Beauty in simplicity

A lot of you might already know this game, but I was recently introduced to it by my friend and has been enjoying playing this game so much that I wanted to share it with you.
Minecraft


This game is a survival & creative game where you dig and build whatever you want. There are some creatures that come at you at night like zombies, skeltons and self-exploding creature called "creepers".

As you can see, the world is made up with 8bit blocks so the visual is very simple. The great thing is every time you start a journey, the game will generate a new world that is completely original, so no two players have a same world. The world can be as big as eight times the size of the earth. Eight times!!
The game play is very intuitive once you get into it, but it is hard until you get used to recipes of creating tools you need for different purposes. So if you are interested in playing, I highly recommended watching some of you-tube videos that teach some methods. Also here is a wiki page that has all the info about the game. Wiki

There are many things we can learn from a success of this game. For example, customizability(is there a word?) of this game is beyond imagination. People create not only their own castles but models from different films and games from scratch. There are even some people that created some simple forms of computers inside the game. Also, you can make your own textures for each materials so the look of the world could be different. There are no limitation to speak of.
While most games nowadays strive for hi-res images and pretty effects, this game has pretty much went back time. There is something calming about seeing 8-bit images. Even with this primitive graphics, I often find myself scared to death or amazed with the beauty.
You can play on servers with people or play offline and dive into your own world.

As we go into the final polish for our projects, this game might be a nice refresh and pure fun to take your mind off from the work.