0x10c
0x10c (stylized as 0x10c and referred to as 10 to the C) is a sandbox science fiction video game previously under development by Mojang AB. It was announced on April 3, 2012, by Markus Persson, the game's lead designer. The game was eventually indefinitely postponed because Persson found several creative blocks, citing the main problem as "it not being very fun to play". Notch then stated he will instead, most likely continue to work on smaller projects for the rest of his life. The game has now been completely cancelled but a team of fans are working on their own version of the game.
The announced features include a fully working virtual computer, random encounters, an advanced economy system, and also single and multiplayer modes in a consistent universe, or "Multiverse". The game takes place in the year AD 281,474,976,712,644 after people start waking up from "deep sleep" caused by a bug in deep sleep cells that were released in 1988. (Note that 0x10C in hexadecimal represents 1612 in decimal, which equals 281,474,976,710,656, the number of years passed in story since 1988.)
Daniel Rosenfeld
Daniel Rosenfeld (born May 9, 1989) is a German musician and sound engineer best known as the composer and sound designer for the computer game Minecraft. His music is generally published under the name C418 (pronounced "see-four-eighteen").
Rosenfeld was born and grew up in East Germany after reunification, and the economic realities of the region limited his resources to learn audio composition . He says he learned on early versions of Schism Tracker and Ableton Live in the early 2000s, which were both rudimentary tools at the time. Learning under such restrictions turned out to help the young composer when he began collaborating with Minecraft creator Markus "Notch" Persson. The sound engine in the game was not very powerful, so Rosenfeld had to be creative in his approach to sound effects and music.
As a freelance artist, Rosenfeld was not on staff at Mojang, the game company behind Minecraft, which was sold to Microsoft in 2014. Rosenfeld says he still owns the rights to all the music in the game, having released two albums featuring songs from the soundtrack. The first soundtrack, Minecraft - Volume Alpha, was released on March 4, 2011. The video game blog Kotaku selected the music of Minecraft as one of the best video game soundtracks of 2011. On November 9, 2013, Rosenfeld released the second official soundtrack, titled Minecraft - Volume Beta, which includes the music that was added in later versions of the game.Minecraft - Volume Alpha found its first release in physical format on Ghostly International in 2015.
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