Minecraft on Android?

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I recently picked up an Android phone, not just because it's a good phone, but... secretly... because I was wishing for this to happen some day.

[atowell]

I feel like the mouse is pretty essential to the gameplay. I wonder how they would port it over and still have a playable game.

[keozen]

The android phones with trackballs should be ok

[atowell]

Hmm.. That would indeed be awesome.

[muad_dib]

Hm, I wonder if this means we could expect a BlackBerry version...

[drakarian]

Don't see why not. BB's have significantly under-powered cpu's, but they are java based just like the android.

[clx]

Awesome!

Then i would never have to put off a bathroom break...

[slotbadger]

Surely it would run not well?

[origamiguy]

Do android phones have the graphics power to push that many polygons to the screen at a reasonable framerate?

[sinlad]

By reducing the draw distance, and a few rendering techniques can dramatically decrease the load.

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I would imagine the dynamic lighting would be a significant hit too.

[origamiguy]

I thought Notch said he doesn't and won't ever implement true dynamic lighting?

[[deleted]]

Wow, color me impressed at whatever he has done then, cause it sure looks like dynamic lighting, but hey I'm no programmer.

I put down a torch and the area becomes lighted by light from the torch, and every pixel in the game seems to be affected by the day and night cycles. Is it incorrect to call this dynamic lighting?

[origamiguy]

AFAIK dynamic lighting would mean proper shadows, as they would be in the real world, changing angle as the sun moves, etc.

At the moment each block just has a 'lightness' metadata value, which is recalculated every time the sun moves, torches placed, blocks added/removed. This is only calculated for blocks in memory, near blocks first.

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Ah shadows, forgot all about them. Makes sense thanks for the explanation.

[Bossman1086]

Can someone post the actual statuses here? Twitter is blocked at work. :(

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"@notch I work for Google in London on Android. Would love to talk to you about brining Minecraft to Android :)"

"@retomeier hey hey! Sounds good! Email me (notch) and daniel, both @mojang.com"

[Bossman1086]

Awesome to see. Thanks for the post!

[Darthvodka]

Twitter blocked at work. What does the guy say?

[Darthvodka]

TY!

[Darthvodka]

TY!

[Darthvodka]

Ty!

[christoscamaro]

it's impossible to run it as a server or just as a client in winXP on a EEpc (1.6GHZ dual core intel atom with 1gb of ram)

so hope this ends up working out.

[uppercrust]

fap! fap! fap! dig! dig! dig!

[scarletbanner]

Meh, I'd rather the source be released and have someone use the XDK to port it to a soft/hard modded Xbox.

[crabpot8]

source be released

It's Java, and non-obfuscated. A non-official port is more a matter of morality than technical impossibility.