11/01/2019
Essay on Minecraft 


Create an essay discussing the evolution of Minecraft as part of the essay you will discuss.

- how ownership of Minecraft has affected the games evolution
- how Minecraft is marked to a variety of audience
- the development of the game through technological change

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he goal you’d originally have when launching Minecraft was to spawn in, survive, and maybe build a few structures. 

To begin with, Minecraft is a sandbox type of game which is a style of a game in which there is minimal character limitations placed on the gamer, allowing the gamer to roam freely. There are no fixed rules or a set objective that the gamer has to achieve neither are there numbered levels. A sandbox game is also reffered to as an ''open world'' or ''free-roaming game'' where the gamer is given complete freedom in choosing how to play the game using their own imagination and by not hving any specific goals to accomplish.
The sandbox video game was created by the Swedish developer- Markus Persson, and later developed by Mojang. The full version of the game was released in November 2011. After its release, in 2014 the game Minecraft was bought by Microsoft for 1.5billion from its original creators and as of 2014 it sold 54 million copies for computers, consoles and mobile devices. By late 2018, there was a total of 154 million copies of the game being sold.

The game allows its players to build a variety of different blocks in a 3D generated world, requiring creativity and imagination from the players. Other main activities in the game include exploration, resource gathering, crafting and combat.

After its releas, the game was in fact very simple. The goal gamers were setting themslves was to spawn in, survive in general and maybe build a few structures.
As players felt the game was too slow without being able to run, additions like running and Redstone wer added at the perfect time. After everybody seemed like they understood Redstone fully and mostly got used to the updates and new additions, Command Blocks were added to further complicate the process. So, these were the first additions and technological dvelopments of the game.
As time past, ther were and more and more updates added to the game. At the beginning, in August 2011 minecraft pocket edition was released for the Xperia Play, available on Sony Xperia smartphones. Later in November 2011, there was an IOS version released for iphones and apple devices. So, by 2012, Minecraft was available for Xbox 360 and Xbox Live. Making the game available on much more advices increased its popularity and its users as everyone has different devices therefore it became available for more users.