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Minecraft Monday

by Jackson on January 10, 2011 at 12:00 am
Posted In: support external awesomeness, video games

Good morning, everyone. You may recall my first post about Minecraft, in which I gave an introduction to Minecraft and briefly shared my gaming experience. Well, since then the game has gone into beta, seeing a slight price increase and a handful of new features and bug fixes, and I continue to play lots of Minecraft.

And by lots, I mean lots. I haven’t played video games with any regularity in over a year, but on the weekends I will spend hours upon hours playing Minecraft, destroying my sleep schedule to complete building projects and mine diamonds. It is fiendishly addictive, in part from the sense of accomplishment at hauling a big lode of gold back to your safebox without dying, or from completing a big building project. It’s also exciting to explore uncharted areas, whether forests, islands, deserts or caves.

Today, I’d like to share with you a building project that I recently completed:

The Domosphere.

This past weekend, I built an addition to the Domosphere. The addition is not strictly a dome, as you can see, but is kind of a stretched-out oval shape:

A lever opens the front door to the Domosphere.

Have you been playing tons of Minecraft? Has it stolen your life from you, robbing you of sleep and normal social interaction? Have you built towering monolithic structures and posted pictures of them on the internet? If you have, please share them with us, because I would like to see the awesome things that you’re building.

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Media Mediated: Minecraft

by Jackson on December 1, 2010 at 10:36 pm
Posted In: video games

I’ve been meaning to post another “Media Mediated” entry and criticize some of your favorite music, or maybe explain why you need to be reading MS Paint Adventures, but unfortunately my brain has been colonized by Minecraft. Minecraft is a computer game, currently in public alpha, where you collect stuff and build stuff during the day, and at night the zombies come out. It is like the love child of The Sims, a first person shooter, and your old NES. I’m not sure how that works biologically but that’s how it is.

So, I built a ginormous hall!

Another good name for it would have been “Le Chateau Ginormé.”

Inside my giant hall I built a passageway that leads into the caves. There is a door to keep out the spiders.

Inside the caves, I brave untold dangers and shine a light into the dark in search of gold and iron and stuff.

Minecraft is tons of fun, and at approximately $15 (9.95 euros), it’s a great purchase if you don’t want to get anything done ever. The buy includes not only the alpha, but all future upgrades and editions, including the final version which will sell for 20 euros. The alpha comes with a multiplayer version, which I am eager to try out but have not yet had time to, what with all the Minecraft I’ve been playing. It is available for purchase and download at Minecraft.net.

If I am going to get any comics done at all, they will probably have to be all Minecraft comics from here on out. I will change the name of the site to “Minecraft Minecraftedy,” and Howard will be made out of pixels.

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