MINECRAFT

Minecraft is a sandbox indie game originally created by Swedish programmer Markus Notch and later developed and published by Mojang.

GENERAL

The creative and building aspects of Minecraft allow players to build constructions out of textured cubes in a 3D procedurally generated world. Other activities in the game include exploration, gathering resources, crafting, and combat. Gameplay in its commercial release has two principal modes: survival, which requires players to acquire resources and maintain their health and hunger; and creativity, where players have an unlimited supply of resources, the ability to fly, and no hunger.

Minecraft is an open world game that has no specific goals for the player to accomplish, allowing players a large amount of freedom in choosing how to play the game

Game play

The game world is essentially composed of rough 3D objects—mainly cubes—that are arranged in a fixed grid pattern and represent different materials, such as dirt, stone, various ores, water, and tree trunks.

In this mode, players have to gather natural resources. Depending on the difficulty, monsters spawn at darker places on the map, necessitating that the player builds a shelter at night. The mode also features a health bar which is depleted by attacks from monsters, falls, drowning, falling into lava, suffocation, starvation, and other events. Players also have a hunger bar, which must be periodically refilled by eating food in-game, except in peaceful mode, in which the hunger bar does not drain. There are a wide variety of items that players can craft in Minecraft.

Survival mode

In creative mode, players have access to most of the resources and items in the game through the inventory menu, and can place or remove them instantly. Players, able to fly freely around the game world, do not take environmental or mob damage, and are not affected by hunger.

Creative mode

Multiplayer on Minecraft is available through player-hosted servers and enables multiple players to interact and communicate with each other on a single world. May be enabled to allow fighting between players. In 2013 Mojang announced Minecraft Realms, a server hosting service intended to enable children to run server multiplayer games easily and safely.

Multiplayer

In July 2010, PC Gamers listed Minecraft as the fourth-best game .In December of that year, Good Game selected Minecraft as their choice for Best Downloadable Game of the year .Indie awarded the game the 2010 Indie of the Year award as chosen by voters . It was also awarded Game of the Year by PC Gamer UK.On May 5, 2011, Minecraft was selected as one of the 80 games that would be displayed at the Smithsonian American Art Museum

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