{"id":30620,"date":"2011-12-07T14:55:03","date_gmt":"2011-12-07T14:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/minecraft-creator-lego-inspired-me-by-lewis\/"},"modified":"2018-12-06T10:14:26","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T17:14:26","slug":"minecraft-creator-lego-inspired-me-by-lewis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/minecraft-creator-lego-inspired-me-by-lewis\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-30620 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/minecraft-creator-lego-inspired-me-by-lewis\/attachment\/30621\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_lvu9frBzVd1qescwho1_250-100x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_lvu9frBzVd1qescwho1_250-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_lvu9frBzVd1qescwho1_250.jpg 184w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 100px) 100vw, 100px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><b>Minecraft creator: &lsquo;Lego inspired me&rsquo;<\/b><br \/>\nby Lewis Tyler<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Markus Persson says Lego may have subconsciously inspired the video game.<\/p>\n<p>The man behind Minecraft believes a partnership between his game and Lego would be a &ldquo;perfect match&rdquo; for a range of toys.<br \/>\nSpeaking to ToyNews, Minecraft creator Markus Persson, aka &#8216;Notch&rsquo;, said: &ldquo;Having grown up with Lego and it probably having subconsciously affected the design of Minecraft &#8211; I&rsquo;d say it&rsquo;s a perfect match.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Both fans of toys and video games have been gripped by the prospect of a Lego set based on the increasingly valuable Minecraft brand.<\/p>\n<p>Although Persson is &ldquo;not involved in the discussions&rdquo; himself, he remains hopeful.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne thing I personally think would be ridiculously awesome in the long-term would be to get Minecraft character shaped Minifigures,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The idea for the Lego Minecraft line originated on Cuusoo \u2013 a community initiative which gives Lego fans the opportunity to see their ideas become real products.<\/p>\n<p>If a submission gets 10,000 votes of support then Lego will consider making the product.<\/p>\n<p>In just one day, Lego Minecraft has amassed over 8,000 votes of support. Minecraft&rsquo;s iconic dirt block, in Lego form.<br \/>\nYesterday, Paal Smith-Meyer, head of the Lego new business group said he was &ldquo;really excited to see the fantastic enthusiasm of the Minecraft community.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Although Minecraft hasn\u2019t been released at retail, the independently developed game has sold millions of copies digitally and has a fanatical community, with over 16 million users registered on its website.<\/p>\n<p>With the project looking certain to hit the magic number, an official Lego Minecraft set could indeed become a reality.<br \/>\nSmith-Meyer said: &ldquo;This is what Lego Cuusoo is all about, connecting people\u2019s passion to the Lego brick.&rdquo; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.toynews-online.biz\/news\/35024\/Notch-Lego-collaboration-a-perfect-match\">Minecraft creator: &#8216;Lego inspired me&rsquo; | Toy Industry | News by ToyNews<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minecraft creator: &lsquo;Lego inspired me&rsquo; by Lewis Tyler Markus Persson says Lego may have subconsciously inspired the video game. The man behind Minecraft believes a partnership between his game and Lego would be a &ldquo;perfect match&rdquo; for a range of toys. Speaking to ToyNews, Minecraft creator Markus Persson, aka &#8216;Notch&rsquo;, said: &ldquo;Having grown up with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[1538],"class_list":["post-30620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","tag-humane-games","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-7XS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30620"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30622,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30620\/revisions\/30622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}