UCraft Developer Promises Extensive Features and Releases New Trailer

I say why not. I'm not really interested but I bet my son would love this. I'll give it a chance if the price is right.

they really need to do some better trailers.

if they can pull of half of the things they promise this could be a good game. but i kinda think they try to do too many things at once. maybe a creative mode first and then add the survival stuff later on as updates

16 players online sounds great !!

@Sephariel your pic really matches your comment XP

I'll wait for reviews and if its good I might throw a few bucks at it but for now most of my money is eaten by smash and toad

"You can see some of these ideas in the teaser video below, which unfortunately does include some spelling errors."

Doesn't that evoke a degree of confidence?

This is not a clone.

Looking forward to see how this game pans out.

However long they take to make this game they'll spend twice that long battling MS in court. I don't think MS spent $2B to let stuff like this happen. I know Mojang didn't care about sourceforge and all the mods but at some point MS will clamp down. And even if MS knows they don't have a legal leg to stand on in court, they know they have the money to stay in court forever.

"Here at Nexus Games,we don't want your money.What we do want is your heart.never forget.We did it for U"

From the same guy that was begging on Miiverse to buy his crap game so he can have the funds to make a "AAA" game?Sorry but that introduction to the trailer just sounded like grovelling to me,especially the 'Never forget' part.Fair play to the guy though in taking all this on.He's got passion,I'll give him that.

You gotta start somewhere and somehow I wish him luck and I hope it works out good .

"variety of free and PAID DLC"
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Hmm will this be a good clone? Maybe when it comes out i'll give it a shot.

Pretty sure I'll give this a shot. While this may be a clone of minecraft, it look promising

Yeah, not sure who's making this game, I would guess their native language is not English, at least I hope so anyway. If it is, I don't have much faith in this.

The SDK paint thing looks pretty cool, but their trailers are really unprofessional, and I don't buy the whole "We are doing it for 'U'" thing. They've noticed that the Wii U isn't getting a MC, and they can now cash in knowing that they'll get a ton of sales from bringing a MC-clone to a platform without MC. Exactly the same happened with the Xbox 360 and FortressCraft/Total Miner.

What @OorWullie said. I know from the intro alone this game is going to ... Ah never mind.

"Realistic" 3D Models in a blocky world seems like a terrible idea to me.

Nintendo usually keep silent before they got some great stuff to show, and if they need more time to make the game really great, they extend the development time. I appreciate that approach.

I just threw up in my mouth a little. Dear lord, will the crap storm of indie games on the U ever end? This stuff is getting so amateur I feel like I'm watching a blooper reel from a game design college class.

I have to admit... it seems and sounds like they really mean it and ucraft could ineed a better version of minecraft o.o i thought they just put i cheap clone to the wii u but doesnt look like yet
i hope this will get really good. Gamepad using is always a good point and the thing with sdk painting is a really cool thing

I might actually get this game, if it's at the right price. It doesn't seem like a lazy clone which is a good thing and the online sounds great!

It's interesting, I'll give em that. But the clashing artstyles of the characters and animals with the blocky environment seems pretty bad.

finally the game i have been waiting for using all wii u capabilities ! can not wait.

i laugh at this... and i cuss at microsoft for removing the chance of U mc

i hope it does well though id be suprised if it did

...I don't personally feel like I owe this developer anything.

I'm throwing my heart at my Wii U.....why won't they take it!

Never played a MineCraft game before. But actually looking forward to checking this out when it arrives.

Could do better with the trailers but they make this very promising. They should be showing us more gameplay instead of trying to insult Notch. Hopefully the other clones are great too

The potential is there, but the quality is hard to grasp, especially since we don't know how long this has been in development or if the dev even has the skill to pull this off right.

It really depends on how it ends up playing. It may look a bit like MineCraft, but it needs to play just as well or better in it's own right, which wouldn't be that hard to do, concept wise. If they can really make GamePad features a thing, infinite worlds, possibly Wii remote controls and bigger multiplayer, with aforementioned features, and whatever else, I don't see why this would be that bad of a game for alot of people, and SDK Paint could make things alot more creative for the game.

I really do hope it ends up being a good game. If it doesn't, it will always be that clone game that tried, and it's not like we're getting MineCraft, so people don't really have a choice anyway.

A few observations on the new trailer:

1) We don't want your money - YOU LIE!
2) The contrast between the character models and the overworld is jarring, but I suppose that separates "Mighty Mike" from Steve. Hopefully we can customize him too.
3) Intergration - derp :3
3) The paint app looks promising, and supposedly that's another game due out on the eshop? Can anybody let me know?

