Creepers Were an Accident
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Sometimes, the most interesting and beloved part of a video game comes as a complete accident. In Street Fighter, this was the story of combos. In Minecraft, there are creepers.
In a short excerpt before the release of 2012’s Minecraft: The Story of Mojang documentary, Notch revealed that creepers were only born as a result of a coding error.
“The creepers were a mistake,” he said in the since-deleted clip. “I don’t have any modeling programs to do the models, I just write them in code, and I accidentally made [creepers] tall, instead of long, so it was like a tall thing with four little feet—and that became the creeper, as opposed to a pig.”
Who knew that Minecraft’s most iconic mob type was actually supposed to just be a pig?
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