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41 Shooters That Were Made In Just A Week (And Look Pretty Good!)
Held earlier in the month, 7DFPS was a game jam that have people seven days to make a first-person shooter. Since that’s nowhere near enough time to program suitable hinge-shooting mechanics, people had to get creative, with impressive results.
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Minecraft Creator’s Latest Is…A Zombie Game (And It’s Free)
Game jams are fantastic for short, focused games. Couple that with Notch’s ability to make polished gems for jams, and what you get is Shambles — an FPS zombie game developed for the 7DFPS challenge.
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Humans Create Program That Builds Its Own Super Mario Bros Levels
Manuel Kerssemakers, Jeppe Tuxen, Julian Togelius and Georgios Yannakakis have done something remarkable. They’ve created a computer program that does Nintendo’s job. Sort of.
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Notch Made $101 Million On Minecraft Last Year, May Buy A Car With It
In 2012, Minecraft creator Markus “Notch” Persson took home 640 million krona — $US101 million — in licencing fees for the game, according to a report in the Swedish financial press. What’s he going to do with that kind of money? Well, he tells Reddit, he may finally get a car.