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Hello Opticraft! I have made a very simple, 2D version of Minecraft. It only has 2 blocks: dirt and water. Left click to place dirt. Middle click to remove dirt. Right click to place water. Water spreads when it is placed. Press W to remove all water. Press R to reset everything. The block highlighter is a little bit glitchy, but it is not too annoying and fixing this might cause other parts of the game to not work. This isn't really meant to be fun, it's just a test of my programming skills. Tell me what you think!
http://www.mediafire.com/?e8eol5opg47hz1j

Update: here's another one!
Hello, Opticraft! I have made another game - this time it's a tower defense game. Enemies will follow a path towards your base. Don't let them get there, or you'll lose a life! Stop them with towers. Left-click anywhere on the grass to place one. When an enemy comes in range, it will shoot it down! Each enemy requires 2 shots to be defeated. But be careful! Towers cost lots of money. Earn more money by defeating enemies and beating levels. If you want to sell a tower, right-click it. Those are the basics of a tower defense game!
Unlike my last game, this one can be fun. It took quite a bit of time to make, however. Known glitches: If 2 bullets from a tower hit an enemy at exactly the same time, the enemy will become invincible. I don't know how to fix this, so just be careful with your tower placement. Please give me some feedback in the form of a comment. Thanks!
http://www.mediafire.com/?6p37t56m0saa281

I have made a demo of my game Inertia. The full version is 99 cents, but the demo is free. You can download it here. If you liked the demo, I'd appreciate it if you bought the full version! The demo has 6 levels, and the full version has 40, plus a secret game mode and more obstacles. I will use the money I make selling the full version to pay for college.

The full version of Inertia is finished. You can buy it here for $0.99. Download the webpage and open it, then type your email address into the box (it's weird, I know). I will email it to you when I receive your payment. Please make sure that you enter your email address correctly.

I am making an LP series of Inertia. You may view the 1st episode here, the second episode here, and the third episode here.

Ingame name: Wyboth
Join date: Sunday, 24 April 2011
Briefly describe all your creations: The moon, a recycle bin, a Weighted Companion Cube, an hourglass, Pokemon Trainer Black sprite art, a lamppost, Ho-oh sprite art, Shoop da Whoop face sprite art, Mockingjay Pin sprite art, Mew sprite art, and SoulKnightGT's avatar (Sora x Roxas) sprite art.
What worlds are the creations on: SoulKnightGT, and various member/recruit worlds.
Links to screenshots of the creation: http://s1258.photobucket.com/albums/ii525/Wyboth/
Names of players who helped contribute: SoulKnightGT, for cuboiding the background of the Sora x Roxas sprite and providing his personal world for me to use.
What is your current rank in Opticraft ?: Recruit
Extra (Anything else you want to mention): Alright, guys, you've all been waiting for this for a long time. Several of you were urging me to apply as soon as possible, but I wanted to make sure that I was really ready for a promotion before I apply for it. Now, I believe I am ready. I hope that all of my best creations are enough to earn me a promotion to builder. I've come a long way, and I feel like I've achieved something. Whether or not I get builder, I feel that I have achieved at least getting this far in my building skill. I would like to thank everyone who help me get here, especially those who cheered me on when I was ready to quit. Thanks to all of you, I've made it here. I appreciate everything you have done for me, and I hope that i can in some way give back to this amazing community. Thank you.
Do you agree with our terms(http://www.opticraft.net/index.php?topic=3.0) ?: Yes

Hello everyone! Today, I'm going to show you how to make sprite art.
So, what is sprite art? Sprite art is a recreation of a picture in Minecraft. Usually sprite art comes from old video games.
Now comes the next question: How do you make it? That's simple. First, find a picture you want to turn into sprite art. In this example, I'll use an 8-bit Pokeball.

To turn this into Minecraft blocks, think of each pixel as one block. So each block we place should correspond with each pixel in the image. First, we want to outline the sprite, like this.

Then, fill in each individual pixel until it's done. Also, you'll notice that there are 2 shades of red in the sprite, but minecraft only has one shade of red. To get around this, we do what's called shadowing. For all of the pixels that are a darker shade of red, place a block in the same position, but high above the actual sprite. This will cast a shadow on the block in the sprite, making it a bit darker. This way, we can get colors that we couldn't get before. If you did it correctly, it should look like this:

And that's the basics! If you feel comfortable, you can make larger and more complicated sprites using this method. You never know what you can create until you try!

What's up guys. As you may have noticed, I wasn't on for a few days. I was on vacation. Unfortunately, I am about to go on another vacation. This one will last a week. Expect me back next Tuesday the 16th. See you guys then.

Hello, Opticraft. As you know, I am a very talented sprite artist. This is the project thread for all of the sprites that I will be making. Each one is sorted into a spoiler.

SoulKnightGT's Avatar Hourglass Nebula (suspended)
Dragonite

I had an idea today. Opticraft should get together and make a really kick-@$$ video showing off everything on our server and put it on Youtube. I know there are a few out there now, but they only show the tip of the iceberg of our builds and have 1,000 views, tops. We should all pitch in and make a really good video that will get loads of views on Youtube. Think about the wonders that would do to our member count. Perhaps some of the members attracted by the video could one day be good enough to become ops. Anyways, just a thought I was throwing out there.

Update: Nick3306 has just informed me that he talked to Optical about this a little over a week ago. They don't know if they're going to do it officially yet.

I'm just curious to see how many people have and haven't bought the full version. Please vote truthfully! I'm not ashamed to say that I don't own Minecraft.