Bab 3: 03 - Minecraft is ready
"It's finally ready…" Alex said in a tired voice as he finished reviewing the game thoroughly.
He had been awake for 21 hours developing Minecraft and reviewing until he could no longer find any Bugs.
"It would be nice to actually have lots of Gaming Points to be able to let the system play the game using just my memory... unfortunately my remaining 50 points are way off the 50,000 points needed to be able to do that..." Alex sighed as he fiddled with the computer .
In the [Game Developer ] program, there was a [Test ] button. Alex couldn't think about how the game would be after being submitted, he was really looking forward to testing the game right now, but the fatigue he was feeling was very heavy, to the point that he found it difficult even to go to the bathroom.
So, after washing away the dirty cutlery, which he used to eat the rest of the rabbit he had hunted, Alex lay down on his bed and slept very peacefully.
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The next day, Alex woke up excited to test the game. First he put some wood to burn to warm him up, and enthusiastically pressed the [Launch ] button in the program.
In the blink of an eye, Alex found himself in a completely different place. Instead of the small cabin he'd lived in for the last month, surrounded by pine trees and lots of snow, this time Alex was finally feeling warm again.
"This…this is magic!" He yelled excitedly as he looked around curiously.
There was green grass, oak trees, sheep, cows, everything he had imagined was in front of him.
The only problem that made him feel a little uncomfortable was that the whole world had something different... everything was square! But unlike the minecraft he saw through his computer screen, this time everything around him was square, it was like the whole world was squared to match itself.
With emotion, Alex ran towards a tree and did something he always imagined it would be like.
*Punch*
Alex punched a tree! But instead of what he imagined, the trunk of the tree did not break, but began to show cracks.
*Punch, Punch, Punch *
After three more punches, the tree trunk actually broke, and just as Alex imagined the tree remained in place, floating as if nothing had happened.
The experience of seeing this happening through a computer screen and making it happen with your own arms was completely different.
*Punch, Punch, Punch, Punch *
Alex continued to break trees until something happened. The leaves on the trees began to fall, and between the leaves a bright red apple also fell.
Curious, Alex took the apple and took a bite of it.
"What a divine taste!" He yelled in excitement making his blue shirt sway over the sides.
Finally Alex noticed something different. This should probably be the first thing a person entering this world would notice, but having played minecraft for so many years, Alex just ignored it without realizing how weird it was.
His hand that held the apple was square, his arms were rectangular, when he took his own face, he felt that his face was also square!
As he ran towards a nearby river, Alex saw a very familiar face.
"Steve..." He said shocked.
Looking at one's reflection and seeing Steve was shocking. But unlike playing on the computer monitor, seeing it with your own eyes was strangely…normal.
His eyes moved naturally, his mouth moved naturally, there were square teeth that for some reason could eat the apple well, his hand had fingers that even though they were square also looked natural.
All of this got Alex very excited making him explore everything. He had adapted crafting to work in a more "magical" way. The player still had the inventory, but crafting had been revamped.
Opening the inventory, Alex used his mind to make a cookbook come out. The book contained all the things a player could do with the materials he currently had, and the more different things the player got, the more pages the book would receive.
Initially minecraft didn't have this book, but this made many casual gamers not try to play the game as it was too difficult, so in later versions the developer added something that Alex also did in his game.
Following the recipe given in the book, Alex opened his inventory and took the other item that newbies would receive. A black box with a tool symbol.
The box had nine compartments where the player could place the block miniatures and items they had. By following the recipe in the book and placing the blocks and items in the right places, when closing the box it would glow and when opened again, the finished item would come out of there.
Alex had changed more things in the game to make gameplay more fun for players, but that he was too lazy to test for now.
Seeing that the game was starting to get dark, Alex realized that it had probably been 20 minutes since he entered the game.
As he ate an apple on minecraft, he felt he wasn't hungry, but his body in life really was probably feeling it, so he decided to quit the game for something to eat.
With a satisfied smile, Alex rose from his computer chair and marveled at the system he'd been given.
If he can keep using this system to make more games, the people of the world will go crazy about it. Even he, whoever made the game was dying to play, so who will say other players?
With a smile on his face, Alex used the mouse to click the [Launch ] button.
Under the system, this button would make the game launch on all non-exclusive digital platforms, that is, as long as it wasn't a digital store for a console, or a digital store for a game brand, all stores that accepted developers independents would have his game listed on the shelves as if he had actually signed up to promote his game there.
After hitting [Launch ], Alex decided to look at the system store and see if he could buy some cheap food so he wouldn't have to go hunting any more animals.
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Meanwhile, in an apartment in the suburbs of NY, a chubby young teenager was browsing the world's most famous online game store.
Unfortunately he was very bored. All the games were very similar, it was either a game about Captain America in WWII, or a game where a soldier had to fight Nazis, or worse, a game where the company just wanted to take money from players, making them spend a lot to be able to stay strong.
Ned didn't have the money to play this type of game, so he was always weaker than other players. That's why he gave up on that kind of game.
But no matter where he looked, Ned couldn't find any interesting games to play.
He even went to the "Recently Added" tab, but he couldn't find anything there.
Until he saw something that caught his attention.
Among several war-themed games, there was one game that was standing out a lot for being different.
A pixelart that apparently represented a land, with a name written across the front in square fonts.
[Minecraft ]
Curious, Ned clicked on this different game and saw that the game page didn't have much information. The only information I had was some promotional images of a square man apparently looking after a farm, with pigs, cows, sheep, horses.
"Is this a game where the player is a farmer?" Ned wondered aloud as he became interested.
He had never seen a game where the player was a farmer. He was tired of war games, so watching a game about a farm seemed fun.
