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[dan200]

I'm really enjoying the speculation in this thread

[Creator]

dan200, on 07 May 2015 - 04:02 PM, said:

I'm really enjoying the speculation in this thread

I think you are feeling like a superior force manipulating us and having fun...

[Bomb Bloke]

Heh, well he clearly doesn't want to give the secret away!

[Antelux]

I think we might be looking at some kind of ComputerCraft 2.0 thing after all.
Can't wait to see what this is. It'll be a huge boost of graphics for games like my own, assuming we can use it do so. OS's will probably look way better, too.

EDIT: Made it sound like it was completely unrelated to ComputerCraft. Changed.

Edited by Detective_Smith, 10 May 2015 - 12:09 PM.

[MKlegoman357]

Another interesting screenshot

The auto-completion and color scheme really reminds ComputerCraft. Could this actually be ComputerCraft 2.0?

EDIT: notice the font - it's not the default MineCraft font.

Edited by MKlegoman357, 10 May 2015 - 12:02 PM.

[CrazedProgrammer]

MKlegoman357, on 10 May 2015 - 11:56 AM, said:

Another interesting screenshot

The auto-completion and color scheme really reminds ComputerCraft. Could this actually be ComputerCraft 2.0?

EDIT: notice the font - it's not the default MineCraft font.

It could be CC 2.0 because of the autocompletion and commands

[Geforce Fan]

I'd be excited and afraid for CC 2.0
I hope there'd be some sort of way to port CC 1.0 programs to it.
edit: Related?

Edited by Geforce Fan, 11 May 2015 - 01:07 AM.

[Bomb Bloke]

Geforce Fan, on 11 May 2015 - 01:03 AM, said:

I hope there'd be some sort of way to port CC 1.0 programs to it.

I'd imagine that many scripts (well, other than ones which use peripherals/redstone/turtles/etc) will work as-is.

[nitrogenfingers]

MKlegoman357, on 10 May 2015 - 11:56 AM, said:

Another interesting screenshot

Oh now that is interesting...

Allow me to further, totally baselessly speculate. I'd proffer one of CC's greater achievements is providing such an accessible environment for budding programmers, perhaps this is in the direction of a standalone tool with that sort of 'easy to experiment' mentality in mind? A lot (far from a majority but a lot) of stuff posted here doesn't explicitly need minecraft to work, or even be useful or interesting in whatever context there is after all. Perhaps this is inspired or even somehow linked with the work being done on CCEdu.

[MKlegoman357]

Yet another screenshot.

Looks like the color pallet is wider than CC's (at least more shades of grey), maybe 32 colors.

[Cranium]

That kinda confirms that this probably isn't for ComputerCraft as we know it. Likely something completely separate.

[MKlegoman357]

That's why I'm sticking with this now:

MKlegoman357, on 04 May 2015 - 06:36 AM, said:

Maybe Dan is creating a standalone CC-based game?

[Bomb Bloke]

Dan had been toying with the idea of adding more colours to CC, shortly before starting his "secret project":

http://www.computerc...e-them-in-game/

That said, by this point I've long since been convinced it's not "CC for MineCraft".

[MKlegoman357]

A tile map editor?

So now it looks like it's a CC-based game in which, just like in ComputerCraft, you can create any program you want, but is mainly meant for very easily creating games.

[ebernerd]

I seriously think that with the very similar syntax of the ComputerCraft (i.e "edit namehere"), we might get some sort of ComputerCraft thing. It might not be in game, however, it might be some sort of external "emulator" or something that can be it's own "game".

Whatever it is... I WANT IT NOW. xD

[Bomb Bloke]

I would guess that the "edit" script looks at the filename extension to figure out that you want to deal with sprites instead of text? Dunno.

The pipes put me in mind of Mario.

[ebernerd]

Maybe... just maybe....

Maybe the edit function detects the file extension and you can configure what program opens which extension by default. That would be cool, and actually pretty easy to do.

[TheOddByte]

We can safely asume that it isn't ComputerCraft he's working on https://twitter.com/...582611795742720

[ardera]

LuaJ has inbuilt unicode support (I think), it's possible that he now decided to use it

Seeing the later responds this thread, and the other tweets of dan200, I don't think it's computercraft what he's working on

Edited by ardera, 19 May 2015 - 11:21 AM.

[Lignum]

To me it seems like it's some sort of game development kit for people coming from ComputerCraft. This would make sense since he always includes #gamedev in his tweets, and not to forget this game-looking thing.
Additionally, ComputerCraft has always been an educational mod, so I suppose the new thing is a sort of ComputerCraft 2.0, a new challenge for those who have mastered the original?