Hello. Today the topic is MInecraft. For those of you that
don’t know what the hell I’m talking about, Minecraft is a computer game
dissimilar from any that have come before it. Everything is blocky including
the animals and the people but the graphics are fine. The movement scheme is up
to par as you move across this blocky world, constantly discovering new
biospheres and discover whole new uses for materials you thought useless.
The history of Minecraft is actually pretty incredible as
well. For the first I think 6 years, Notch programmed this game in Java by
himself. No team, no office building, no real support in a language that was
never intended nor designed for that. He made it almost free and constantly
available to the web from day one as he moved through his first Alpha to what
it is now, constantly using user feedback and viewing the mods people were
using as ideas to help him better the game, and better it got. We went from a
simple exploring game, it something filled with wolves and wild cats! Pigs,
cows, and chickens dot an ever-changing landscape that sprawls off in all directions
as far as the eye can see during the day, and unspeakable terrors during the
night. It’s an amazing game that you can get lost in for hours, if for no other
reason than because the world is always new, always random. It never repeats.
It is a game of mindless oblivion, which is pretty impressive for a game where
the player has no purpose.
That’s right, I said no purpose. There is no end goal of
Minecraft, no final destination or quest to follow. You are (or at least were)
the last Minecraftian and, as far as you can tell, the only Minecraftian to
have ever existed. You build a structure, hide from the badies at night, try to
make your way in whatever way you want. You can be a farmer, an explorer, or an
artist. You can live in a small dirt hut, or a huge mansion, limited only by
your imagination. That’s how a game with no purpose is so addictive and so
popular. That is one of the many things that set it apart from any other
computer games to date. Every world is truly unique and every world is your
world.
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wow is better...
ReplyDeleteWoW is addicting! I had to quit before coming to ISU or else I would have never had gotten my homework done.
DeleteThis game sounds cool, i like how its only limited by your imagination. I feel that how the creater used user feedback was very intelligent
ReplyDeleteNice, but what a time suck! I don't think I could play a game where my character had no purpose what-so-ever. Interesting concept though.
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