| You can find the webpage at: http://marseffect.net/
Notch says the game is still very early in development, but here is a list of things we hope to include:
Hard science fiction.
Lots of engineering.
Fully working computer system.
Space battles against the AI or other players.
A game ending that makes sense.
Abandoned ships full of loot.
Waist high walls.
Seamlessly landing on planets.
Advanced economy system.
Mining, trading, and looting.
Another article here: http://techzwn.com/mars-effect-announced-by-notch-a-free-roaming-space-sim/
My reaction: Hopefully not April Fools.... but it probably is. |
| Actually, one of the most interesting bits is the emulated 16 bit computer on the spaceship. Apparently it will be fully programmable. Notch posted some specs on his blog.
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(Again, hoping not an April fools joke) |
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I now heartily await the news of Half-Life 3 and it's imminent release! =P |
| Obvious April fools joke.
He will be sued for that font. |
| Copyright April 1 2012? That obvious? Unfortunately, I think this is a fairly elaborate April Fool's joke. |
| Yeah, its probably a joke, or at least parts of it are. Notch was talking about a space-sim game a couple of weeks back and hes gone through some trouble to make his 16-bit cpu. So maybe some of it is true. |
| April Fools for sure. A name and font like that? A dead give away, really. |
| Yeah, gotta say this one is pretty obvious. Just read that article, it's oozing satire. I do like the "An ending that makes sense" as irony. Minecraft's 'ending' makes no sense.
"After playing around with names like 'Elight', 'Wind Commander', and 'Steve Online', we finally settled on the very catchy name "Mars Effect".
EDIT: Here ran by this today, seemed appropriate.
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| Melon Hunter:
Copyright April 1 2012? That obvious? Unfortunately, I think this is a fairly elaborate April Fool's joke.
Yeah, I wish he'd been a tad more subtle with it. Would have been more entertaining that way. |
| Obvious April fools aside, it'd be great if the rest were true! |
| "Mars Effect" is obviously an joke. Notch has been working on stuff recently. He posts about fairly regularly on Twitter at least... or it's a very elaborate joke. |
| Will it have a proper ending? |
| castlewise:
You can find the webpage at: http://marseffect.net/
Notch says the game is still very early in development, but here is a list of things we hope to include:
Hard science fiction.
Lots of engineering.
Fully working computer system.
Space battles against the AI or other players.
A game ending that makes sense.
Abandoned ships full of loot.
Waist high walls.
Seamlessly landing on planets.
Advanced economy system.
Mining, trading, and looting.
Another article here: http://techzwn.com/mars-effect-announced-by-notch-a-free-roaming-space-sim/
My reaction: Hopefully not April Fools.... but it probably is.
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Notch: "Hey Bethesda, see what I did there?" |
| An April fools joke or a lawsuit waiting to happen. One or another |
| Totally not an April fools joke. Nope. No way.
:P |
| Lilani:
Notch: "Hey Bethesda, see what I did there?"
Do you mean BioWare? Umm, because Bethesda also works, I just don't get it in this context. |
| DoPo:
Lilani:
Notch: "Hey Bethesda, see what I did there?"
Do you mean BioWare? Umm, because Bethesda also works, I just don't get it in this context.
Yeah, I suppose it works with both. I sort of saw this as Notch poking some fun at Bethesda by putting Bioware in a similar (though facetious) situation. |
| castlewise:
You can find the webpage at: http://marseffect.net/
Notch says the game is still very early in development, but here is a list of things we hope to include:
Hard science fiction.
Lots of engineering.
Fully working computer system.
Space battles against the AI or other players.
A game ending that makes sense.
Abandoned ships full of loot.
Waist high walls.
Seamlessly landing on planets.
Advanced economy system.
Mining, trading, and looting.
Another article here: http://techzwn.com/mars-effect-announced-by-notch-a-free-roaming-space-sim/
My reaction: Hopefully not April Fools.... but it probably is.
Sounds completely original... wait a second. Nah it's good that they have a sense of humour, although the real april fools joke would be if this was real and not a joke. |
| That's the second time today i've seen a Dev take a stab at BioWare.
Bioware, the butt of April Fools jokes for 2012. |
| I would actually play something with some of those ideas, lol ^_^ |
| castlewise:
SNIP
Ahem...
"GAME NAME HAS BEEN CHOSEN
After several weeks of trying to come up with a good name for the game, we finally decided not to learn from previous experiences and pick a name that's already kind of in use by a huge existing franchise.
After playing around with names like "Elight", "Wind Commander", and "Steve Online", we finally settled on the very catchy name "Mars Effect".
- Notch"
Did you honestly entertain, even for a second, the idea that this was not an April Fools joke? |
You can find the webpage at: http://marseffect.net/
Notch says the game is still very early in development, but here is a list of things we hope to include:
Hard science fiction.
Lots of engineering.
Fully working computer system.
Space battles against the AI or other players.
A game ending that makes sense.
Abandoned ships full of loot.
Waist high walls.
Seamlessly landing on planets.
Advanced economy system.
Mining, trading, and looting.
Another article here: http://techzwn.com/mars-effect-announced-by-notch-a-free-roaming-space-sim/
My reaction: Hopefully not April Fools.... but it probably is.