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Tell me more. What's this about stealing ideas?

Also, the game was huge success long before it was sold to MS.



Notch credits other indie games like Dwarf Fortress and Infiniminer as inspirations

https://web.archive.org/web/20181212110808/https://notch.tum...


Inspiration is radically different than stealing ideas. The core gameplay of Minecraft is vastly different than dwarf fortress, and even alpha had far more to it than infiniminer.




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