Are
you wildly in love with Minecraft, but your computer lacks the
technoguts required to really process its cuboid contents? First of all,
your computer is whack. Secondly: Independent studio Projector Games is
working on an extremely similar title for the Xbox Live Indie Games
platform. Check out the fan-made video posted after the jump to see just
how extremely similar we mean.

The game, which is (perhaps cheekily) titled FortressCraft, will be
broken down into seven chapters to be released every four to six weeks.
In a post on the Minecraft forums, a Projector representative explained,
"Chapter 1 is basically Minecraft's Creative, Chapter 2 adds in
crafting, Chapter 3 adds in life, Chapter 4 adds in machinery, Chapter 5
adds in Minions, Chapter 6 adds in PvP, Chapter 7 adds in Fortress
Assault mode... (or whatever)." According to the FortressCraft Twitter
account, the first chapter is due out next Friday, March 4 for 80
Microsoft Points ($1).

Each of these Chapters contains the features of previous installments --
a workaround for the platform's inability to patch in new updates. It
sounds like a pretty ambitious (if not fairly original) undertaking for
the developer. Whether the studio receives the support needed to
complete all seven chapters -- or whether litigious sources intercede --
remains to be seen.


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