Making Minecraft from scratch in 48 hours (NO GAME ENGINE)

NOTES:
* The water and lava textures are from the now defunct (?) Painterly Pack, my animation skills weren't up to the challenge.
* The depth sorting algorithm depicted is mergesort but it's mislabled as quicksort (oops!). I was initially using mergesort but ended up using quicksort in the game itself.

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[chirpyr]

“And after about an hour of work I have a blank window” is the most C thing I’ve ever heard

[Smiley]

This guy is the reason coding interviews are so hard

[vinudaliyanage]

You know it's insane when he said, "I decided to write my Minecraft clone in C".

[chonkydabear]

If this man can make minecraft in 48 hours then theres no reason mojang can't add firefiles

[china]

"Mom can I buy minecraft?"
"No"
"Fine. I'll do it myself."

[breadwithoutbutter]

"rome wasn't built in a day" but Minecraft was built in two.

[jackhawkins]

More examples of why you should be paid on the hours of knowledge it took to learn how to do your job, not the hours spent doing your job. This man coded Minecraft in 12 hours, but to learn to code this way in C would have taken him thousands of hours. Huge respect.

[melc]

This kinda highlights how good of a programmer Notch actually was when the made Minecraft in Java.

[alekbase]

Seeing just how much code it took just to get a green square blew my mind.

[bezlon]

non programmers can’t even start to comprehend how hard this is and how much pure talent and skill you need to do this. respect.

[gttn]

8:40 "the chunks are rendered in the wrong order so i have to .." for me as an absolute programming beginner in my first semester in informatics the way of thinking and actually realizing what the problem is amazes me so much. great video !!

[sorprenant]

Im in my first year of university as CS major, and I'm learning C/C++. This video blows my mind. Super impressive.

[midgetsow]

Dear my fellow depressed coders/game developers, the takeaway here is that despite how clearly skilled and experienced he is, he still encountered several issues and learned a lot while doing this project. So don't feel discouraged if you encounter setbacks, and always be ready to learn.

*Heavy sigh*

[Omnicide]

"Every other guy on youtube used some kind of cheat like pre-existing useful things, so I destroyed spacetime and created a brand new reality"

[lunarleaf]

as a c# programmer my brain cant even comprehend how difficult this is, i cant even use C++ to make games let alone doing it in plain ol' C and openGL, huge props to u

[thenewsonatrain]

bro this is INCREDIBLE! even mojang took shortcuts and still took years to make the game we know and love; you made it in 48hrs!

[dailyasbaily]

Kid: mom can you buy me minecraft?
Mom: NO
Kid: *Builds his own minecraft

[leonardodias]

being a programmer for 4 years, professionally, i feel like a failure after watching this
damn

[ctrl_benny]

I would like to see you continue onto this. It would be cool to see how much farther you could get with another 48 hours. I would definitly watch it.

[halcsad]

I've been learning to code for a year, but I feel like I can't code at all after watching this. BIG RESPECT!