Minecraft is a text book example of just how popular an independently developed game can become. If you weren’t aware the game itself started out as a one man operation and eventually going on to spawn a independent development studio headed by the original creator Notch dubbed Mojang Specifications. In fact to date the game has sold nearly 2 million copies doing so with little to no marketing.
The beauty of this is that Minecraft is still in beta when it managed to garner all of this interest. This means that there are still some bugs within the game but it also means that there is still a ton of room for the game to grow. In fact, if you’ve been following the game, you may know that Mojang had planned to get a patch out this week updating the game to version 1.5. This version was set to include things such as achievements, weather effects, stats and even wolves. However, ti seems that things didn’t go as planned as Notch has updated his blog letting us know that they won’t be getting it out this week and instead shooting for next week.
Luckily, it seems that the studio will be packing some additional features into the patch now that they have a bit of extra time so we’ll have to wait and see what’s in store.
Despite the patch being announced well over a year ago, and the