And my thoughts on the game in general
1) There is such a thing as "stylistic suck" - making something look intentionally bad for the sake of humor, even though it plays fine. The Dangeresque series (Strong Bad 4 on Wiiware) is a good example. Whether the art style dissonance is stylistic or real suck remains to be seen.
2) How much can a game rip off another one before the original company has a right to sue? There seems to be enough original elements here to merit its existence (2-player local multiplayer, different main character, the fact that it's on Wii U at all and all the advantages that brings), and I sincerely hope that it turns out well and Microsoft is powerless to stop it. I root for the underdog

When it comes to this game it's actually turning out very well, SDK Paint, and ONLINE. I may actually buy this if priced below 10 or 12$.

The trailer is just a mess. Don't sound so desperate in your trailer. Act professional, because this promotional style isn't appealing to anyone here.

Woah what a trailer! 50 seconds+ of text and the actual footage of the game is... well... not pretty. As megamanlego said the characters looks very out of place.
Definitely not waiting for this.

btw.. go check out the youtube channel.. there is an interesting thing to read... this dev seem to be founded by 1 man who is legally blind! The other game hes creating "The Dance of the Damned" which will come to wii u too, is created by him alone.
I dont know how it looks by ucraft but there cant be a lot more people who is creating this.. so keep this in mind. I have a lot of respect for what this guy created yet

I support this developer and this game just because they cared enough to fill the Minecraft void on Wii U. There's a lot of developers out there giving us the middle finger, so it's hard to hate anyone who cares enough to support the system.

The integration with SDK Paint is a really cool idea.

I think its going to happen. Its going to be fun for those who have been wanting it. Hopefully Devs will keep listening to what gamers would like. It seems they are totally listening to gamers especially with all the features they have announced with this trailer. Good Luck! Its sounding very good

Hmm..
I've never been into Minecraft, but I'm simply baffled that Mojang never put their game on the Wii U. It's nice to see someone step up to try and fill the void, but there's simply no way it will compete. Many of the features in Minecraft were developed over a period of 4 years, yet Nexis wants to put this out by Christmas. Seems way too unrealistic.

The trailer was pretty bad, but I like that they are at least trying to differentiate themselves from their "inspiration", and there are some pretty ambitions features here. I'm curious to see how this turns out. If they hold true to their updates and DLC, then this could be a suitable replacement for those who just have to have Minecraft on Wii U.

"We don't want your money. What we want is your heart."
Sounds like the tagline for a horror movie.

That trailer was terrible. The music didn't suit the game and on screen stuff at all. The text looks ugly and what they say is stupid. "Here at Nexus Games,we don't want your money.What we do want is your heart.never forget.We did it for U".
Honestly they are promising a lot and might be biting off more than they can chew on this one.

Windows Movie Maker, woohoo!
"We don't want your money"
....well obviously

I've never played much Minecraft so I'm definitely interested in UCraft. I'll have to see the price and final response first though.

I hope this is good.

This looks terrific to me.

From the first teaser to this one (not a lot of time) it has come along in leaps and bounds as far as presentation goes. Still a way to go for me to be truly interested, but they have ambition and it might pay off

The trailer has some issues, but ultimately what counts is how the final game turns out. If it's creative, does something different, functional, and fun, that's really all that matters. At the very least, he's not sitting there saying, "hey, you Nintendo fans buy crap, so I'm just going to make crap" like the RCMADIAX guy.

Man that looks clunky.. However, I do hope they make the final product something many will enjoy in the end. I'm not interested, but it'd be great if this could be the big "up yours" at MS and Mojhang for not putting Minecraft on Wii U.

Also I'd like to point out the fisheye effect around the edges of the screen. That could be super disorienting for some.

clunky is the best description i could come up with after watching the trailor, but hey it could end up better.....and its made by one dude, if it is good then just think how more awesome it would be

So...that's 'alpha' footage, yet they intend to get it out this year? Also, god, yes...that terribly high FOV really didn't help the game look...well, not ugly. I mean, I don't judge a game on graphics first, but maaaan. At least if the FOV was lower it wouldn't physically hurt my eyes.

I'm looking forward to this, I hope however they put in some mechanical stuff, that's what drew me to mine craft, being able to come up with machines!( like a self repairing house)! And most of the world is a copy, anyone notice how many pizza and burger shops are out there! They can make a copy as long as it's not exactly the same!! The gaming industry wouldn't be what it is if people didn't try to take an idea and "atempt" to make it better!! We would still have 8 bit games and cartridges if that was the case!
And as long as he is not sitting their coping mine craft code by code Microsoft can't do anything! Why, because that's the way of industry, the world would come to a stand still if people couldn't attempt to take a "general" idea and make it better!!!!

Again though I hope they put in some mechanical stuff in the game block creation is ok but what makes it unique is being able to create machines that can change the way the land reacts, how fast you can farm, piston riders, so on and so forth that is what made mine craft in my opinion, and if they want to create a on going title, that's is one of the deals they need to try and make...... Unique!!!! They integrate that into the game and this would go to the top of my list of games to buy!!!!