MINECRAFT!!!

When someone imagines a virtual world, many different preconceptions may appear in a persons mind. They may think of a social situation, like Second Life, where the purpose of the world is to interact with others, and the world itself is merely a tool of the communication. Someone else may think of games like EVE online where the playing with others is secondary to your own personal enjoyment and success in a large scale game. However there is a brand new virtual world that is changing many people's thoughts about what a virtual world really is, and its a game all about mining. Minecraft is low tech online game that can be played for free or bought for $10 dollars. their is no objective and there is no goal, there is only you and nearly infinite world(6 times the size of the surface of the earth) and what you want to do with it. The game is set in two time-frames day and night. during the day you are free to explore the land and mine for resources, once you have resources you can then construct buildings. the limit to what you can build is endless. Flying cities have built, as well as castle under the ocean and fully fuctional space ships. At night various monsters will try and attack you, however depending on how well you buildings are made you will be safe.

Minecrafts popularity extends from the retro appearance of the game the seemingly endless variety of buildings and objects that can be constructed using the game. Some players have recreated entire game worlds from other popular game series within Minecraft, gaining praise from traditional game developers.
An online version of Minecraft has recently released by the game makers to let players collaborate on even larger projects.

Minecraft city

Minecraft spaceship

Minecraft Earth