Minecraft Video Game A game Minecraft played by
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Video Game A game. Minecraft played by electronically manipulating images produced by a computer program on a monitor or other display.
Genres of Video Games • • Indie Games (Minecraft) • Augmented reality Minecraft (Pokémon Go) Action (GTA) • Sand Box Virtual Reality • Open World Puzzle (Tetris) • FPS (COD) Dancing (Just Dance) Multiple Video Games Platform Games (Mario)
o Minecraft is a literal sandbox with infinite replay ability. The game is only limited by the confines of your imagination o A strong community. The players’ creations are Minecraft's own marketing campaign like Jacobs Cranberry who recreated the entire world of ‘Game of Thrones’. Minecraft o Its platform agnostic (multi platform) it first grown on PC but now on many platforms o It has been co-opted by children, which has made a house hold name. o Its not limited by genre o It fulfils our human instinct to bring order to chaos wilderness
Topic Notes Early days: Mojang with dates and key events Marcus Persson / “Notch” 17 May 2009 was the starting date; the game was made by Marcus Persson. In the first year it Minecraft passes 20, 000 sales. Mojang was founded to back up Minecraft. The first full version was released in 2011 The rise of Minecraft In 2011 it hit 4 million sales, the network in 2012 - £ 240 million and now is 2. 5 billion. (154 million sales). Minecraftcon was created in 2010 to promote the game Microsoft Takeover including conglomerate / vertical integration Markus 'Notch' Persson The Redmond company hadn’t always been particularly interested in Minecraft, at least if one-time Microsoftcontracted developer Peter Molyneux is to be believed. Minecraft They didn't miss it in late 2014. Following the launch of Minecraft's paid-for online server option, Realms, and ten days after the launch of Minecraft on Xbox One, it was announced that Notch and co. were to sell Mojang to Microsoft for a cool $2. 5 billion. The completion of the deal on November 5 2014 marked the end of the founders involvement with the company – Persson, Porser and Carl Manneh departed Mojang. Today: Multi-platform gaming Types of Minecraft game modes Different Playing Modes Creative Survival Adventure Mini Games The future? Standing at 144 million paid accounts and boasting a record of 74 million simultaneous players as of January 2018, and surely on its way to ousting Tetris as the top selling video game of all time, Minecraft doesn't show any signs of going anywhere. However there is rumours spreading for a sequel, popularity is declining but they are adding new feature
Minecraft ‘’Minecraft is what is known in the industry by a sandbox game’’
Sand Box A game wherein the player has been freed from the traditional video game structure and direction, and instead chooses what, when, and how they want to approach the available content. The term alludes to a child's sandbox (sandpit) without rules. Sandbox games generally employ an open -world setting, to facilitate the player’s freedom of choice. Minecraft
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The word "Minecraft" is a mash up of two verbs: to mine and to craft. Punching a dirt. Minecraft block and retrieving a dirt block to build with is the first verb — the mining. When you start "Minecraft, " it's the first thing you should do.
• Once you've retrieved enough blocks, the second thing you'll need to do is craft: combine the resources you've mined to Minecraft create more complex tools. • "Mining" for wood (punching a tree) enables you to create basic tools. Those basic tools enable you to mine more complex resources, which enable you to create more complex items and tools.
Every time you start a new world in "Minecraft, " it's unique. That is, levels are randomly generated based on a set of parameters. There are some constants: • The levels always contain the same materials (dirt, trees, water, etc. ) • There is a day/night cycle • At night, enemies appear and will attack you • You can only dig so deep below the world's surface before hitting bedrock • The world that spawns always has stuff to discover, whether it's crazy jungles or mountains or underground caves Minecraft
There's a "Creation" mode that enables Minecraft exactly that. No day/night cycle. No enemies. No mining if you don't want to mine. Just endless creation.
The Platforms - Reasons for Minecraft's success • Minecraft is one of those games that you can get on almost all of your devices • Game is developed primarily for a Mac and PC audience, but versions of the game are available on i. OS (for both i. Phone and i. Pad), Android and the Xbox 360. • An edition for the Xbox One was also planned following the console’s release. Minecraft While there is certainly compatibility issues between some of these platforms, due to various unavoidable limits and constraints, it does mean you can play Minecraft anywhere, in your living room on your TV, at your desk on your Mac or PC and on the go with the special Pocket Edition.
Points to make in a essay Minecraft was able to allow for almost every platform whereas Minecraft • Too many apps have suffered from only being able to be played on one or two platforms. • Minecraft made sure the game was available on most platforms. • Enabled them to make a lot of money!
Modding and Extension • Minecraft is home to a vibrant ‘modding’ community, with thousands of mods available to manipulate or extend your gameplay. Minecraft • Some mods have allowed players to add brand new items and gameplay dynamics to the game while others have allowed multiplayer Minecraft worlds to have their own meaningful economy. • By supporting modding, Mojang have provided an almost endless supply of extension strategies for when players get bored of the core gameplay. • This is a valuable trait to have in any app, especially when it powers an ability to manipulate what the app offers into something more useful.
• Even since the game’s official launch in 2009, the game has received six “major” updates amongst other, smaller incremental additions. Minecraft • ‘Most recently, Minecraft was updated with 1. 13 adding new Conduits are now properly waterlogged, Coral, Fish now have a 5% chance of dropping bone meal when killed, Squids now spawn only in rivers, oceans or beaches. Example to uses in Exam • The update was provided entirely free to owners of Minecraft, with no need to purchase DLC (downloadable content) or expansion packs.
Where the Minecraft Community communicate and what is discussed You. Tube – On You. Tube they do parody of popular songs, tutorial to let the creative expand more. Minecraft Social Media 650 tweets an hour FB 11 million likers Minecraft
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