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{{DISPLAYTITLE:''0x10^c''}}

{{Infobox video game

| title = '''''0x10^c'''''

| italic title = no

| image = 0x10c logo.png

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| released = Cancelled<ref name="cancel" />

| genre = [[Open world|Sandbox]], [[Space flight simulator game|Space simulation]]

| platforms = [[Microsoft Windows|Windows]], [[macOS|OS X]], [[Linux]]

| modes = [[Single-player]], [[multiplayer]]

}}

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'''''0x10^c''''' (pronounced "ten to the c")<ref>{{cite web|title=Minecraft's composer discusses Mojang's unreleased game, Notch's departure|work=Polygon|date=September 18, 2014 |url=https://www.polygon.com/2014/9/18/6351607/minecrafts-composer-discusses-mojang-unreleased-game-notchs-departure|access-date=9 July 2018}}</ref> wasis an [[Unfinished creative work|unfinished]] [[Open world|sandbox]] [[science fiction]] video game previously under development by [[Mojang AB]]. It was announced on April 3, 2012, by [[Markus Persson]], the game's lead designer.<ref name="Forbes">{{cite web|author=Knapp, Alex |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexknapp/2012/04/03/mojang-registers-website-for-its-new-game-0x10c/ |title=Mojang Registers Website For Its New Game '0x10c' |work=Forbes.com |date=April 3, 2012 |access-date=May 7, 2012}}</ref> The game was indefinitely postponed because Persson found himself burned out and demotivated after so much early effort were spent into planning and designing the game, up until the point that it "sucked out any fun from the project". Persson then stated he will instead most likely continue to work on smaller projects for the rest of his life, rekindling the reason he loves programming games in the first place.<ref name="IndefPostponement">{{cite web |last=Plafke |first=James |url=http://www.geek.com/games/notch-indefintely-shelves-mojangs-space-game-0x10c-1565266/ |title=Notch indefintely [sic] shelves Mojang's space game, 0x10c |date=August 13, 2013 |publisher=[[Geek.com]] |access-date=August 14, 2013 |archive-date=April 25, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160425185529/http://www.geek.com/games/notch-indefintely-shelves-mojangs-space-game-0x10c-1565266/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> The game was later cancelled.<ref name="cancel">{{cite web|url=https://www.engadget.com/2013/08/20/notch-explains-why-0x10c-cancelled/|title=Notch explains decision to axe 0x10c, concentrate on 'smaller' games |date=2013-08-20 |access-date=2020-11-11 |first1=Daniel |last1=Cooper |website=engadget.com}}</ref>

The announced features included a fully working virtual computer, random encounters, an advanced economy system, and also single and [[multiplayer]] modes in a consistent universe, or "Multiverse".<ref name="Forbes" /> The game takes place in the year AD 281,474,976,712,644<ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2144098,00.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130523202641/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2144098,00.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=May 23, 2013|title=The Mystery of Minecraft|author=Harry McCracken |___location=Stockholm|magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]]}}</ref> (around 281.5 trillion years [[Timeline of the far future|into the future]]) after people start waking up from "deep sleep" caused by a bug in deep sleep cells that were released in 1988. {{code|0x}} is a prefix in many [[High-level programming language|high-level languages]] used to indicate a [[hexadecimal]] [[Literal (computer programming)|literal]]. 10^C in hexadecimal is equivalent to 16¹² in decimal, which equals 281,474,976,710,656, the number of years passed in the story since 1988.

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=== Art ===

[[File:0x10c gameplay mockup.jpg|thumb|right|A mockup of what the game might look like made by Jonatan Pöljö, the game's artist]]

"The style is pixel art meets modern 3D. It's influenced by bright, vivid [[Science fiction|sci-fi]], and real-world functional spaceship design to go with ''0x10^c'''s realistic tone," said Jonatan Pöljö, an artist ofon the game's team.<ref>{{cite web|url = http://0x10c.com/2012/11/more-mock-ups-from-the-artist/|title = More mock-ups from the artist|date = November 1, 2012|access-date = November 3, 2012|publisher = Mojang|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20121102131104/http://0x10c.com/2012/11/more-mock-ups-from-the-artist/|archive-date = November 2, 2012|url-status = dead|df = mdy-all}}</ref>

===Soundtrack===

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==External links==

* [{{official|https://web.archive.org/web/20120507221934/http://www.0x10c.com/ ''Official website (mirror)'']}}

* [https://web.archive.org/web/20120406150220/http://0x10cforum.com/ ''0x10c'' forum]

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