A redditor called Ameobea is making a terraria like game for the TI-84 Plus SE.

Reddit thread:
http://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/183u2g/i_made_minecraft_for_graphing_calculator/

Direct video link:
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Thoughts?

Exacty. It does not deserve the attention it gets if you look at all those other awesome( also basic) games out there.
I'm not really a z80 basic programmer, but I'm pretty sure I can have the same result on my 89 after an hour programming(probably less).
It reminds me on the "Skyrim" thing. Got famous undeserved.

Someone should tell him to come here to see how he reacts in front of true coders

OK ok ok. Clam down guys. I renamed it. Sorry. It only has 122 "upvotes" it's not like it's internationally famous. I saw this and wanted to share.

122

It's okay Augs. But did you see the other 2D ports? If you search "Minecraft" on ticalc.org several results come up, including ones with an animated screenshot.

Also Yeong, that's kinda on pause for now. And I think that when I pick it back up, I'll probably create a more RPG-ish something of it using the same engine(perhaps even minicraft?).
People would know that if they read my blog.

Yeah it would be nice if we invited him here. Maybe he might be interested in doing further calc programming and learn new stuff

As far as his game go I agree that games should not be named after popular games just to inflate your download count, unless it lives up to the original game name, although seeing this guy isn't part of a calc site he might not be aware of this mentality in the community. There were better Terraria/Minecraft releases in the past on ticalc.org, although his game doesn't really look that bad compared to a lot of junk I have seen. It can just be annoying when big calc games get like 1000 views on Youtube, while a Skyrim menu-based game with very few graphics get 800000 just because it's called Skyrim. In the guy's Terraria clone, graphics could be improved, but in TI-BASIC it would be slow, so he might have to use an hook-based sprite lib or an alternate language. Hopefully if someone invite him he doesn't just stick to Reddit and come here

Of course I rather prefer that we remain respectful to new coders, though, especially considering many of us have named games after a big franchise in the past and they weren't necessarily all that great. If he comes here we could show him examples of what he can do on a calculator such as SolidFrame 3D and Serenity (a pure BASIC example of what kind of graphics you can have)

I actually posted in his thread, not bashing the game but mostly saying that a lot more can be done on the calc and I hope he updates his game with more stuff and graphics.

I posted a link to http://ourl.ca/6869 as an example of what he could do. Also when I wrote my post above I totally forgot about how fast dual layer ASCII sprites could be in BASIC using no assembly code inside the game!



But again, this was made by Builderboy, and he managed to get 45 years of TI-BASIC experience in 3 hours.

Two letters combined together, except that in his game, the 2nd letter is shifted right by 1 pixel and each row of text are shown at 7 pixels intervals instead of 8.

This is Ameobea, creator of the game and reddit post that has become such a hot debate so suddenly :p

I didn't expect it to be popular or anything. I'm NOT trying to compete with minecraft or anything stupid like that - its just that me and my friends all enjoy the game and I've been playing around with programming on the graphing calculator so decided to share what I've made. It's neither advanced nor revolutionary. After all, it's a one-bit pixel-based terrain generator, made by a highschool student with no formal instruction in programming. However, I understand your sentiments completely. Upon reading your posts, I can get your opinions and see where they're coming from.

I have another program I'm working on that generates caves; I was thinking about adding it on. I've made several other programs in the past, for the sole reason of distributing to my classmates and for the fun and accomplishment of writing them like minesweeper, tic-tac-toe against AI, memory match, etc. I really like pixel-by-pixel graphics, and that seems to stretch the limits of BASIC as I know it.

Anyway, this attention was unexpected and I honestly NEVER meant to cause conflict.  I'd name it something else, but mimecraft was what it was based on so... why not name it minecraft?  And it isn't even a full-scaled game!