Friday, December 23, 2011
Christmas Break!
Today will be the start of my Christmas break on this blog. I will be back on Jan. 2nd. See you guys in 2012 :)
Wednesday, December 21, 2011
LEGO Minecraft explained
I did not speak much of this in a recent blog post of mine, so I decided to do an entire post on the subject.
Earlier this year, two amazing people posted ideas on the website, LEGOcuusoo about the Popular indie game called "Minecraft" and both ideas got some very nice responses from the community. Then, on 12/05/2011, Mojang AB released the official idea for the product.
(Discription on the idea page)
"We’re excited about all of the LEGO Minecraft ideas on LEGO CUUSOO. Thanks to our community for your great inspiration!
Seeing LEGO Minecraft sets is also our dream, so we linked to one of the projects. It’s clear to us that there are many creative people with good ideas for this and we want to throw our own hat into the ring and start this project to bring the best LEGO Minecraft builders together.
Minecraft is about placing blocks to build anything you can imagine in the virtual world. You can build anything you imagine with LEGO bricks in the physical world. Minecraft and LEGO were meant to be together.
We’ve invited a couple of the LEGO fans behind the earlier LEGO Minecraft projects, suparMacho and koalaexpert, to collaborate with us to shape the idea. We’re also interested in your ideas, and will select the best LEGO Minecraft models to also join our efforts.
As the official Mojang LEGO Minecraft project, we will work with the LEGO Group to secure a licensing agreement and donate the 1% royalty from LEGO CUUSOO to charity. Let’s make LEGO Minecraft happen together!! =D"
In less than 48 hours, Mojang's idea got the 10,000 supporters needed to make it become reality.
(LEGOcuusoo had this to say.)
"Okay, we get it. You have a passionate community who wants to see Minecraft themed LEGO sets. It just took three server outages to prove it to us, but yeah, we're listening. ;-) We never expected a project to meet the threshold this quickly while still in beta. It took our first launch, the Shinkai 6500, 420 days to reach 1,000 votes in Japan. Hayabusa took 57 days to 1,000. With the start of Mojang’s Minecraft CUUSOO project it took just 48 hours to get 10,000 worldwide. We admire your passion as a community first and foremost of Minecraft fans, and second as LEGO fans.
We’re also pleased with how Mojang and the builders behind the original fan-created Minecraft project, “koalaexpert” and “suparMacho,” worked together in a collaborative and giving spirit. It’s a great story, and our hats are off to you for that.
So, without further adieu, we congratulate you on achieving 10,000 supporters and officially advance this project to the Review phase.
What happens now?
This project moves from the Idea stage to the Review stage. A “LEGO Jury” composed of designers, product managers, and other key team members will examine the idea. We'll build concept models and determine if the concept meets our high standards for what it takes to be a LEGO product, including playability, safety, and fit with the LEGO brand.
This sounds obvious to you as a Minecraft fan (Minecraft blocks and LEGO bricks look similar, so of course it's a fit), but every LEGO product goes through a process like this and must meet the same standards.
The review is a 1-2 week process. When finished, we make a "go/no go" decision to develop and sell Minecraft LEGO products. We will inform you of our decision, and if green-lighted, this project goes into the longest phase of the project; the Development phase. During this time, LEGO model designers refine the product and develop it for release, we create the product materials (box, instructions, marketing), and get everything ready for a production run. This takes several months."
I will bring you more detail in the next coming weeks or so, but in the mean time, you should go and play minecraft of just get a few lego sets and get building :D
Earlier this year, two amazing people posted ideas on the website, LEGOcuusoo about the Popular indie game called "Minecraft" and both ideas got some very nice responses from the community. Then, on 12/05/2011, Mojang AB released the official idea for the product.
(Discription on the idea page)
"We’re excited about all of the LEGO Minecraft ideas on LEGO CUUSOO. Thanks to our community for your great inspiration!
Seeing LEGO Minecraft sets is also our dream, so we linked to one of the projects. It’s clear to us that there are many creative people with good ideas for this and we want to throw our own hat into the ring and start this project to bring the best LEGO Minecraft builders together.
Minecraft is about placing blocks to build anything you can imagine in the virtual world. You can build anything you imagine with LEGO bricks in the physical world. Minecraft and LEGO were meant to be together.
We’ve invited a couple of the LEGO fans behind the earlier LEGO Minecraft projects, suparMacho and koalaexpert, to collaborate with us to shape the idea. We’re also interested in your ideas, and will select the best LEGO Minecraft models to also join our efforts.
As the official Mojang LEGO Minecraft project, we will work with the LEGO Group to secure a licensing agreement and donate the 1% royalty from LEGO CUUSOO to charity. Let’s make LEGO Minecraft happen together!! =D"
In less than 48 hours, Mojang's idea got the 10,000 supporters needed to make it become reality.
(LEGOcuusoo had this to say.)
