Gemception: Gem Collector, a video game built within Minecraft
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We're pretty dang hard to flabbergast around these parts, especially when it comes to Minecraft and the various crafty things people do in there. Our old hearts have all but dried up, and the glimmer in our eyes has slowly dimmed, leaving behind a glazed, absent stare. We're dusty and bitter and hard to impress, so we mean it when we say that this Minecraft mod is the craziest damn thing we've ever seen.
Rezz and Psycho_ewt of Theorycrafting have created an actual, honest to God video-game inside of Minecraft. Gemception: Gem Collector uses a mechanical computer made of incomprehensible, alchemical devices like "demultiplexers" to operate two screens, an NES controller, and track the player's health. It really has to be seen to be believed, so watch the video above and then hit the source link to download and run the monstrous creation yourself.
[Thanks, Simon!]
Reader Comments (22)
Posted: Nov 12th 2011 8:37PM GeraltRivia said
The grammer nazi in me wants to point out the typo.
Posted: Nov 12th 2011 9:01PM KGameLover1 said
@GeraltRivia
The spelling Nazi in me wants to point out the typo, too.
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The spelling Nazi in me wants to point out the typo, too.
Posted: Nov 12th 2011 9:12PM Andrew12h said
I'm just calling this out as magic.
Posted: Nov 12th 2011 9:16PM Melace said
Is there a typo on our channel or in the video ? We speak french IRL, our english isn't perfect :(
I'll fix it ASAP, thanks.
Also big thanks to joystiq :D
-Melace from TC
I'll fix it ASAP, thanks.
Also big thanks to joystiq :D
-Melace from TC
Posted: Nov 13th 2011 12:20AM Hank Hill said
I'm just waiting for someone to port Doom to minecraft.
Posted: Nov 13th 2011 12:35AM JakeAuditore said
The only thing that could make me more speechless would be finding out that all the redstone was harvested legit.
Posted: Nov 13th 2011 12:53AM Jasius said
I don't see what so cool about putting simplistic games into other games. Sure its neat and all but these people might have made a real game that runs by itself :-O !
Posted: Nov 13th 2011 4:50AM Dick Socrates said
Interesting that is can be done. The point of doing it escapes me. If there is some personal education in terms of coding for the creator, then that's legitimate.
But from an end product point of view, it's a whole lot of effort for not much.
But from an end product point of view, it's a whole lot of effort for not much.
Posted: Nov 13th 2011 5:44AM PN04 said
There have been games within games for years.... you need to go deeper. a game within a game within two games!
Posted: Nov 13th 2011 6:02AM Dauss said
It's impressive because they made the mechanical components of a computer within the simulation run by a real computer. The game is just kind of a proof of concept, and not really the main point.
Posted: Nov 13th 2011 6:34AM Norcii said
Now THAT'S skill, in contrast to those timesink stopmotion animations.
Posted: Nov 13th 2011 9:27AM TommyCanYouHearMe said
I don't have any skills... you know, like nunchuck skills, bow hunting skills, games inside minecraft skills. Girls only want boyfriends who have great skills.
Posted: Nov 13th 2011 11:59AM arucious said
Somebody should recreate Skyrim in this!
Posted: Nov 13th 2011 1:01PM EliminatorZigma said
WHAT SORCERY IS THIS?!?
Posted: Nov 13th 2011 2:13PM SoldierShredder said
Now make Pac-Man INSIDE the Gem Collector.
Double Gemception.
Double Gemception.
Posted: Nov 13th 2011 3:19PM twocows said
A demux just tells an input where to go. Like if a train comes to one of those rail splitter things where the engineer has to get out and select where it goes? That's almost exactly like a demux.
Posted: Nov 13th 2011 6:19PM 564731790 said
Amazing! Just... amazing.
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So, are these people warlocks, or what?
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So, are these people warlocks, or what?







