People amaze me. I look at Minecraft and see a terrifying leafy, deserty, landy, watery blank slate. I’m as creative as a one year-old, and most of my acts destructive and sad. I am still rubbish at the damn game. I don’t have the brain to look at Minecraft and end up with a mod that adds a fully working basketball game to it. The people that made this are, to me, the Harlem Globetrotters of Minecraft. They’re spinning things on their fingers and wearing short shorts while chewing bubblegum. They probably majored at Globetrotter University in razzle dazzle Globetrotter calculus. I am jealous.
It’s surprisingly involved. It needs four players, two per side. When each team is ready in the locker room they press the button in there and are transported to the court. The ball is a wonderfully blocky sprite, and the game manages to keeps stock and spawn a new ball when a hoop is scored. You can shoot, pass, dunk, and PvP is ‘encouraged’. Basically it somewhat resembles basketball. More than vanilla Minecraft, at any rate.
This is all made possible by the terrifying magic of Redstone. Someone’s going to create life with that, and then we’ll be sorry. Creepers are scary enough in-game. Fancy trying it? All you need is right here.
16/01/2013 at 11:23 Zanchito says:
The game broke the meta barrier when they created a redstone computer inside it, with memory and all. Still, a great example of why we love moddable games!
16/01/2013 at 12:16 x1501 says:
And even a greater example of why the publishers hate them. Try selling a horse armor DLC for $1.99 after that.
16/01/2013 at 12:21 Zanchito says:
Indeed, but I think that’s a bit of shortsightedness from the suits. Oblivion was totally moddable and it still sold a ton of DLC. Mods add the chance to exted the life of a product way past the time you’d usually consider viable (ie. Arma2 <- Day Z)
16/01/2013 at 12:57 Tei says:
The ARMA2 publisher must be happy, since is still n#1 in Steam after months.
16/01/2013 at 13:25 someguywho says:
The publisher is the developer. Bohemia interactive.
16/01/2013 at 20:45 zeekthegeek says:
They rejected all publishers who approached them anyway. Notch still makes several hundred thousand dollars in sales EVERY DAY so they’re not exactly hurting for it. They’ll reach 9 million PC copies by the end of the month.
16/01/2013 at 12:33 yhancik says:
Minecraft 2 will actually run on a redstone computer in Minecraft 1
16/01/2013 at 13:13 plugmonkey says:
Lol. The terrifying truth is that someone, somewhere is probably building that…
16/01/2013 at 15:27 gjrud says:
If I remember right someone created a “2d minecraft” using redstone and lamps months ago =)
16/01/2013 at 14:20 solidsquid says:
With local networking if you build two redstone computers. For internet based multiplayer you create a minecraft server for the game with multiple redstone computers and everyone logs onto that server and access one of the computers to boot up minecraft 2
16/01/2013 at 11:27 Gnoupi says:
As far as “sports modded into another game” go, I always remember Deathball, for UT2K3.
I miss it, too.
16/01/2013 at 11:30 Kid_A says:
-obligatory Grifball reference here-
16/01/2013 at 12:28 phelix says:
What about TF2 dodgeball? Not sure if it’s present in another game, but it’s a sport to be sure.
16/01/2013 at 21:51 Spacewalk says:
I remember the mod for Quake which let you play football with a severed head as the ball and you could shoot rocket launchers into the bleachers. Because I’m old. Oh, and Quake chess maybe, you can play chess as a sport right?
16/01/2013 at 12:01 Kollega says:
Next step: recreating Barkley, Shut Up And Jam: Gaiden in Minecraft.
16/01/2013 at 14:39 Brun says:
I vote NFL Blitz: Minecraft Edition.
16/01/2013 at 14:47 InternetBatman says:
I vote He-man singing.
16/01/2013 at 15:12 Leetables says:
Now to implement “Razzle dazzle!”, “Heating up…” and “He’s on fire!”.
17/01/2013 at 14:23 fuakinjuicy says:
Am I the only one who’s just unimpressed with all the Minecraft creations? It’s like coding masturbation, oh great you’ve created basketball in a blocky crafting game, now go and create and actually good basketball game
18/01/2013 at 17:52 surftuft says:
This isn’t a mod, it’s done totally in vanilla minecraft.