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Xbox Live Indie Game FortressCraft - better known as "that game that looks an awful lot like Minecraft" - has sold 750,000 units. Word of the achievement comes from developer Adam Sawkins' Twitter.

As Eurogamer points out, the game has taken heat for being a Minecraft clone. "You can spend ages creating amazing things in it, but Minecraft's never been about the creative aspect, any more than [Grand Theft Auto] is about making sculptures out of buses," Sawkins told the site. "FortressCraft, on the other hand, has focused almost entirely on the creative aspect."

Sawkins revealed last August that FortressCraft had earned over a million dollars. The question is if FortressCraft can hit that million-unit mark in the face of competition from daddy Minecraft, which hits Xbox Live Arcade on May 9.

#minecraft The creator of FortressCraft resents the allegation he simply copied Minecraft when his game released over the Xbox Live Indie Games channel about a year ago. "There's nothing that FortressCraft shares with Minecraft that it does not also share with Infiniminer," Adam Sawkins, FortressCraft's creator, told Eurogamer, "which pre-dates Minecraft." More »

Minecraft is such a successful formula that it's making money even for games that aren't Minecraft. Take, for example, FortressCraft, an Xbox Live Indie game whose title and gameplay are eerily similar to Mojang's indie megahit, almost as if that were the express purpose of the game.

According to developer ProjectorGames, FortressCraft has become the highest-grossing XBLIG release ever, bringing in over a million bucks with approximately 350,000 copies sold. To be fair, the developer thinks of it more as an amalgam of Dwarf Fortress and Minecraft, and plans to add more divergent elements in the future, but we're not sure that's how the people buying it think of it.

In any case, ProjectorGames should probably hang onto that million, because sales might slow a bit when it has to compete with for-real Minecraft.

#greatartistssteal FortressCraft, a new game on the Xbox 360 which is, to put it kindly, borrowing gameplay elements from indie smash Minecraft, has proven about as popular as you'd expect, given you can't actually get Minecraft on the Xbox 360. More »

"Currently under development Fortress Craft is a game about construction, survival and destruction.

Explore vast domains and mould them in your image. Construct your own world from the materials around and defend it against would be attackers.

FortressCraft: Chapter 1 - The Creation is scheduled for released on XBox Live Indie Games this spring and will allow you and a group of friends to be masters of your own world.

A game by ProjectorGames

Chapter 1 - The Creation

Build Your Own World

Take the world that is given to you, or level the lands and start from scratch.

With the first chapter of FortressCraft you have free reign over remodelling the world you find yourself in.

Infinite resources. A collosal world. The only limit is your own imagination.

Multiplayer

With FortressCraft you can play with up to 31 friends over XBox Live.

Work constructively or torment your friends to shape a world in your own image."