What is it?
Minecraft is a game that was created by a Swedish programer named Markus Notch, later made popular by a swedish company known as Mojong and currently owned by Microsoft. The object of the game is that you are a blocky character that roams in a blocky universe, and you need to survive here by collecting items for building materials and kill creatures/animals around you in order to survive. It is also a place were aside from building with blocks to create your own imaginary world, a place to hide from creatures of the night that lurk in the shadows such as witches, zombies, spiders and much more.
Live Versions of the Game
There are live versions with in the game, where when connected to the internet, one can join a group of people and play games such as mega walls. A really fun game where you join a team in a color group of ether red, blue, green or yellow and compete against one another to destroy what is called a team's Wither. (That's the best way I can explain this).
Creative Mode & Survival Mode
A lot of people do not know what to think of this game, and often question its blocky appearance and its sometimes faded coloring. But I can honestly say myself, that it is a creative game that challenges the mind to create things out of blocks. Basically a virtual version of the popular Legos.
In this part, I just wanted to mention the Creative VS the Survival modes.
In the game, a player is able to choose whether he/she wants to play in Survival Mode or Creative Mode. Survival mode, allows the player to mine resources or chop down resources in order to build shelter and then hunt random animals for food and more resources such as leather and wool to craft certain things like a bed or armor. Creative mode allows the player to be able to have unlimited resources and basically be creative in building whatever he/she wants to. (You also have the ability to "fly" around basically, by pressing the space bar twice)
The images shown below are examples of a place that I myself have built in Minecraft. Basically a decent sized castle place with a large skull floating above.
Minecraft is available for both PC and Mac, and you can download it from their website by clicking this link here. It costs about $20.00 to download (purchase).
