Minecraft
Minecraft is a sandbox construction indie video game
where you can build anything imagineable. It is also about blocks and
collecting. The game is inspired by
Infiniminer, a block-based digging/building game, Dungeon Keeper and
Dwarf Fortress.
The game involves players creating and destroying various
types of blocks in a 3D environment. The player takes an avatar that
can destroy or create blocks, forming fantastic structures, creations
and artwork across the various multiplayer servers in multiple game
modes.
The game offers two different game modes. In the creative game
mode you can build and destroy blocks to make any sort of object. With
an infinite amount of each block to build, players can build huge
structures such as skywalks, castles, and buildings. The other game
mode is called survival and represents the main focus of development.
In the survival mode, players can build shelters to fend off spawning
enemy mobs.
The game is written in Java and has been in development since
May 2009.
Minecraft
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Price
$14.95
Developer
Mojang
Website
www.minecraft.net
Requirements
Sun JVM
Support:
Blog,
Wiki,
Tutorials,
Forums,
The Word of Notch,
Twitter,
Facebook
Selected
Reviews:
The
Bottom Feeder, Gamerblast,
Gaming
Angels, YBN
Review, OMGN
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Features include:
- Simple controls make the game extremely playable
- Focused on creativity and building
- Complex systems can be built using the in-game physics
engine
- Game world is procedurally generated with no hard limit to
the gaming world
- Community-made modifications that alter the gameplay
- Over 100 different types of blocks which are integral to
the in-game environment. They include Air, Stone, Grass, Snow, Dirt,
Water, Water Source, Lava, Lava Source, Sand, Sandstone, Gravel, Gold
Ore, Iron Ore, Diamond Ore, Redstone Ore, Lapis Lazuli Ore, Clay Block,
Coal Ore, Bedrock, Ice, Wood, Birch Wood, Pine/Spurce Wood, Leaves,
Cactus, Sugar Cane, Pumpkins, yellow and red Flowers, brown and red
Mushrooms, dead and living Shrubs and Tall Grass
- 14 unique mobs. The term "mob" is short for
"mobile" and has been used as generic term for moving entities in games
since the first MUDs were created
- Allied: Wolf (tamed)
- Passive: Chicken, cow, pig, sheep, squid.
- Neutral: Zombie Pigman, Wolf (wild)
- Hostile: Creeper, Ghast, Skeleton, Slime, Spider, Spider
Jockey, and Zombie
- Texture packs to change the in-game textures of blocks,
items, mobs and the graphical user interface
- Custom textures
- Crafting
- Throwable eggs
- Server-side inventory
- Leaf decay
- Single and multiplayer games
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