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Comment by NelsonMinar | Hacker News Reader

Back in 2010 Notch promised

> Once sales start dying and a minimum time has passed, I will release the game source code as some kind of open source.

https://web.archive.org/web/20100301103851/http://www.minecr...

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Notch has said he would do many things and rarely follows through with them. I'm still waiting for 0x10c.

He sold the game to Microsoft, his promises kind of don't matter anymore.

I think you meant to reply to the parent comment, I never mentioned Minecraft

> Once sales start dying

Has that part ever happened?

TBF sales didn't start dying

The only upside of that game was that I taught myself assembly because of it. Even though it never released

Sales are still good though- right? It’s the no paid iOS game.

I'm pretty sure A Minecraft Movie has already made more money that the game had made when he made that promise.

Back then he couldn't have foreseen the size of the money printing factory that the game would become.

I remember when Minecraft was sold for $2 billion and people thought it was madness and would never make the money back.

Since then they've made that back on game copies alone, and god only knows how much from movie/merch rights and microtransactions.

Notch has said a lot of things over the years. Many after the sale to Microsoft were not so great. Suddenly without purpose and more money than he would ever need in a life time, he found a new purpose that wasn't so great.

A lot of Qanon rants and other conspiracy things. Just goes to show you that some times it is best you don't get what you wish for.

What is he up to recently? Did he come around?

I have been following him, and I think a lot of the claims about him have been exaggerated. He stopped being so edgy on twitter after watching the "this is phil fish" video. It is an interesting watch and applicable to notch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmTUW-owa2w

He is developing a new voxel-like game called "levers and chests", and before that he has shown us a few cool webgl demos I find interesting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYMy7TPsNd0

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