Seeing that the price of the game was only $20, he felt it could be worth it, after all if the game could entertain him for a few days it would be enough.
"I just hope this isn't one of those games that sucks the player's money..." He thought as he pressed the [Play ] button.
Bab 4: 04 - Is heaven a square?
When Ned pressed the [Play ] button, he strangely felt a slight dizziness before seeing that everything around him had become clear.
Having been in the dark room for a long time, Ned took a while to adapt to the light.
At this point he was extremely scared!
"Shit, did I die? Will I become a soldier in my next life?! Please nooooo....!!!!!" Ned yelled as he started to cry and knelt on the floor.
But when he knelt down, Ned felt like he was kneeling in grass. Confused, he wiped his own tears and looked around, only to see a very bright and colorful world.
"Is this... is this heaven? Is heaven a square?" He asked himself confused as he tried to understand what was going on.
Until he saw a screen floating in front of him.
Curious, Ned approached and saw what was written.
[Minecraft ]
[Single Player ]
[Multiplayer - Coming Soon ]
[Quit]
Seeing this Ned was shocked.
"Is this... is this the game?!" Nervously he hit the exit button, and feeling the dizziness he'd previously felt, but now a little weaker, in a flash Ned found himself in his own room again, with the Minecraft Launcher screen in front of him, with the mouse over the [Play ] button.
"I returned?" He wondered as he looked around his room, which was just as he had left it before he left.
Ned was scared of this game, but like a good nerd, Ned was even more curious about it. After all, if this was a game, it was his duty to complete the game completely. Even more so because it was such a different game, he was tempted to dig deeper and see what would happen.
Then with a confident expression, like a warrior going to an unknown war, Ned pressed [Play ] again.
When he opened his eyes again, Ned found himself in the same green, colorful, and square world he was in before, but this time he didn't press [Exit ], but rather [Single Player ].
When he hit that button, the screen vanished in front of him, making Ned look around curiously.
The first thing he noticed was that his arms had turned square. 'It's probably to match the world, right?' Ned asked himself mentally.
On his back he felt a backpack, so out of curiosity he grabbed the backpack and opened it.
But instead of seeing what was inside, Ned saw a screen floating in front of him, with a book and a box, and several empty spaces.
Curious, he reached into his backpack and reached for the book.
Magically the book came out of his hand.
Opening the book carefully, Ned began to read the instructions and was a little confused.
While holding the book, Ned walked towards a tree and took a breath before punching the tree.
*Punch*
As soon as he closed his eyes in fear of the pain the punch would bring him, he heard the crunch of bark breaking, but the pain he'd been waiting for didn't come.
More confident now, Ned punched the tree again, and saw that it was even more cracked. Followed by other punches the torso suddenly broke and turned into a small block that floated in front of him.
"Is this floating?" He asked shocked as he ran his square hand between the two trunks to see if there was nothing holding it, but really there was nothing!
Picking up a small floating block, Ned put it in his own backpack and found a diversion.
Not caring what the book was telling him to do, Ned started punching everything, trees, dirt, sand, stone. Everything he punched sometimes broke.
Curious about these little blocks, Ned decided to throw it on the ground and see what happened.
*Bamf*
The small miniature block he was holding suddenly grew and returned to its former size as soon as it hit the ground.
"Woahh!!" Ned was shocked.
He loved playing lego as he had several different lego collections, but he never imagined he could play with such a big lego.
So without thinking twice, Ned started breaking up all the land he saw along the way and started putting the small blocks in his backpack.
When he felt hungry, Ned ate one of the apples that fell from the trees and savored the sweet taste of those fruits.
"If apples in real life were so good, I wouldn't mind going on a diet…" He said in a low voice as he finished eating the apple and prepared to make his first build.
With a confident look, Ned began to toss the blocks of earth to the ground. He had taken many blocks of earth to make this great construction.
*Bamf, Bamf, Bamf*
Several blocks were piling up until they finally formed a large structure that he was proud of.
"This is my castle, and I am the King! King Ned! Mwaahahahaha!" He started to laugh out loud as he looked around.
*Bruuuhhh*
Suddenly, a deep voice was heard near Ned's castle.
Curious, Ned looked around as he wondered. "What is this, is it another player? But I'm playing Single Player...maybe it's an NPC?"
*Bruuuuuhhhh*
The voice got even louder, making Ned a little uneasy.
As long as he played behind a mouse and keyboard, Ned wasn't afraid of NPCs, but now that he was in the game, Ned was getting really scared.
"Who's there?" He yelled as he looked around.
It was completely at night, it was almost impossible to see more than 10 meters away.
This was making Ned even more afraid.
Until Ned finally saw the silhouette that was making the noise, but instead of being relaxed, Ned was terrified.
"Is this a Zombie?!!!!! I thought this was a farm game, why is there a zombie here?!" Ned was horrified. He was scared of real zombies, and now he was seeing a zombie in front of him coming with its arms outstretched like it was going to eat his brain at any moment.
"Shit, shit…" He grabbed his own backpack and pulled out the book to try and see what he was supposed to do. But because it was so dark, Ned couldn't read anything.
He had left the entrance to the castle open, thinking it would be easier for him to pass that way, but who would have thought he had opened the henhouse door for the fox to enter?!
Not knowing what to do, Ned did the only thing he had done so far.
*Punch, Punch, Punch *
Ned began desperately pounding the ground and digging a hole for himself to hide.
When he was completely in the hole, Ned took a miniature earth block and not the top part, getting stuck in a 1x1x2 space.
Ned didn't know it, but by pure instinct he had used the most famous tactic in Alex's previous world for novice players who were afraid to play Minecraft at night, dig a hole and wait until dawn.
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