I do like that Total Miner is on console. Because Minecraft still used the original code of Infiniminer. I'm not sure how I feel about that to be honest. One argument I've seen is that Minecraft was inspired from Infiniminer while Total Miner is a copy. While yes, Total Miner: Forge is apparently a blatant rip off of Minecraft, why can't Total Miner use Infiniminer's source code to make something similar? Having just watched Simon and Hannah from the Yogscast play Total Miner: Forge, I decided to read the predictable comments about how much of a rip off Total is from MC from the Notch Defense Force (From here on abbreviated to NDF), and the equally predictable retorts from the anti Minecraft, Notch, mainstream force about how Minecraft copied Infiniminer. It shows you a precise point in gaming history, the one from where a mastodong rose and became a phenomenon.So Escapist's boys and girls, let's talk. Kind of like how fossils are found in museums. To wrap it up, Infiniminer is kept alive for historical reasons. Playing alone however, Infiniminer is barely any kind of fun. Gameplay is simple and it can be engaging if you find a few people to play with. It’s totally playable but it’s just not appealing.Ĭreating a server and configuring what little there is takes a few seconds and you can start playing shortly after. Development for it was killed shortly after its release and it’s still rich in bugs. Anyone can create a server but the game doesn’t attract people. The downside to Infiniminer is that no one really plays it. One player can go ahead and find mineral deposits, another can build the bank and surround it with force fields while a third player can plant TNT charges for fun and demolition. Ideally, a team had to have all four classes but there are workarounds. There are four classes to play as, miner, prospector, engineer and sapper, each one with a designated role in a team. Two teams had to race each other in a procedurally generated world, mining ore and converting it into cash until one reached the required winning amount. In the original, things were a lot simpler. Infiniminer gave way to a very large number of open world sandbox games. The one that started the block-based sandbox madness Unfortunately, this little sandbox game didn't make it in the real world for too long because its source code got extracted from the binaries and from that point on interest for its development faded until it disappeared entirely. It’s also the one from which Minecraft was inspired. Meet Infiniminer, a great game idea that was about team based competitive mining.
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