Escher's "Relativity" in Minecraft
Bergenco recreated MC Escher's 1951 House of Stairs Relativity using Minecraft, saying it took: "5 or 6 hours over 2 days. The sandstone room took the longest."
(Thanks, Fipi Lele!)
Bergenco recreated MC Escher's 1951 House of Stairs Relativity using Minecraft, saying it took: "5 or 6 hours over 2 days. The sandstone room took the longest."
(Thanks, Fipi Lele!)
The forthcoming 1.8 "Adventure Update" of Minecraft adds randomly-generated villages, a more refined control system and game mechanics, larger and more realistic ocean and mountain biomes, and the Endermen.
If you never look directly at Endermen, shadowy creatures with long and narrow limbs, they don't even notice you. — Read the rest
Ben Purdy made this "real life" Minecraft block. Very cool!
— Read the restNow that I'm working on projection mapping it was only a matter of time before this happened. Thanks to my brother for the inspiration, he mentioned that one of the other projection mapping examples looked a bit like a minecraft block.
Notch, the game developer who struck gold with his multimillion-dollar bestselling low-rez indiegame Minecraft, has a novel proposal for resolving the stupid trademark threats he's been receiving from Bethesda games, who are upset that he's working on a game called "Scrolls" (Bethesda makes a game called "Elder Scrolls"). — Read the rest
"Riccitiello soon 'picked up the vibe' that Mojang, the studio he created to grow Minecraft, is not for sale" — Michael French, Develop.
LaserUnicorn built a 3D printer in Minecraft, and produced this video documentary. The map files are also available. This is pretty clever!
12x12x11 15 color 3D printer I made (youtube.com)
(Thanks m4tth3w!) — Read the rest
Minecraft.Print() is a utility that sends Minecraft objects to 3D printers. [via Hack a day]
The Indie Games weblog offers first impressions of Mobile Minecraft: "Only a few concessions and changes have been made, all of which seem tied largely to the playing style of mobile users and processor limitations. Exclusive to the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play for the time being, Minecraft: Pocket Edition will apparently feature shorter day circles."
The world of Mojang is full of astonishing creations. I restore the balance.
Oz Workshop has created a giant fan-tribute to Japanese animation company Studio Ghibli, whom you'll likely know from films such as Kiki's Delivery Service and Howl's Moving Castle, using Minecraft. The blocky Minecraft world beautifully recreates some of the most striking scenes and characters from Ghibli classics. — Read the rest
Terraria Online, out today, is a side-scrolling action and exploration game where you can build, dig and fight: think Minecraft meets Metroid. The game-worlds are randomly generated, and you can play together with friends. Keep an eye out for it at Steam for ten bucks. — Read the rest
Our technobabbleist, Dean, was informed by Dannel Jurado about an interesting item on sale at Etsy. It is a 2.5" cube designed to resemble a cubic meter of earth from the computer game Minecraft. The seller, Laketide, will construct as many as you please, for $10 each.
An add-on called Finite Liquid replaces Minecraft's gamily-modeled water with fill-the-container realism; cut a channel from sea to cavern, and it will slowly fill to the brim. In this video, YouTuber MrLiquidmatter demonstrates the effect; then accidentally falls victim to a glitch that generates a massive, world-drowning tidal wave. — Read the rest
Minecraft fans, outraged by a proposed $5 nominal fee to join a certified developer program, demanded that the game's source code be released free of charge. Developer Notch gave in without much fuss; one commenter at Rock Paper Shotgun sums up the levels of entitlement and rage in the Minecraft community thusly: "bugfuck insane." — Read the rest
Here's a great profile of The Minecraft Teacher, AKA Joel Levin, who teaches a computer class at Columbia Grammar and Preparatory School in Manhattan where he makes extensive use of Minecraft. He assigns complex team-tasks in Minecraft that blend open-ended exploration with problem-solving and cooperation. — Read the rest
Minecraft, epic exploration game, now builds landscapes using seeds. This allows players to share their procedurally-generated worlds, and some of the best seeds are being collected. Two popular ones to get you started: "Glacier", shaded by massive overhanging cliffs, and "gargamel", a stunning canyon whose usual spawn point is in a pitch-black cave. — Read the rest
Pet wolves are coming to Minecraft. Extremely cute.
Ncorrigible sez, "My son was told to make a model of Saturn and its major moons for his 3rd grade science project. He and his geek dad built this model in Minecraft and make the video to showcase it. Video games in the classroom = living in an awesome future." — Read the rest
Character designer Tubbypaws has fallen down the Minecraft productivity singularity and has emerged bearing a downloadable, printable, buildable Minecraft papercraft design for your delectation.
I would of released this a while ago but i was busy playing the blocky block game and i got lost looking for diamonds then i heard a noise and got scared but it was just a cat outside so it was ok
(via Super Punch)
Minecraft: indie gaming phenomenon or existential daydream?