Minecraft is an island unto itself, built entirely of square, earth-toned blocks. Though it’s one of the most successful games in history, you don’t see any other game quite like it. This is rare in an industry where borrowing ideas from others is the standard. Sure, there are legions of lesser copy
At this point pretty much every square inch of Earth has been recreated in Minecraft, so the web developer Rachel Carvalho has turned to modelling alien planets in the popular game about blocky construction blocks. Her project Voxel Mars is a Minecraft mod that lets you trudge across the vacant cavi
Simplifying the vastness of the Minecraft universe to 252 bytes seems impossible, but French developer and designer p01 did just that with “Minicraft.” p01 has officially beaten Minecraft creator Notch at shrinking his own game. (Notch’s own version of minicraft was 4gb.) Minecraft isn’t the only ga
Markus Persson, or Notch, is known across the Internet for throwing lavish parties and wearing a trilby. Oh yeah, you might’ve also heard of a little indie game he made. It’s called Minecraft. It’s only sold something like 30 million copies, which raises the question of why doesn’t Notch own a more
