Comment by woobilicious
5 years ago
Minecraft wasn't marketed as having "every genre", while showing exactly none in their demo videos.
When you design a game you come up with a core game play loop, Minecraft had this, and notch was competent and humble enough to make his game from scratch, and release a MVP people could play.
This game doesn't have a core game play loop so it hides behind nothing burger statements like this.
Whenever someone makes claims that are both grandiose and vague you should take it with a grain of salt.
But do you know what it does have? it doesn't describe in ambiguities? kickstarter rewards, you get pets, and you get to put your name on a billboard, and the more you donate the bigger your name.
I'm not saying they're right, but given we know games can lose the core game play loop and succeed, maybe starting without it isn't a terrible idea. Secondlife is still around without one. Roblox doesn't really have one. Kids can spend hours in Scratch creating their own.