What is MINECRAFT?

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we are covering what is minecraft so

back in 2009 a version of the game

Minecraft went online for PC gamers to

try out it was called an alpha build

meaning it was very much in flux and

would be adapted and updated as users

gave feedback minecraft had a very

unique look

harkening back to the days when games

were made of pixel art I hesitate to

really call Minecraft a game as it's

much more of an experience and aiming it

solely a game might undercut its impact

what you do in Minecraft is very much up

to you the basic mechanic though is that

you wander through this world and

breakdown resources that you find which

allow you to then build your own

structures weapons etc some resources

are difficult to find

so exploration is also key there are

four modes that you can play in the game

the first is survival where you have a

life bar you must find resources and

build while also being on the lookout

for enemies such as zombies and

something unique to Minecraft called a

creeper if you want to just build which

many players do you can play via the

creative mode which gives you access to

all the resources in the game and allows

you to navigate your map by flying so

you can build all sorts of giant

structures people try to build

recreations of real-life landmarks or

objects from popular fiction or even

just massive sprawling castles for their

character to inhabit the third mode is

called adventure mode where you can

build or experience adventures built by

other players

maybe they build a really dangerous map

that you must navigate safely this is a

chance to share fun adventures with

others or just play maps that others

have created lastly there's spectator

mode where you can visit maps without

fears you're not really interacting with

their world at all this is best if you

just want to see fun creations and

wander through the maps without the

restrictions of it being an actual

adventure maybe you see someone's really

cool creation and you want to see it

in-game so you'd use spectator mode to

check it out yourself they won't even

know you're on their map as you're

totally invisible

so was this successful yes by January

2011 minecraft surpassed 1 million

purchases and at this point there was no

advertising except for word-of-mouth

creator Markus Persson known as notch

began working on the game alone but

eventually created the company Mo yang

to hold the profits he was getting

eventually with the sky rocketing in the

game's popularity notch began looking

for a corporation to buy minecraft and

ended up selling the mo yang company in

the intellectual property rights to

Microsoft for 2.5 billion dollars in

2014 two point five billion dollars now

let's see how profitable minecraft

became in 2014 minecraft is one of the

best-selling video games of all time

with about 60 million copies sold and a

hundred million users it had branched

out to consoles becoming one of the most

popular and most played games on both

the Xbox and Playstation online stores

now the Microsoft had the intellectual

property rights they began to make money

by licensing it out such as the game

Minecraft story mode

which was an adventure game set in the

Minecraft world and created by Telltale

Games even now quite a few years after

its inception minecraft continues to be

a huge platform YouTube and twitch our

massive venues where people will create

and play while others watch and comment

even schools are beginning to get on

board with students from around the

world getting free or cheap access to

Minecraft the British Museum even

launched a plan to recreate its building

and its exhibits all inside the game

with help from the public

there's even an annual convention called

Minecon which held its most recent

convention in London with about 10,000

attendees and is the largest convention

held for one single video game another

exciting thing for Minecraft future is

the news that it will be available for a

few different virtual reality and

augmented reality systems on the screen

you're seeing a demonstration of

Minecraft being viewed through an

augmented reality system called

microsoft hololens

this will get people a whole new way to

view their minecraft creations and

incredibly immersive ways if you think

that looks cool check out this part

where they can use the hololens to

display their minecraft level on a flat

surface

mind-blowing minecraft while at its core

is indeed a video game is really a

sandbox you can engage with the world

however you want by building or by

destroying by flying through the skies

and just looking or by trying to survive

the darkness and the horrors that come

out at night this is a game but it's

also a learning tool and a way for

people to communicate with others from

all over the world that is minecraft so

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