Minecraft Maker Making an MMO Multiverse -- In Which You Can Make Your Own Games (I Think)

0x10c is the unpronounceable name of Markus "Notch" Persson's follow-up to Minecraft, and if I'm reading the site's description right, it's an extremely persistent sci-fi, deep space MMO "multiverse" where every player gets onboard their interstellar spacecraft their own working 16 bit computer which continues running even when you're not online, and which you can also use to create and share your own games in the game itself. Read:

[T}here will be a monthly fee for joining the Multiverse as we are going to emulate all computers and physics even when players aren't logged in... The computer in the game is a fully functioning emulated 16 bit CPU that can be used to control your entire ship, or just to play games on while waiting for a large mining operation to finish. Full specifications of the CPU will be released shortly, so the more programatically advanced of you can get a head start.

Emphasis mine, because the last half of that tantalizing sentence makes me think the user-generated aspect of this game is going to be coding cool stuff in the ship's computer that you can somehow share. More details soon, hopefully.  Next point of speculation: What's the best and simplest way to say "0x10c"? It's not mathematically accurate in the strictest sense, but I'm going with "OTT", as in "0 times 10".

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[Gary J. Bivin]

0x10c is hexadecimal 10c, or decimal 76. I'd pronounce it as 10-C, or oh-X-one-oh-C.

Or maybe just "76" if you want to be annoyingly correct.

[Nope]

Technically it's "sixteen to the power of twelve", but I'd call it "zero-ex-ten-cee".

[Nope]

It's 0x10 (16) to the power of 0xC (12). It's the year the game takes place in.

[Iggy]

This should be fun. Eve Online without Goon Squads?

The problem with Eve and the board game Belter that helped inspire it is the "sit around and make money" part got increasingly hard for newcomers. And mining rocks to make money could get verrrrrrry boring.

Still, I like SF and space games, so I'll have to get into this one early. I also like the idea that your ship can do some things when you are offline. That was part of the fun of BBS games back in the day...it was always better when you logged on, but you could skip a few days with everything on autopilot.

[Hamlet Au]

I'm liking "10c" as a nice abbreviation, pronounced "ten see".

[Adeon Writer]

The C is a subscript, 0x designates the number is written in hexidecimal. So the 10 is actually a 16, raised to the C, which is 12.

So the title written in decimal is 16^12.

Which is 281474976710646, the year the game takes place. :)

But as for how to say it, but is preferring to watch people try to make sence of it for a bit or two.

[Adeon Writer]

The geeky title is also no doubt foreshadowing to the programing crowd it is intended to attract, :)

[Arcadia Codesmith]

The DCPU-16 specs are posted on the site now.

That is some seriously hardcore old-school geekiness. I'm already salivating.

[Metacam Oh]

Zerox 10c. Sounds awesome, Notch is the man.