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1	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ox10c.png]]
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3	''0x10[[superscript:c]]'' (pronounced "ten to the c", hexadecimal for 16[[superscript:12]], [[TimeAbyss the number of years passed in-story since 1988]]) was a ScienceFiction [[SimulationGame space sim]] developed by Markus Persson (a.k.a "Notch", the man behind ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}''). It was later canceled following developer disinterest. Gameplay footage of a pre-alpha demo can be seen [[https://youtu.be/FUqeH2FH1dE here]].
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5	The game was centered around a large group of {{Human Popsicle}}s who find themselves with the unfortunate luck of waking up from their hibernation to find that the computers controlling their sleeping chambers have wildly malfunctioned, awakening them in [[TimeAbyss the year 281,474,976,712,644 CE]]. To make matters worse, [[NaturalEndOfTime star formation is long over, black holes are everywhere, and the future universe is well on its way to the Big Rip.]]
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7	What separated ''0x10[[superscript:c]]'' from other spaceship sims, apart from its lo-fi graphics, was its fully programmable 16-bit emulated computers. Notch anticipated a cottage industry springing up in which programmers developed software -- including games, graphical front-ends, and viruses -- for the in-game computers.
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10	!!Tropes featured in ''0x10[[superscript:c]]'' include:
11	* AfterTheEnd: Or rather, right in the middle of it.
12	* AlternateRealityGame: Notch ran two of these in the leadup to the release of the game.
13	* ApocalypseHow: The game ''starts'' in the midst of a ApocalypseHow/ClassX4.
14	* ComputerVirus: The game would have included computers that can be programmed and networked. It was inevitable.
15	-->'''Q:''' How will you stop malicious viruses etc?\
16	'''Notch:''' I won't stop viruses, the players will have to do that themselves.
17	* ExpendableAlternateUniverse: WordOfGod has stated that when killed, the PlayerCharacter and their CoolStarship would have respawned as alternate reality versions of themselves.
18	* HumanPopsicle: The player begins the game after awakening from stasis.
19	* MagicalComputer: ''0x10[[superscript:c]]'''s computers weren't ''too'' magical, but they were an enormously powerful tool within the gameworld capable of everything from automating ship functions to hacking into other ships to [[GameWithinAGame playing simple video games]].
20	* NaturalEndOfTime: The game is set during the dying millenia of the universe.
21	* NoProductSafetyStandards: This all came about because of a byte order error in the software used to operate cryogenic sleep capsules.
22	* OurGraphicsWillSuckInTheFuture: Invoked. The game's graphics were low-poly and (apart from computer monitors and planets) untextured, with the intent to make the game look like the future circa the early '80s.

Context VideoGame / ZeroXOneZeroC