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Where do I start?<\/p>\n

At the beginning, I suppose. So, I had heard about this game from a couple of co-workers, one of which has a foot in the gaming industry (Computer games, that is). Also, curiously, from a friend of mine\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s thirteen-year old son. Minecraft. Apparently, it was so enthralling that I was recommended to check it out immediately. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Like legos\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, I was told. Well, as a kid, I LOVED Legos, and I still have my lego collection, modest as it is\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 but, upon seeing the game for the first time, I was rather put off. At first glance, it looks cheesy. All of the graphics are intentionally made to resemble old original Nintendo graphics. Still, I was intrigued enough to try it out. <\/p>\n

I think it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s safe to refer to my significant other as a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Minecraft Widow\u00e2\u20ac\u009d at this point.<\/p>\n

I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not going to waste my breath describing the details of the game to you, but I will say that it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s so ground-breaking, so different from any other game previously, that it has indeed created an new *Genre* of games. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153World-building\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, perhaps?<\/p>\n

Since I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve heard about it, I’ve purchased it for three people as gifts, and I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d say a good ten people at work actively play it. I know of one other guy who runs a server, and I also run a server. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s in Alpha production, (Goes Beta on Dec. 20), and already has over 3 million registered users.<\/p>\n

Here is the google maps of our world.<\/a><\/p>\n

Here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a couple shots of my skyscraper being built:<\/p>\n

\"2010-12-17_00.26.20\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"2010-12-17_13.06.26\"<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Where do I start? At the beginning, I suppose. So, I had heard about this game from a couple of co-workers, one of which has a foot in the gaming industry (Computer games, that is). Also, curiously, from a friend of mine\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s thirteen-year old son. Minecraft. Apparently, it was so enthralling that I was recommended… Continue reading Minecraft<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tungsai.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tungsai.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tungsai.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tungsai.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tungsai.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tungsai.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tungsai.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tungsai.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tungsai.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}