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If anything, it seems similar to Terraria. I'm not going to call it a clone because I personally find the term derogatory. I'd rather call it a 2D platform sandbox game that has similarities to Terraria but still unique.

A clone of Minecraft in my books is more FortressCraft / UberBlox / Manic_Digger.

Congratulations to the OP though. Overall looks pretty good.

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Yep it's definitely influenced by Terraria and has similar mechanics. But I see these set of mechanics as forming the base primitives of the game, like running and shooting in Doom and Half Life, selecting and targeting in starcraft and c&c, or pointing-and-clicking in maniac mansion, etc. Hopefully I'll be able to colour this game enough so that people don't just write it off based on the core mechanics. :)

You avoided using the term "clone" because it's derogatory and then applied it to three other games... (?)

Yes. I should have added an additional statement that these games actually promote themselves as clones.

UberBlox

"Im making a kinda of Minecraft Clone"

https://www.allegro.cc/forums/thread/605337

Manic Digger

"an open source clone of minecraft"

https://github.com/henon/manic_digger

I made a mistake with FortressCraft. After reading the Wiki apparently there was a dispute between themselves and Minecraft.

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