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The article seems to be implying that for some reason, but Copilot doesn’t actually do anything to control the game either. In the demo, it was just telling the player whether or not they had the material to craft a sword based on what it could see when the player opened their inventory or a chest. It also gave a recommendation on how to get wood to make a sword with, but it can’t take control of the game and auto-gather or auto-build or really do anything at all like those advanced cheat clients do. It’s more like having a conversation with someone who’s watching you play from over your shoulder than any actual cheats.

I think this article did a bad job of explaining what they showed off in the presentation.

Minecraft in VR was cool, did they drop that feature?

Don’t worry, the title is pretty misleading actually. The AI won’t be “inside” Minecraft at all. In the demo, the player is “sharing their screen” with Copilot from the desktop and It’s analyzing what’s being shown on it, which just so happens to be a Minecraft window. It’s working purely off the same visuals you’re getting, there’s no extra integration happening behind the scenes and Mojang hasn’t added any Copilot code into Minecraft.

The “impressive” part of the demo (and what they explained on stage) is that it doesn’t need to be integrated into the game to figure out what’s happening on screen, so this should be possible in any game played on Windows. If you’re on Linux, you’ll never see it.

It’s not clear from the title, so I want to point out that they aren’t integrating Copilot into Minecraft. It’s not part of the game at all. In the demo, the player is “sharing their screen” with Copilot and the AI is analyzing what’s being shown on it. It’s working purely off the same visuals you’re getting, there’s no extra integration happening behind the scenes and Mojang hasn’t added Copilot to Minecraft on their end.

This is pretty impressive IMO because it means it will work in any game it can recognize without the developers needing to do anything to integrate Copilot.

They did give people 3 years of advance notice that would happen, to be fair. Much better than the one month warning this would have been.

The former community manager

The community manager got fired apparently

What does this mean? I just started trying out Linux for gaming with my NVIDIA graphics card yesterday. What’s gamescope?

Don’t stream to the TV, you do have to plug it in directly. A Raspberry Pi sized computer is perfect for this, and then you don’t need to run a cable all the way to your gaming PC.

Mojang strategy

Good to know, thanks!

Vanguard is always running? More reason for me to never go back to League I guess.

I’m curious, where are those shortcuts?

It’s not a good ratio, but assuming they managed to fill the three developer positions they were intending to when this interview was given last year and no one has left since then, that’s 5 full time employees to 5 board members. I can’t find more up-to-date numbers on the employee count unfortunately.

Its not always about suing others.

You’re right, sometimes it’s also about straight-up begging the public through a catchy musical number to not use your brand name generically

Wow, Garry is a real person?

I wish Helldivers 2 would come to Xbox! It does have FSR too actually, it’s supposedly FSR 1 though…

Isn’t it just Alan Wake 2 that’s exclusive to Epic? Control an Alan Wake are both on Steam.

Just to be clear, there aren’t micro-transactions in the game, are there?

I’m probably a bit late to reply, but… He was @ mentioned in the body of the original post, which Mastodon would have notified him of because mas.to is federating. Opening the notification would bring him to this thread on Mastodon, where everything would appear as it normally does when viewing a thread on Mastodon. From there, you can hold a conversation as normal with notifications and all. Unless you were looking at instance URLs, you probably wouldn’t even notice the user you’re replying to isn’t on Mastodon themselves.

Beauty of federation! It (mostly) just works!