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Wurm Online: Notch's Past Project

A "friend" managed to make me feel like a huge tool in the pub yesterday when he informed me that Notch, indie developer of Minecraft fame, programmed another java game called Wurm Online before he made MineCraft. That'd be the Wurm Online that I wrote about heavily on this very site, not to mention the heavy piece of NGJ I wrote on it that amounted to a kind of dark age Deliverance.

In a nutshell, if you take MineCraft, make it massively multiplayer and swap the twee tone and fast pace for a gritty, ambitious medieval saga, you've got Wurm Online. If it sounds interesting, that's because it is. You can start playing for free right here, but be warned. If you go expecting proto-MineCraft, you're in for some pain. This is a very different beast.

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Quintin Smith: Quinns was one of the first writers to join Rock Paper Shotgun after its founding in 2007, and he stayed with the site until 2011 (though he carried on writing freelance articles well beyond that). These days, you can find him talking about tabletop board games over on Shut Up And Sit Down, or doing proper grown-up journalism with the folks at People Make Games.
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