In May of 2009, Notch started developing Minecraft. For the first time in his life, he programmed a completely three-dimensional representation of figure textures from scratch. Notch wanted three-dimensional pawns, inspired by Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars. The zombie theme appeared to be prevalent throughout Notch's games, and he was planning an improved sequel to the Left 4k Dead series, which he called Zombie Town. He also made a sequel called Left 4k Dead 2 with slightly different graphics. Zombies frequently attack and have to be shot, and there are red powerups that restore health and yellow powerups that restore ammo randomly distributed throughout the increasingly hard levels. Left 4k Dead is similar to Pac-Man the character walks through a labyrinth of corridors and rooms that are sparsely illuminated by the player's flashlight.

2009: Left 4k Dead: a zombie shooter, inspired by Left 4 Dead.ĭue to the nature of the contest, these games were extremely simple.

2008: t4kns: a real-time strategy game.2005: Hunters4k: a first-person shooter.

This competition, initiated by Java programmers, was about writing the best possible computer game with a maximum size of 4 kibibytes (4096 bytes). Left 4k Dead 2, a sequel to Left 4k Dead.īefore Notch started to work on Minecraft, he took part in various editions of the Java 4k Game Programming Contest from 2005 to 2009.

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