The Infinite Leap: Analyzing Minecraft inf-20100618
Clara The Infinite Leap: Analyzing Minecraft inf-20100618 From 181 files to 341. From fixed worlds to infinite ones. From sandbox to survival. Photo by Fauve Dereyne on Unsplash On June 18,…
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RustCraft: Analyzing Minecraft c0.30_01c — Classic Arrives
The Classic Arrives: Analyzing Minecraft c0.30_01c Seven months of silence. 181 files. The browser game the world remembers. On December 21, 2009, Notch released Minecraft Classic c0.30_01c. The last version…
RustCraft: Analyzing Minecraft c0.0.13a — The Deobfuscation
The Deobfuscation: Analyzing Minecraft c0.0.13a The version where Notch gave the names back, and we learned something about build pipelines. On May 30, 2009 — nine days after c0.0.13a_03 introduced…
RustCraft: Analyzing Minecraft c0.0.13a_03 — Water, Lava, and Obfuscation
The Obfuscation Wall: Analyzing Minecraft c0.0.13a_03 The version where the source code stopped being readable, and the world gained water. On May 21, 2009 — five days after Minecraft got…
RustCraft: Analyzing Minecraft c0.0.11a — It Has a Name
The Naming: Analyzing Minecraft c0.0.11a The version where RubyDung died and Minecraft was born. On May 16, 2009 — the same day rd-161348 shipped — Notch released another version. This…
RustCraft: Analyzing Minecraft rd-161348 — The Restoration
The Revert: Analyzing rd-161348 The version where Notch decided that yesterday’s experiment was wrong and today’s job was to undo it. One day after shipping the smallest Minecraft version to…
RustCraft: Analyzing Minecraft rd-160052 — The Pruning
The Art of Subtraction: Analyzing rd-160052 The version where Notch learned that removing features is a feature. One day after building the largest single-version expansion in Minecraft’s early history —…
RustCraft: Analyzing Minecraft rd-132328 — The First Zombies
The First Mob: Analyzing Minecraft rd-132328 Six hours after inventing the voxel world, Notch populated it. On May 13, 2009, Markus “Notch” Persson released rd-132211 — the earliest known build…
RustCraft: Analyzing Minecraft rd-20090515 — It’s Minecraft Now
It’s Minecraft Now: Analyzing rd-20090515 The biggest single-version delta in Minecraft’s early history, and the one where it gets its name. One day after the first zombie stumbled across a…
RustCraft: Analyzing Minecraft rd-132211 — Where It All Began
Archaeology of a Phenomenon: Analyzing Minecraft rd-132211 The best-selling video game of all time started as 1,562 lines of Java in a 26KB JAR file. On May 13, 2009, Markus…