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Pretty cool, any reason why he is doing this? Also would be awesome if someone recorded this from the start.

It's for Ludum Dare (http://www.ludumdare.com/), a 48-hour game competition. It's quite common for entrants to record their development sessions and release a video at the end, so I'm sure Notch will do something similar.

Sounds pretty awesome, had never heard of it, shall definitely check it out.

Sadly because he had to switch streaming providers, the actual recording is split between livestream and justin.tv/twitch.tv. However, you can definitely go back and replay it all if you know where to look. Markus is also taking screenshots ever x seconds (sorry, no idea how big x is) which he'll use to make a video for his entry. That should give you a 10,000ft view of the process he went through to develop his game.

I believe that he permanently deleted his livestream account due to huge charges that were racked up due to the high traffic of the broadcast (something along the lines of $4,000 I want to say?), so the recorded video is no longer available at livestream last time I checked.

More like $17,000 I believe.

I recall seeing stop-motion videos from either previous Ludum Dare competitions or something similar, compiled from a whole bunch of screenshots like you say.

I'd be more interested in seeing how the actual code evolves - maybe setting something to check it into a VCS every time you save would work.

Figuring out a decent visualisation would be hard though.

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