Hey!

John here, feeling the burn after an amazing week at the awesome Minecon 2013…

So, how did Eden Star end up at Minecon 2013? We were invited to attend the very first Minecon Indies showcase, where the guys and girls who organise the con (with a little help from Notch and the Mojang crew…) pick some of the best up-and-coming indie teams to share their warez in the same vein to how Minecraft was started, sharing with the community at an early stage of development. The only rules are that there needs to be something playable and something to pre-order or buy on the weekend of the con from each team.

So Minecon itself was an incredible experience, one of the most welcoming shows we’ve been to this year so far (previous shows this year have included GDC Europe, Casual Connect, Eurogamer Expo and more). The atmosphere is great and the vibe from meeting the fans and other indies is electric. The latest updates to the ES tech demo went down really well and people jumped into the tutorial with ease thanks to some of the latest HUD changes. In addition to the HUD updates, this was the first show where we let the public loose with a few more buildable items including Turrets (which you can watch here). With the new features being freshly rolled out and updated by our resident genius (Tech Master; Lord Snookes), literally half way through the first day, we threw the new features out to the public, hot off the test-bed and it worked like a charm…

No tutorial meant that we showed people as they were playing how to access and then deploy them and after no time at all, we saw people building as many turrets as they could whilst spamming the enemy waves in an attempt to recreate the famous battle scene from the last Matrix film. They succeeded, with bullets flying and destruction reigning down. We hope guys and girls enjoyed it as people were often playing for more than 30-45mins at a time – we may need to put a time limit or end goal in for future shows so that others get a go.

A big thanks to all who came to play and who also pre-ordered the game, please comment if you met either Lee or John at the event and let us know what you thought of the Demo!

Thanks again for the support!

J

Below are some of the pictures from the event:
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