See, the genius of it is in the final icon the screen – that block with the ‘+’ on it. What’s the point when there is no crafting at all? The pick-axe icon is an all-in-one tool that you don’t need to craft as it is always there! It may look like a pick-axe but no, it is actually a diamond super tool that destroys any block in this world with one tap.Īnd whenever you destroy a block it doesn’t leave that block behind, nope. The fire icon is the ‘flint & steel’ in the original Minecraft – it creates fire. You move around by dragging the screen left and right, which is similar to the actual Minecraft (but doesn’t feel half as natural because you’re using your finger on a little screen and not a mouse). The massive white windmill on the left is obviously how to control, although the left and right actually moves you sideways and not around.
The trees lack any proper shape, the sky is eerily cloudless and the distance-fog allows for about 15/20 meters worth of viewing – but apart from that it didn’t look too bad! The actual world bit of it, if you ignore the horrible looking action buttons, doesn’t look too bad on a first look. It was time to dive right in to making my own little world…Īs I loaded up I was greeted with the semi-promising sight of this: The developer (Kingly, apparently) seems to have left the ‘test’ worlds on there, but they don’t load anyway so it doesn’t matter.īut hey, some of the best games have dodgy main menus (Minecraft itself does to be honest). Here is what I saw when I loaded that page: The symbol on the bottom left and the bottom right is something for sharing your world, although it took a long time to load and didn’t seem to work properly. Just options to load your world, create a new one or to delete the world (and a really small options menu that allows you to change the sound volumes and to invert controls). So here is the main menu that greets you when you first begin:ĬLICK ON ANY OF THE PICTURES TO SEE A MUCH BIGGER VERSION. I actually went as far as paying for this (£2.99 when it was first launched, down to 59p now I believe) as I was intrigued, but like anyone who chose the Asylum version of Sherlock Holmes ( link) instead of the Guy Ritchie one (probably because of the dinosaur on the DVD cover!) I was stung by just how bad cheap, tacky remakes can be. Gaming segments very rarely feature on this site, this may well be the first in fact, but I think the release of a blatant Minecraft rip-off on the iPhone has far-reaching implications and begs a familiar question – what the hell is the point of bad rip-offs? They’ll annoy the fans of the original and hardly attract an original crowd.
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