[bricemo]

I always wondered how Zach felt about missing what’s arguably the biggest game industry boat of all time: his ideas in Infiniminer being the basis for Minecraft. In the early days the games looked almost identical. But one never became a household name and the other literally the top selling game of all time.

It sounds like he’s found peace with it and had fun and is on to something else. Good for him. That would be hard for me.

[daniel-cussen]

Well Western Culture generally gives the most credit to the first person to have an idea, when I personally find the second people (like Persson, also Sergey Brin) to deserve--in these cases--more credit. There's a shortage of second parties to inventions.

[aahortwwy]

notch's decision to add survival and traditional RPG mechanics to Minecraft is what led to its mainstream success.

Based on Zachtronics' other games, I really doubt Infiniminer would've gone in that direction had its development continued.