“I got 99 codes…”
Notch released 99 codes for the not-yet-out Minecraft for Xbox 360 today… sort of. Some assembly required.
What he did was release tiny bits and pieces of the codes on a special website; each person that visits that site gets their own chunk of the codes, identified by a unique identifier (mine was series 10f0c265). Some assembly required, indeed. It’s going to take thousands of people’s contributions to assemble all of the codes.
But hey, that’s something the Reddit hivemind is uniquely suited for. Redditors in /r/minecraft are sharing their code chunks. Soon, someone will write a piece of software to assemble the bits and pieces until all 99 are figured out.
The part that should be interesting is the fight for those 99 codes once they’re figured out. Notch says, “It’s going to take more people than there are codes available.” It’s almost designed specifically to cause a giant Donnybrook over those 99 precious codes.
Notch’s last exhortation is to “not review the game” (even though he just essentially gave the codes away). If you do, you’ll be “blacklisted, or something.”
Oh Notch.
Articles RSS