Games Today Shut the Door to Tomorrow’s Devs

Re:Games Today Shut the Door to Tomorrow’s Devs by mental1896 on Monday October 15, 2018 @03:58PM (#18223126)

I don't think Mojang ever tried to actively stop the mod community like, say, Rockstar did. I would say Minecraft does have modding support in the sense that the installation files are an open book, inviting unlimited modding opportunities for anyone who wants to tinker.

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Re:Games Today Shut the Door to Tomorrow’s Devs by fenwick67 on Monday October 15, 2018 @05:29PM (#18223956)

They never tried to stop it but they never fostered it either. It was just coincidentally easy to reverse engineer the code and install mods. But the interfaces were VERY brittle, and mods had very specific version requirements.

Official mod support (with an installer and an API) was on the dev roadmap but never materialized.

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Re:Games Today Shut the Door to Tomorrow’s Devs by nemo846 on Monday October 15, 2018 @10:20PM (#18225866)

Don’t know about “open book” given Minecraft’s Java bytecode is obfuscated - mods rely on code deobfuscated by players.

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