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Persson also included character models from another early Zombie Town project. The game was a Java applet running in a browser, written using the LWJGL graphic output library. The test version of Minecraft was published on May 17, 2009 on the forum of the TIGSource.com website, in the “Feedback” section (Russian reviews). Persson posted a screenshot of the game, a web link to the Java applet and a brief description of the game on the forum: “The main source of inspiration for this game is Infiniminer, but I’m going to make it look like Dwarf Fortress in terms of gameplay.”

The game received very positive reviews from forum participants, who began to publish their screenshots of the game with various structures in the subject. TIGSource brought together indie game developers such as Persson himself – this website had a lot of influence, thanks to which it was possible to spread news about the game through word of mouth.