Minceraft A Put Up Mortem

We have tried including secrets to the sport before. Small things, like obscure crafting recipes or bizarre habits, and all the pieces at all times gets found out immediately. No matter how obscure we make a brand new characteristic, it is fully documented inside hours of a brand new release. That is awesome, and a great instance of how devoted some Minecraft players are, however it additionally means we won't actually cover anything good in the sport even when we tried.

So some time in the past, I did some intentionally obscure code in the title screen to change two letters round, making it say "Minceraft" (previous operating gag, there's even a "minceraft" mockup t shirt design we did) instead of " Minecraft " on every 10000th recreation launch or so, and nobody discovered it! I was so joyful about that, I lastly knew something about the sport the players didn't know.

Flash forward to this GDC just a few days ago, I am doing an interview with Chris Hecker, and he asks me if there's something no person has found in the game, and that i say sure. I should've said no, but I said yes. Then I start getting emails and tweets about it, individuals start getting excited, and figuring out how minor the key is, I attempt to tell individuals it's a very minor secret. That seems to fuel the flames. A reporter from a well known gaming site desires to run an article on it, and that i tell him not to. Getting individuals hyped up about an intentional typo is not actually a superb strategy to spend everyone's time.

There's a lot of cool stuff to be taught from this, though. One is that it Is feasible to cover stuff in plain sight, but as soon as folks go on the lookout for it, they will find it. One other factor is that folks appear to wish to get excited over things, even if you inform them it is nothing main.

I am impressed and relieved you found it. I will not comment on it outdoors of this subreddit.