Minecraft is a game whose immense success is puzzling to those who know nothing about it. One who looks at it reveals the underwhelming simple pixilated graphics, which stand in stark opposition to shiny high-resolution look of today’s most popular video games. And yet despite this Minecraft has already sold over 3,800,000 copies, with another 8000 being sold per day currently. So what is it about this game that makes it so popular? What is it about it that transcends its aesthetics?
Minecraft is a game set in a vast world where everything is subdivided into blocks. At its most basic, it is like a virtual “Lego.” These blocks can be built and destroyed, allowing for huge structures set in the mountains, fields, forests, anywhere you want to build, of its randomly generated terrain. But that's where I step in. I dream of a pixelated blocky world, where intensely skeleton dry and fiery deserts, live far far away from glacial, polar tundras...
(Not entirely written by me)
For the Sake of Minecraftia, and in the name of Notch,
I always thought it would be cool if the MC world were a "globe", in which, if you travel far enough in the same direction you will evetualy wrap around to your starting point. Somthing like a real planet. This would allow for a north and south pole (arctic and antarctic for snowy areas) and jungles/deserts around the equator. All biomes could then be correctly placed depending upon latitude.
The only real problem is you'd have to travel far to obtain certain wood types and find snow depending upon your starting point.
I always thought it would be cool if the MC world were a "globe", in which, if you travel far enough in the same direction you will evetualy wrap around to your starting point. Somthing like a real planet. This would allow for a north and south pole (arctic and antarctic for snowy areas) and jungles/deserts around the equator. All biomes could then be correctly placed depending upon latitude.
The only real problem is you'd have to travel far to obtain certain wood types and find snow depending upon your starting point.
Someone make this a m- ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNOTOAD
If it's already a mod: SOMEONE LINK ME
OT: Yeah I kind of saw where this post was going right away, nicely written though.
Minecraft is a game whose immense success is puzzling to those who know nothing about it. One who looks at it reveals the underwhelming simple pixilated graphics, which stand in stark opposition to shiny high-resolution look of today’s most popular video games. And yet despite this Minecraft has already sold over 3,800,000 copies, with another 8000 being sold per day currently. So what is it about this game that makes it so popular? What is it about it that transcends its aesthetics?
Minecraft is a game set in a vast world where everything is subdivided into blocks. At its most basic, it is like a virtual “Lego.” These blocks can be built and destroyed, allowing for huge structures set in the mountains, fields, forests, anywhere you want to build, of its randomly generated terrain. But that's where I step in. I dream of a pixelated blocky world, where intensely skeleton dry and fiery deserts, live far far away from glacial, polar tundras...
(Not entirely written by me)
The only real problem is you'd have to travel far to obtain certain wood types and find snow depending upon your starting point.
Someone make this a m- ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNOTOAD
If it's already a mod: SOMEONE LINK ME
OT: Yeah I kind of saw where this post was going right away, nicely written though.