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The Joy of Computer Science and Engineering

First off, if you haven’t tried Minecraft yet, it is a ridiculously addictive game in which you, the player, dig tunnels, collect materials, craft items, and build up the world around you. You explore underground caverns, build houses, castles, farms, etc. It’s a ton of fun (and definitely a good way to waste hours of your life). If you haven’t seen it before, check it out.

I run a Minecraft server for a few friends of mine, and even if I wasn’t in the game, I wanted to be able to chat with them and run server comands on the go. So I wrote a VERY quick and extremely dirty (and buggy) Minecraft chat client for the Blackberry that will connect to a server, and let you chat and run commands.

BerryCraft Chat:

It has a few limitations – specifically that it will only connect to a server that has minecraft.net authentication turned off. It wouldn’t be too difficult to insert this functionality into it, but I banged this out in a couple days and don’t really have time to put any polish on it.

I don’t see a huge interest in it, but if you do happen to try a copy, or would like the source to build something bigger/better, shoot me a message or comment, and I’ll send it over. Works on any blackberry.

I tweeted this as well, but I just wanted to thank everyone who has been supportive of both the Blackberry Game Development Tutorial, as well as our commercial release of Galactic Blast! – over the first week, we sold over 100 copies! It’s a great feeling to know people are out there enjoying your game.

Thanks again everyone!

I’m very excited to say Galactic Blast is now officially available for purchase from App World!!

Pick it up now and save the galaxy, right from your Blackberry!

And for all the aspiring developers out there, don’t forget to check out the tutorial to make games just like this one.