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    Notch Coding Minicraft!

    simme337

    1 HN recommender · recommended in 3 months, 2012–2022

    YouTube

    18:32 · 269K views · Dec 19, 2011

    Footage of Notch (Markus Persson) live-coding his Minicraft game in Java during a Ludum Dare 48-hour game jam. It shows a working game developer building a complete small game from scratch.

    HN points to it as an example of Notch's famous live-coding sessions, which drew many early Minecraft fans.

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    3 comments from Hacker News

    1. @thebigshaneFeb 2012· in “Hackathons are nonsense”

      Watching `notch` live-code is also very popular. [1]: [LINK] Making Metagun [2]: this video Making MiniCraft [3]: [LINK]

      RecommendsView on HN
    2. @deaddodoMar 2022· in “Hot-code reloading on macOS/arm64 with Zig”

      If you watch some of Notch’s old game jam live streams; this is exactly how he used his Java environment and is probably why he was so invested in it. You can see some examples here when he just tests logic changes: this video (Though, he restarts often since he’s editing preloaded assets also)

      CitesView on HN
    3. @PeterStuerNov 2019· in “Nostalgia for Minecraft”

      As I recall Minecraft's snowball started with geek dads watching Notch live coding and buying the game for their kids. this video

      CitesView on HN