The developers of the Minecraft sandbox game spoke about the upcoming innovations.

A screenshot of the Infiniminer gameplay that inspired Marcus Persson to create a block structure for the Minecraft game world. Minecraft’s predecessor was Infiniminer, created by U.S. developer Zachary Bart in 2009. Bart had his own Zachtronics studio, in which he developed puzzle games. One of his games, Infinitiminer, was a multi-player competitive game in which players, divided into teams, had to search and mine ores in a procedurally generated world in order to bring them to the surface and get points for it.

A month later, Bart released an update for this game, but the code for this update did not go through obfuscation, as a result of which it was decompiled and extracted from binary files. This leak of source code on the Internet has led third-party developers to create custom modifications and client applications to exploit vulnerabilities in the Infinitiminer code and make cheat codes. Bart decided that he could not profit from selling copies of Infinitiminer, lost interest in the development of the project and abandoned it.