0x10c

0x10c


Following the end to his involvement with Minecraft, Notch began pre-production of an alternate reality space game set in the distant future in March 2012. 0x10c is a hexadecimal number equivalent to 1612 in decimal, which equals 281,474,976,710,656, which was the number of years that were passed in story since 1988. On April Fools' Day 2012, Mojang launched a satirical website for Mars Effect, citing the lawsuit with Bethesda as an inspiration. However, the gameplay elements remained true and on April 4, 2012, Mojang revealed it as a space sandbox title.

Jonatan_Pöljö was hired as an artist for the game, and created most of the textures and models seen in the later footage.

The game was eventually put on hold in April of 2013 because Notch had found creative blocks. However, at the time, he was still interested in expanding the development staff to push the game toward release. Eventually, the game was indefinitely shelved on August 13, 2013, but Notch added that it could be made in the future if another Mojang employee was interested in developing it.

On September 15, 2014, the soundtrack for the game was released by Daniel Rosenfeld.

See also:
Mojang Studios https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/0x10c