Minecraft Essay

The idea of a video game that boasts the immense capability to improve its players in many areas of practical capability appeared inconceivable before the powerful release of Minecraft. With most video games possessing the restrictive boundaries wrought by an established story-line, it was no wonder that the advent of a video game whose merit is that it boasts no plot at all appeared unfamiliar to many. Indeed, most video games could only afford to its players such classic abstract benefits as exercising “teamwork” or occupation against boredom. But the beauty of the Minecraft installment is its traveling beyond being “just-another-game”. Its genuine simplicity in its directionless nature synergistically blends with a sense of realistic complexity, …show more content…
Obviously, Minecraft proves to be a program that leaps beyond the boundaries of entertaining video-gaming and coded processing, and its extensiveness reaches far beyond its conspicuous merits in architecture and logistics whether it be redstone’s connection with electrical physics, or even the trapdoor-lever’s connection to mechanics. Personally, I have experienced Minecraft for over 4 years. In this virtual world, I knew I could become a master of alchemy, a renowned redstone engineer, or even a superb general of a small army of players in a Minecraft server. Besides allowing me to appreciate practical architecture on a realistic level, the exercising of the imagination I never knew I possessed provided me with an opportunity I will never forget, one that granted me immense confidence to pursue the hidden imaginative potential of my mind. This opportunity was something far different from that which one receives from reading fictitious books and viewing long films of