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Creator Says If FortressCraft Is A Ripoff, So Is Minecraft

The creator of FortressCraft resents the allegation he simply copied Minecraft when his game released over the Xbox Live Indie Games channel about a year ago. “There’s nothing that FortressCraft shares with Minecraft that it does not also share with Infiniminer,” Adam Sawkins, FortressCraft‘s creator, told Eurogamer, “which pre-dates Minecraft.”

August 11, 2011
Xbox

FortressCraft Breaks The $1 Million Barrier On Xbox Live Indie Games

Last year, Minecraft made about a zillion kroner in the time it takes to nuke a Hot Pocket. This year, FortressCraft, the Minecraft knockoff homage on the Xbox Live Indie Games channel, has now bagged a cool million inside of the first six months it was available on the service.

June 2, 2011
Xbox

When Online Gaming Goes Wrong, You Don’t Need To Get SWAT Involved

A disagreement over an Xbox Live Indie game has resulted in what may be the ultimate grief, with one gamer sending a SWAT team to another gamer’s home after phoning in a bogus murder-suicide call to police.

April 19, 2011
Xbox

Surprise, "Minecraft" Is A Big Hit On The Xbox 360

FortressCraft, a new game on the Xbox 360 which is, to put it kindly, borrowing gameplay elements from indie smash Minecraft, has proven about as popular as you’d expect, given you can’t actually get Minecraft on the Xbox 360.

April 9, 2011
Xbox

MineCraft-Inspired FortressCraft Is Building Excitement On XBLA

‘While it may look and smell like Mojang’s hit PC building game MineCraft, ProjectorGames’ FortressCraft, now available via Xbox Live Indie Games, is a slightly different animal. Is that a good thing, or a bad thing?

February 23, 2011
Xbox

This Is Not Minecraft For The Xbox 360, But It’s Pretty Close

It looks like Minecraft and plays like Minecraft, but this is definitely not Minecraft. This is FortressCraft, a cooperative block-building title coming next month to Xbox Live Indie Games. See? No relation whatsoever.

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