Minecraft

Wow. What an interesting idea. This is probably the first reaction of anyone who is still playing Minecraft. Minecraft is one of those games that really lets you do anything as long as you have enough ingenuity.

So, Minecraft is an indie game. I just love it. Then again, what am I, if not indie? I've been described by some of my closest friends as "too indie." I find this a silly idea. Finding great things is not something to bemoan, but rather, something to celebrate.

I think in part it was the way I was raised. My dad said that Linux is great, so I tried it. I didn't get it working right away. No. I didn't really even get it working for a couple years. Now, I can't imagine not having Linux. It works much more smoothly than Windows. I don't know how to explain it to people who don't want to use Linux, but it just works really well. And for something that's free, that's amazing. Open source projects are amazing. In fact, most unpublished projects are amazing. I think it's great that they can work when they have no financial backing.

Minecraft is one of those unpublished greats. It's such a strong contender for the most simple game ever, but it has so much depth that some people would attack you for calling it simple. At it's heart though, that's what it is. It is a system that works on a very small scale, and yet, can create very big things. Without simple interactions between objects, there is no way that the system would be able to manage everything that is going on at any one time.

One of the things that annoys me, is the group of people that follow Minecraft. This doesn't mean all of them, but the loudest ones. It's the same for the Call of Duty crowd, and the Whedonites. I love most of what Joss Whedon creates. I just don't like accepting his work unconditionally. This goes the same for Minecraft. Minecraft is a clone of Infiniminer. I didn't know this until I looked up Minecraft on the Wikipedia. It was inspired by an earlier game that had similar things set up. However, Infiniminer had the advantage of being a team based game. I truthfully want to see Minecraft have a team based mode. The game would become a lot more interesting if there was a multiplayer challenge aspect. This is what draws me in League of Legends and Team Fortress 2. Both of these amazing games truly deserve to be looked at and given a chance, because they are amazing games.

Anyways, play minecraft. There's a free version, which is fun, and a version that cost only ~18$ which is even more fun. Yes, it's not the most original, but that doesn't make it less fun. Play it. You'll thank yourself for doing so. And even if you don't like it, then you won't have wasted anything other than 5 minutes, and you can always go right to LoL or TF2 afterward.