"Okay, we get it. You have a passionate community who wants to see Minecraft themed LEGO sets. It just took three server outages to prove it to us, but yeah, we're listening. ;-) We never expected a project to meet the threshold this quickly while still in beta. It took our first launch, the Shinkai 6500, 420 days to reach 1,000 votes in Japan. Hayabusa took 57 days to 1,000. With the start of Mojang’s Minecraft CUUSOO project it took just 48 hours to get 10,000 worldwide. We admire your passion as a community first and foremost of Minecraft fans, and second as LEGO fans.
We’re also pleased with how Mojang and the builders behind the original fan-created Minecraft project, “koalaexpert” and “suparMacho,” worked together in a collaborative and giving spirit. It’s a great story, and our hats are off to you for that.
So, without further adieu, we congratulate you on achieving 10,000 supporters and officially advance this project to the Review phase.
What happens now?
This project moves from the Idea stage to the Review stage. A “LEGO Jury” composed of designers, product managers, and other key team members will examine the idea. We'll build concept models and determine if the concept meets our high standards for what it takes to be a LEGO product, including playability, safety, and fit with the LEGO brand.
This sounds obvious to you as a Minecraft fan (Minecraft blocks and LEGO bricks look similar, so of course it's a fit), but every LEGO product goes through a process like this and must meet the same standards.
The review is a 1-2 week process. When finished, we make a "go/no go" decision to develop and sell Minecraft LEGO products. We will inform you of our decision, and if green-lighted, this project goes into the longest phase of the project; the Development phase. During this time, LEGO model designers refine the product and develop it for release, we create the product materials (box, instructions, marketing), and get everything ready for a production run. This takes several months."
I will bring you more detail in the next coming weeks or so, but in the mean time, you should go and play minecraft of just get a few lego sets and get building :D
Sunday, December 18, 2011
News this week
Sorry i'm late guys I just forgot. :P
- Minethon took off on Friday and has made over 3,000 dollars USD. Minethon
- Mojang started Hiring but only for Developers atm. Notch's blog post
- Cobalt finally went up on the website and the alpha is only 9.95€. Get your Alpha copy here.
- New minecraft snapshot was released you can find all the details here.
- Notch hops on the Ludum Dare copetition. you can find his entry here.
(if I missed anything at all, please let me know since I couldn't find much of anything)
That's your news for this week and remember to check back every week for another news recap :)
Thursday, December 15, 2011
Minethon 72 Hour live event
Minethon is a Child's Play event committed to raising money for children in need. There, they will be playing 72 hours of non-stop survival Minecraft via Ustream All to help charity. Child's Play donates video games, toys, books, and other fun things to kids in hospitals. It's a great effort. The founders of Minethon are hoping to raise $10,000 to help the charity reach its goal. There will be lots of contests and prizes for both donors and viewers! It'll start at 10 AM on December 16, 2011 (GMT -8:00 Pacific Time) and end at 10 AM on December 19, 2011. My friends over at The Shaft Podcast will be there as well to show their support. I myself will be in the chat through the event so you can come hang out with me and the other great people in there :) cya there!
Friday, December 9, 2011
2011 Inside Gaming Awards results
On Dec. 9th, the 2011 inside gaming awards took place and these were winners! I know this isn't minecraft related, but I just thought I would share the award results with you guys :D
Hope you guys enjoyed looking at this list and I can't wait for the next IGAs :D
P.S. the after party looked awesome :)
- Game of the Year - The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
- Best Trailer - Dead Island (official Announcement Trailer)
- Best Multiplayer - Gears of War 3
- Best Narrative - Portal 2
- Best Art Direction - Deus Ex: Human Revolution
- Best Animation - Batman arkham city
- Best Game Cinematography - Uncharted 3 Drake's Deception
- Best Indie Game - Bastion
- Most Compelling Character - wheatley (portal 2)
- Best DLC - Old World Blues (Fallout New Vegas)
- Best Downloadable Game - Bastion
- Most Original Game - Rock of Ages
- Best Original Score - Bastion
- Best Sound Design - Dead Space 2
- Gamer's Choice - The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
- MACHINIMA CHANNEL AWARDS:
- Respawn Channel Award - Gears of War 3
- Sports Channel Award - FIFA 12
- Realm Channel Award - The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
Hope you guys enjoyed looking at this list and I can't wait for the next IGAs :D
P.S. the after party looked awesome :)
News this week
There have been many things going on this week in the minecraft world.
- Jeb steps up as lead developer for minecraft while notch decides to work on different projects.
- Minecraft snapshot 11w49a was released for testing. you can find everything you need to know about it here.
- Mojang set a new record on the LEGOcuusoo website(here) by getting 10,000 votes on their LEGOminecraft idea in only 48 hours
- The Minecraft Mondays show is now two episodes a week instead of one a week.
please check back every week for all the news and updates happening in minecraft :)
Sunday, December 4, 2011
Welcome to the Journal of the Minecraft Ninja!
Welcome to My Journal that's not really a journal just more of a place to share my youtube content with you :) right now, you can find me at http://www.youtube.com/rapidninja42 for minecraft and soon to come Elder Scrolls gameplay! cya :D
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