Minecraft

[peaches]

You might say that Minecraft hit the big time today. Featured in a Penny Arcade comic amusing even if you havent played the game developer Mojang Specifications will surely reap thousands of new sales, despite the games alpha status and $9 price tag.

Im fortunate enough to have been in on the joke I use that term intentionally, and Ill explain later for a couple months now. Ive dabbled in mashing mountains, cutting down trees and slaughtering a variety of fauna, all in service of building man-made structures in an otherwise pristine natural environment.


There is no explicit point to Minecraft. The game sets you free in a randomly generated world of stone, sand, water, grass and trees. This forms the raw material for towers, tools, weapons, armor and food. You dont need any of this stuff. The game will let you survive with nothing, provided you can avoid the threatening creatures that come out when the sun goes down.

Inevitably, you will build, not because you have to, but because you can. Heck, for $9, its your right to start plowing into the landscape. My particular idea, early on, was to hack up a sprawling network of islands and create a massive sand tower. It is, I think, a beautiful structure, with windows to let the light in and little lookouts on the top of each corner. When it was finished, some five hours after I started, I scrambled to the top and admired the view, looking past the nearby islands Id flattened.

Then, I started thinking of what to build next, along with which animals Id have to kill and how many countrysides Id have to destroy. Thats about when I stopped playing Minecraft.

Im not self-righteous enough to say that my interest in Minecraft waned because of some moral conflict. This is, after all, a video game, and Ive done far worse on other virtual playgrounds. But I did get the joke, which is to say I completed the game.

Minecraft is a commentary on human behavior. It puts you in a sandbox with unlimited power and one condition: To create anything, you must destroy something else. Its a lesson on natural resources, which might seem painfully obvious if so many other games didnt stuff players with unlimited ammo and health-restoring chicken hidden in trash cans. It is a beautiful model of humanitys need to destroy and rebuild.

That message is never forced on the player. Its implied in the system Minecraft creates. And when the revelation strikes, as youre digging into another mountain, chopping down another tree, butchering another cow, the jokes on you.

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I myself have been playing since january , the game is just awesome and gets you out of boredom easily all classic and smp/survival.

[Bloopbloop]

Its 10 EUROS.

Or about 15$

[peaches]

Then the review guy lied to us , I have premium though and it's worth the money ( I bought it for ~14$)