
The Minecraft fans among you may recall that Notch had been working on a sandbox space game titled Ox10c (pronounced “Ten to the C”). The idea was that players could create a ship piece by piece and that each section (life support, oxygen, missiles) would take away from a limited amount of power. The ship itself would be controlled by a fully functioning 16 bit computer providing the capability for more programming-savvy players to really deck out their ship.
Unfortunately, the idea has been canned. According to Kotaku, Notch announced via livestream that he had no plans for Ox10c, although he had no problems with another developer taking up the project.
(Source: Kotaku)