<story><title>16-year-old Makes Working Scientific Calculator in Minecraft</title><url>http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Minecraft-Calculator-Graphing-MaxSGB-Scientific,15109.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cookiecaper</author><text>There is an unbelievable amount of potential in Minecraft that is completely untapped. It&apos;s really an amazing environment and I&apos;m surprised it hasn&apos;t spawned &quot;sandbox games&quot; as a completely separate and significant genre, especially since a big reason Minecraft remains &quot;untapped&quot; is Notch&apos;s reticence to open the platform up and push the game forward.</text></item><item><author>bryanh</author><text>Could Minecraft be that little thing that teaches kids about logic? Maybe Jeb and co. should consider adding even simpler logic based building blocks, more akin to Lego&apos;s Mindstorm as an alternative to relays and switches.&lt;p&gt;I find it fascinating to think in 10-20 years many will be looking back fondly on how they learned to hack with an unassuming little game: Minecraft.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>elisee</author><text>Just thought I&apos;d mention CraftStudio (&lt;a href=&quot;http://craftstud.io/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://craftstud.io/&lt;/a&gt;), the multiplayer game-making platform I&apos;m working on. You could say it&apos;s a Minecraft-style engine but you get to make your own models, paint your own map blocks and (soon) write your own game rules (so you&apos;ll be able to make any kind of games, not just first person stuff).&lt;p&gt;Video of CraftStudio in action: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1QbJO3y_O0&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1QbJO3y_O0&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Hacker News thread from yesterday: &lt;a href=&quot;http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3751455&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3751455&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>16-year-old Makes Working Scientific Calculator in Minecraft</title><url>http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Minecraft-Calculator-Graphing-MaxSGB-Scientific,15109.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cookiecaper</author><text>There is an unbelievable amount of potential in Minecraft that is completely untapped. It&apos;s really an amazing environment and I&apos;m surprised it hasn&apos;t spawned &quot;sandbox games&quot; as a completely separate and significant genre, especially since a big reason Minecraft remains &quot;untapped&quot; is Notch&apos;s reticence to open the platform up and push the game forward.</text></item><item><author>bryanh</author><text>Could Minecraft be that little thing that teaches kids about logic? Maybe Jeb and co. should consider adding even simpler logic based building blocks, more akin to Lego&apos;s Mindstorm as an alternative to relays and switches.&lt;p&gt;I find it fascinating to think in 10-20 years many will be looking back fondly on how they learned to hack with an unassuming little game: Minecraft.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mbell</author><text>Have a look at Spout[0].  Its an open source server that generalizes the minecraft concept.  They are actually supporting &apos;minecraft&apos; as a plugin called vanilla which communicates with the stock minecraft client.  They also have an improved client which is currently a modded minecraft client but I believe the eventual plan it rewrite the client from scratch also.&lt;p&gt;[0]&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.spout.org&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.spout.org&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/SpoutDev&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https://github.com/SpoutDev&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>