MineCraft - Strike the Earth, Punch a Tree, Die Horribly!
Edit: Free time is over, time to pay again... Creative is still available though!
Do you like Legos? Construction? Heart Container health bars? SPELUNKING!?
If so, do I have a game for you. Minecraft is a sandbox game where, you, the ever humbled lone miner in a strange new world, dig, chop, and build your own safe-haven from the dark denizens of the night!
You've peaked my interest, go on...?
In Minecraft, you start by punching trees to gather logs. Turn this log into lumber. And then, turn that lumber into sticks and craft yourself a mighty wooden axe to chop down... well... more logs! From there, craft yourself a flimsy wooden pick axe and strike the Earth on your quest for stone, caves, gold, and DIAMONDS! Upgrade from your old wooden tools to stone, then steel, then gold, and finally diamond tools.
Wait, wait wait... Crafting!?
Oh yes. You see, all the materials you find are useful. Firstly, they become blocks, like legos, and you can use them for various purposes from crafting, to smelting glass from sand, to building yourself a monument of greatness. The sheer scope is only limited by your imagination and how big you can dream in pixels.
Craft shovels, torches, hoes, picks, ladders, columns, swords, and more!
Swords? Why would I need a sword!?
Why, to defend yourself from the monstrous denizens of the night. You see, during the day, the most harm you might come across are harmless sheep, from which you can get cloth. Maybe a cow, or a pig. Nothing too dangerous. Every now and then, you might find a creeper (who drops gunpowder... and pack another surprise) and spiders. However, if you're the adventurous type who doesn't hide in their small, meager home they've built for themselves, you might want to venture out at night and battle zombies and skeletons! They die in the sunlight, so you're safe at day though, if you're a pansy. Oh... there are also dungeons deep underground with spawners. And lava... and underground rivers.
How big are the worlds?
Vertically? You can only go up so far into the sky, and only so far down before you hit bedrock. Bedrock is unbreakable, unless you have lots of TNT. If you do get through it, you open up a hole to the endless void. But you can go very far down, and very far up.
Horizontally? Limitless. The game uses procedural generation to develop further horizontally as you explore. You can just keep going, and going and going and going and going. Seriously, it's infinite..
What sort of things can I construct?
Anything and everything. Gravity is kind of funny, and you can make floating blocks. Want some examples? HERE!
(SPOILER)
http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j2...alcomplete.png
My own hidden cathedral
and some other masterpieces include:
Someone has built a city called RAPTURE underwater! Some of you might know of it!
http://www.fusedcreations.com/adam/mc_rap001.jpg
http://www.fusedcreations.com/adam/mc_rap002.jpg
and from inside
http://www.fusedcreations.com/adam/mc_rap003.jpg
And, one of my personal favorites that I helped out with: Goonie Bay!
YouTube - GoonieBay
Helped out with? You mean this is collaborative?
Well, there are three modes.
Creative/Classic, which is free, and no monsters. You can just build build build to your hearts desire with no fear.
The other two modes require purchasing Alpha, which is totally worth it. You can play the game in your browser, or by downloading the client, which is simple, because it's an .exe and java file. since it is in Alpha, the game is 9.99 EU or 13.something USD.
Survival is the single player mode that I detailed earlier.
Multiplayer, which is what I've been playing a lot on right now, is survival, but broken. Unlimited health, and some of the mechanics of survival don't work, but it's a minor detail. Servers are all hosted by private players, so if we wanted to coordinate anything, one of us would need to host a server, but totally worth it. Updates come out on Friday/Saturday to enhance and add stuff as well as fix things. The creator has made this his sole job, and has made over a million so far in just Alpha. Seriously, the game is the :bou::bou::bou::bou:.
I hate paying for stuff.
I hate you and your disgust for capitalism. When it finally gets out of Alpha, the price will double. Seriously, you're an idiot if you don't at least try out creative.
Well, let me try creative and see what I think.
CERTAINLY!! You can either click the minecraft logo or just click here: Minecraft.
you also might want to browse through the Minepedia.
GO MY BROTHERS! STRIKE THE EARTH AND BUILD THE WORLD! Investigate more info and, seriously, please play the creative web browser one and post your constructions.
The game is sort of as though you are playing the part of the Dwarf from Dwarf Fortress. It's that good. However, it does not yet have all the stuff Dwarf Fortress has, but it's very early stages yet.
edit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uv-FORwG2oo just watch and enjoy.
