06-05-2011, 12:50 PM
Funny... That's not the story the professors told me...
but... what does that have to do with Terraria?
Unless you're saying something about them "copying" things from other games.
If that's the case, I'm not sure the situation is exactly the same, since Narbacular Drop was simply an entirely unpolished and frustrating student game, whereas Minecraft is a wildly popular game that has already sold over 1.5 million copies. One took a great idea from an unknown game and made it better, and the other took a good idea from a popular game and then added a bunch of unrelated stuff alongside it.
Though, I personally don't really think copying a few ideas is all that bad anyway.
but... what does that have to do with Terraria?
Unless you're saying something about them "copying" things from other games.
If that's the case, I'm not sure the situation is exactly the same, since Narbacular Drop was simply an entirely unpolished and frustrating student game, whereas Minecraft is a wildly popular game that has already sold over 1.5 million copies. One took a great idea from an unknown game and made it better, and the other took a good idea from a popular game and then added a bunch of unrelated stuff alongside it.
Though, I personally don't really think copying a few ideas is all that bad anyway.