"Minecraft Clone"

[Judy Hopps' Husband]

I'd like to address this in full clarity. I have read so many bad reviews of this game with the reason "Minecraft copy" or "free Minecraft". It is not, every sandbox game with blocky art style is NOT a Minecraft clone. If you look at Minecraft in detail, Minecraft in itself was based off of many cube-like sandbox game, yet no-one calls Minecraft a clone just because it sold well, possibly better than the games it was based on, and because YouTubers played it like mad and still do.

However, lots of sales and Youtube videos DOES NOT make a game original. Please understand this and take it into account when describing and rating this game.

I'd just like to mention one more thing. No-one has said Scrap Mechanic is a Minecraft clone because of its Cube-like art style and its sandbox intentions in later updates. Please ask yourself why this is. Is it because they priced the game highly? Is it because they gave YouTubers free copies. Yes, and this is not how making your game 'original' or 'unique' should work.

Thank you for reading this if you made it all the way through. I am very sorry for having a rant but this needed to be addressed,

Game On
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[CocoaAndTea]

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and yes I have played another game before minecraft even came out, which had similar art style.

[A Spicy Meatball]

Any person who complains about this being a minecraft clone, fails to realize that Minecraft is a clone of Infiniminer (at least it came out after infiniminer)

[skeletor]

dude your so right. i remember this game that came out a couple year before minecraft and i played it a lot. it had a bery similar art style to creativerse and minecraft.

[Adun]

Is it time for this discussion again? A short search of the forum will show you at least two dozen threads with the same topic. TL; dr: if CV would just copy MC, they'd be pixel-deep in lawsuits. So it's fine.

[J's]

I agree with you brother/sister. I had the same discussion with a cousin.

For that matter any FPS game would be a clone of early on Wolfenstein 3D (or even older stuff).

But it's not the point.

What make a game unique is it's own identity and "self containement" (the fact it create it's own universe and act according to it). From what I saw so far this game has the goods to get going. Now it's just a matter of not loosing it's identity.

Edit : and legaly, general ideas and concept have no legal protection... only original work of art does... thus the identity is most crucial!

[Silver]

Really, what we're witnessing is the birth of a new genre: games that allow you to modify your environment while in-game! Games of the same genre are not clones, they're unique individual games in their own right...

[xent]

when people talk about a clone of something it depends on their view, is it just a clone because you find it similar? or is it a clone because it's based on the original game? In my opinion it's only a clone because in an over view perspective you can do the same thing.

But that's it really, it's hard to call it a copy because if it's engine alone, it's like making a movie about a book, sure it's the same story but there the comparison ends. To finish this off i don't think it's a youtube thing, there where many Youtubers that loved to switch over but where holted because the game laked some features.

i am sure ones automation is perfected to the way Playful wants it to be, Many of them will come back to this game. again this is my opinion, and not a statement.

Edit:
Things there waiting on are as followed:
Fleshed out automation, so they can create interesting content.
Creative mode, for there build tutorials.

(This was confirmed by some people on Youtube)

[Lounger, The Creator]

Do you really think the group of people your post is aimed at (ignorant kids and/or fanboys) will actually change their minds now?

[76561198296853339]

For me Creativerse is not a copy of Minecraft , for me is an inspired version in Minecraft '-'

[Keelanrelyt]

Oh its a clone but the kind of clone that is better in everyway. For instance you take mew this tiny adorable harmless little pokemon and you clone him and turn him into an absolute bad ***.

[maiddaraya]

How about this perspective. Creativerse is what Minecraft could have been if they had refined and polished that game with the focus on creativity. It is always the parents wish that the child be better then themselves.

And Creatoverse players themselves surpase the average Minecraft player in being mature and articulate, with the exception here and there.