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-114300-228600This is a research document on Minecraft following up its history and fan base along with popular websites associated with Mojang. We will be going into depth about all the pros and con’s, then summing up an outcome after reviewing such information. I chose to review this because of the mainstream popularity and the amount of history included on this particular creation.3657600142240The subject at hand is a free roaming building game where you are chucked into a world without limitations and with vast possibilities. Everything in the game is supported by a brick layout and really helps to ease up the game as you can collect these blocks by extracting them and placing into your inventory. There are also enemy creatures you can battle that come out at night so you should use these blocks to create shelters against them. There are also friendly creatures like pigs and cows, which can be used for milk and meat. Along with the food creation topic you can also create farms full of wheat for making bread as well as other crops. You can combine multiple blocks to create objects such as swords, torches and doors. 0405130Markus Persson otherwise known as ‘Notch’ was the founder of Minecraft and started his career making computer games on his fathers Commocodore 2600 at the age 7. After creating Minecraft, giving him a ?40 million net worth and having the biggest breakthrough in his life he promoted Mojang and employed friends who decided to join him in helping to innovate a fantastic idea that would change the life of many people giving the young opportunity and aspiration through Youtube partnerships as well as art funds from specific websites (eg. AXA). Kristoffer Zetterstrand was the artist behind Minecraft and just came out of College when Notch gave him the job. He is in fact brother in law to Notch, which gave a boost to being chosen for the job. All paintings he has done can be found in minecraft and as you can tell he is mostly a retro/open world artist and designer. Jens “jeb” Bergensten helped notch in his creation and took over when notch stepped down as lead designer and lead developer. Following up to the creation of Minecraft many ‘you tubers’ decided to test out the game and show off what they have done. Yogscast is the most popular of choices and this group has many people alongside like Hannah and Sjin. Lewis and Simon are the lead ones with Hannah as the substitute leader of this group. They have reviewed many maps and games created by people as well as got into an argument with notch over twitter once or twice. Tobuscus and Pewdiepie are the secondary options as it is a one-man operation but are equally watched nonetheless. They go on the idea of sticking to one map with the viewer following they’re Minecraft journey all the way until they get bored. Finally after all those there are the leftovers. People who simply want to make a little cash with the ‘you tube’ partner programme or do it for fun.4343400528320Minecraft first started out as a simple brick creation game but got developed after mass popularity and is currently hitting 7 million players ongoing. On average 9,000 people buy Minecraft daily making way above ?1,000. After the creation of survival and food ECT. Notch decided to play a prank on his players by inserting a horror styled character called Herobrine, which would stalk and then kill you in game. After a second update release he decided to take it out because of the enhanced rumours of the character being his dead brother. The game was promoted originally via an Impromotu free-to-play weekend convention where after playing the game sales hit a record of 1 million sold in 24 hours. After hitting this notch decided to go onto other platforms and created the game to work with the Xbox 360 and android phones. This also proved to be a big hit and the Xbox 360 version opened up to more ‘you tubers’ in the Xbox live community.The songs in Minecraft were created for C418 who released a Minecraft album with a total of 24 obscure techno tracks and sold them whilst giving part profit to Mojang. As well as the album Mojang hand many promotional items including Lego, clothing and accessories. Including merchandise reviewers helped in promoting his game as most gave Minecraft positive feedback and was listed the 4th best game in the world on PC gamer and many other magazines. In fact after that notch got so proud of his indie achievement that he started bad mouthing mainstream companies like EA saying that they were ruining the industry.0226695Because of him standing up to EA Notch decided to work on other projects. At first he started Minecon, a Minecraft convention that first held in New Vegas last year and because of the popularity has decided to become a yearly event. Not known but very brave of them Mojang offered to help the UN with creating real world environments for training and renovation purposes which didn’t get any recognition but helped in giving notch that helpful feeling.A total of 5 games have been made by Mojang. Called Minecraft, Catacomb Snatch, Cobalt, Scrolls and 0x10c. Following up the lawsuit, It started on september 2011 and went all the way to march 2012 when the final conclusion was that Notch got permission for an interim injunction which is something that ends copyright disputes on the basis that a fee has been paid for copyright issues. Bethesda has the option to still appeal but have agreed not to as long as the product does not come in competition with the elder scrolls.To sum up i think that Minecraft has come a long way and gave Mojang that needed career boost. It is a family friendly game for both male and female gender with many moneymaking aspects as well as a new community to add to the gaming communities out there. It gives people who before had no creation sense or anything to do a chance to design art at it’s finest. For that reason i personally see Minecraft as the world’s best game. Not because i like it but because the idea was pure artistic genius. In fact Minecraft was not the only outstanding achievement Mojang has gotten. Going through 2 lawsuits, major twitter disputes and a massive fanbase has made Mojang one of the most respectable indie game design company’s to date. ................
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