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is this really live? I mean -- hardly see him pause for thought or anything.

Interesting to see he just uses plain 'ol Eclipse (Eclipse FTW!).

I've watched Notch code numerous times (mostly on Ludum Dare streams) and he's strongly in the always keeps moving camp of developers. He thinks as he goes and isn't scared to backtrack or rip stuff out when he changes his approach.

I imagine that having a live feed of you working also motivates you to avoid procrastinating.

For somebody successful I doubt it matters much.

I participated in Ludum Dare this time and live streamed for a little bit, but the constant knowing that someone was watching me was really distracting so I eventually turned it off and was more constructive.

Yeah it's really live - he's done a lot of work on stuff similar to this so he's probably got a mental checklist of everything that needs to happen. He's pretty good at what he does: making games! Rarely is watching somebody write code entertaining, but he makes it so.

i like his games -- been playing minecraft off-and-on with some friends for years -- but I have to admit, most of his games look very similar. the thing he's working on now looks like it could have been made from in minecraft. Use Craftbukkit or MineForge and you can just add things like new overlays and ui's... bam! new game.

It's probably akin to a many types of artists, like painters. A certain style will always follow. But evolve as you go.

>he's probably got a mental checklist of everything that needs to happen.

I would love to see someone make such a list explicit and then post it as a submission here.

his minicraft certainly was, but also super-engaging

He is using the Dart Editor (an editor using the Eclipse platform written from scratch for Dart support):

https://www.dartlang.org/tools/editor/

Doubt it's "from scratch" -- a lot of projects use Eclipse as the base for their "custom editor" when in reality it's just a bunch of plugins strapped on top of the base Eclipse. (Android editor, CTools editor, etc). You probably can just install the Dart support plugins and get the same features.

Eclipse is a very robust, very flexible editor.

UPDATE - Here seems to be the plugin: https://www.dartlang.org/tools/eclipse-plugin/

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