October 2013
Beginner
384 pages
9h 30m
English
Minecraft, a sandbox construction game originally created by the Swedish programmer Markkus “Notch” Persson (http://is.gd/Y7W6Gy) and later absorbed by Notch’s company Mojang AB (http://is.gd/07x9Au), is more than a game: It is a phenomenon. In a gaming context, “sandbox” means that the game has no defined storyline; instead, players can roam around the game world and do pretty much whatever they want (see Figure 14.1).
FIGURE 14.1 Minecraft 1.5.2 for Microsoft Windows
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