Is there a reason the room icons have to be humongous, at least in the web version on PC?

Other than that, looks great.

The remote code execution isn’t “via a text file”. It’s via a link in a text file, which Notepad now lets you actually click.

Just don’t click on links you don’t know the destination of (Notepad shows the destination for https links at least, on hover) and you don’t have any remote code executing.

The gameplay being too similar is a bogus argument Microsoft’s AI probably snuck in there. I mentioned it to support my point that the DMCA complaint isn’t about the birch trees specifically, but that’s definitely not an argument that would have worked out legally for Microsoft.

Patents could work out, like for Nintendo in the Palworld case. But DMCA is a copyright dispute, patent law doesn’t apply here. And who knows if they even have any relevant patents to accuse this game of violating.

Of course. I was just bringing it up as a supporting argument to why the DMCA isn’t specifically about that image or the trees on it.

But yeah, gameplay isn’t protected by copyright, so that argument from microsoft is just bogus.

Doesn’t matter. Copyright protects identity, not likeness. Valve even says in the email to the dev that Microsoft said they outright stole Minecraft’s exact assets. Because just looking the same isn’t copyright infringement.

Microsoft also complained about the gameplay being stolen too, which doesn’t fall under copyright at all.

So the DMCA definitely wasn’t justified, no.

all because of a screenshot of birch trees

Worth noting, that image was given as an example of how the game looks similar to Minecraft. It was not the basis of the complaint. Microsoft also claimed the gameplay is stolen as well, according to Valve. So it’s definitely not about the trees themselves.

This Reddit post has the actual email from Valve to the dev.

I think this is definitely not a fight Microsoft can win (without a war of attrition I mean), and they seem to agree because they revoked the complaint by now. But there’s other blocks not featured on this image that would make a much stronger case imo. Stone bricks and planks look identical imo and definitely can be made unique looking if the dev wanted to.

I agree in general, never liked Python at all, but this part:

Why so many different ways to declare an array-like structure? Tuples, Sets, Dicts, Lists? Dude… ffs, I know each one supposedly has a “different” purpose, I literally don’t see any good benefits on it. It just makes me more confuse.

It just speaks of your inexperience. You mention Java in the title, you’ve never worked with HashMap and other basic collections? This isn’t something Python changed, it’s a staple in modern programming languages. And with “modern” I mean that Map was added to Java in version 1.2.