Video Game Addictions: MineCraft
Video Game Addictions: MineCraft
Some games are too addictive to put down. Welcome to WatchMojo.com and today we’ll be taking a look at real-time simulation game MineCraft.
Available exclusively for the computer, MineCraft is a browser-based sandbox building game. It is based on creating anything that you can imagine out of textured cubes. Despite occupying a low-res 3D world, the game has managed to pull in millions of gamers with its unrestricted focus on imagination and adventure.
MineCraft was created in 2009 by the independent video game studio “Mojang.” Forged by an incredibly small development team using the low-tech Java platform, its grassroots approach has been supplemented by is focus on word of mouth advertising.
Presenting gamers with two versions, the original “Classic” mode is free to play, and drops you in the middle of a vast virtual world. There, you can become accustomed to the game’s mechanics by placing and removing an unlimited amount of blocks with friends.
In the official pay-to-download version, monsters roam the vast landscape and force confrontations. Adding a further sense of peril, players confront hazards like lava and steep falls, with death causing you to respawn at your original save point. To avoid this, players must refill their health meter by eating a variety of foods.
Featuring a greater variety of building blocks to collect and use, you must now mine these minerals from the ground, in order to add them to your inventory.
Using these, you must quickly learn to build yourself shelter and weaponry. Doing so will protect you from the many kinds of hostile creatures roaming the world, and the vicious monster raids that occur at night. You must also learn to use blocks to build helpful tools, such as mine carts, and chests that safe keep your many acquired items.
Progressing through the game, it quickly becomes apparent that structures must be planned very carefully, and that there is no limit to how far you can travel. As you venture outward from your starting position, the map is randomly generated. This means that there is no way to anticipate what you may come across.
Receiving regular updates and patches, gamer interest is also showing no sign of wavering. With its focus on collection, construction and exploration, it’s easy to see why MineCraft has become one of the most addictive games today.
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