Daily Archives: January 7, 2017

Survivalcraft Prehistory

I don’t know if any of you here remembers the first release of Survivalcraft on Windows Phone 7. It was in November 2011, over 5 years ago.

I was digging though the old emails and found some old source code from the time before the first release. The code dates shortly after I started working on the game. It represents maybe a month or two of work.

Survivalcraft August 2011.jpg

It’s not much, but it already has smooth radiosity lighting that some of Minecraft clones lack even today :-)

If you have a PC at hand and want to try it out for yourself, here’s the link:

Survivalcraft Dev August 2011

There’s both debug and release builds included and you need to install XNA framework redistributable (included in zip) for it to work.

I find it hard to believe that scarcely 1.5 months after this build I had a working game with inventory, crafting, proper UI, world generation etc. released on Windows Phone. Must have been working like a madman.