My F5 key rarely gets any attention and the poor thing was taking a beating to make up for lost time. Hours turned into days and I have never been so obsessive about checking a website in my life.
But Wolfram, also known as Wollay, posted a graph of his server traffic, confirming that there are scoundrels in this world with nothing better to do than digitally attack poor indie game developers. It was like a game in and of itself. Multiply that times thousands of other slavering gamers and you have the recipe for a low-grade DDoS. Granted, I was probably part of the program, refreshing the site anywhere between every 15 seconds and every minute for hours straight. It seemed that either A) we were witnessing the critical mass of an indie video game star being born and the site just couldn't handle it's new-found popularity, or B) some jerk wanted to troll the Internet and let slip the dogs of cyber war. Right after Antilles registered and bought his copy, the game's site was sundered by a DDoS attack. The von Funcks have appeared to flesh out a world like no other and I was sold on trying this out along with my cohort and our friends of the Tavern. He, along with his wife Sarah, are the architects of this brave new world. That someone is Wolfram von Funck, winner of the Awesomest Name of Anybody of the Year Award. It's as if someone was dissatisfied with Minecraft as being "too blocky" and set out to stylize the same game world their own way. On the surface, the game takes you aback. well you'll just have to read on to find out. It's single player! And multiplayer! I dove deeper to determine if the juice was worth the squeeze. Higher resolution cubes! Complex landscapes, flora, and fauna are much easier to render when built with smaller chunks. If Minecraft is, visually, the NES version of a game, then Cube World is easily the SNES version of that same game. I headed over to the game's site, Picroma, and my suspicions were almost confirmed. First thought, judging a book by it's title, was it was some sort of Minecraft clone/wannabe. Started out as a trickle and soon became a thundering onslaught of palpable excitement and exclamation over this game. I recall the hashtag appearing on my twitter feed.
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