For example going through foliage can be done almost instantly whereas breaking a granite block can take quite a while if you only use your bear hands. Breaking blocks can be quicker or slower depending on their type. Of course this is where crafting comes in. Every block can be broken off, collected and placed somewhere else. The game play revolves around exploring these landscapes and modifying them to suit your needs and sense of ego. Although the terrain and objects look like building blocks, the colors and lighting make them quite charming to the eye. Unlike most games these days the graphics in Minecraft are as blocky as a LEGO diorama, but that works to its advantage. Your generic character is inserted in a randomly generated corner of nature that can be anything from cavernous hills to searing deserts and frozen archipelagos. Minecraft is played through a first person perspective (or third person but that’s not very popular). That means that you can either fiddle around the game world or you can pursue your own objective or set of objectives (just as in real life, except here it’s for fun). That means that unlike most other games that come with strict objectives whether they’re beating the game or reaching level sixty, a sandbox game has no imposed objective. Although this is most likely a gross exaggeration, I firmly believe that if you haven’t ever heard of Minecraft you have been missing out on an important piece of digital entertainment. I think Minecraft is as popular as the Internet itself. Yet, for those that haven’t heard, a Swedish company has been satisfying our desire in digital form since 2009. Even we as grownups have little time left to explore the wilds. Unfortunately, kids have since lost the desire to wonder through nature and ultimately tame it.
They were crafting swords and armor to fight off the ghouls that came out at night in search of human flesh. They were creating tunnels and building powered railroads. They were making tools with what they could find among the trees and they’d mine the earth in search of precious metals.
A couple of decades ago, children were running up the hills, building tree houses and fortresses.
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