I am on holiday, and yesterday traveled to the land of Minecraft for a number of hours. (Approximately the number where the marginal joy of playing Minecraft is equal to the marginal suffering of wondering if I should stop playing Minecraft.) In case you haven’t played Minecraft, it goes like this: you appear in the middle of a vast natural landscape largely made of blocks of different substances, as well as some (distinctly blocky) non-block entities, such as pigs or levers. Each block is about half as big as you. As you walk, more world forms indefinitely at the horizon, in a variety of ‘biomes’—swooping mountains, flowered meadows, desert lakes, forested hills, apparently oceanic islands covered with giant mushrooms—each full of characteristic landforms and objects and plants and animals. You can ‘break’ stuff from the landscape and pick up the resulting object, keeping it in one of your thirty-six pockets, or something. You can transform stuff into a vast array of other stuff, by combining it in recipes or cooking it, for instance.
Mine-craft
Mine-craft
Mine-craft
I am on holiday, and yesterday traveled to the land of Minecraft for a number of hours. (Approximately the number where the marginal joy of playing Minecraft is equal to the marginal suffering of wondering if I should stop playing Minecraft.) In case you haven’t played Minecraft, it goes like this: you appear in the middle of a vast natural landscape largely made of blocks of different substances, as well as some (distinctly blocky) non-block entities, such as pigs or levers. Each block is about half as big as you. As you walk, more world forms indefinitely at the horizon, in a variety of ‘biomes’—swooping mountains, flowered meadows, desert lakes, forested hills, apparently oceanic islands covered with giant mushrooms—each full of characteristic landforms and objects and plants and animals. You can ‘break’ stuff from the landscape and pick up the resulting object, keeping it in one of your thirty-six pockets, or something. You can transform stuff into a vast array of other stuff, by combining it in recipes or cooking it, for instance.