{"id":30774,"date":"2011-09-21T17:13:54","date_gmt":"2011-09-21T17:13:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/the-magic-of-minecraft-disruption-david\/"},"modified":"2011-09-21T17:13:54","modified_gmt":"2011-09-21T17:13:54","slug":"the-magic-of-minecraft-disruption-david","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/the-magic-of-minecraft-disruption-david\/","title":{"rendered":"The Magic of Minecraft | Disruption: David Pakman&#8217;s Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/www.pakman.com\/2011\/09\/01\/the-magic-of-minecraft\/'>The Magic of Minecraft | Disruption: David Pakman&#8217;s Blog<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"link_description\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/room3d.org\/post\/10482410051\">room3d<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Another article about Minecraft, from a parent\u2019s perspective. \u00a0 Last week my 13 year old had 6 friends over for a birthday sleepover. \u00a0They all brought laptops and ignored the XBox and the WII as they spent half the night playing Minecraft .<\/p>\n<p>Minecraft is described as a \u201cDigital Sandbox\u201d and seems to straddle the line between game and virtual world. \u00a0 \u00a0Like a game, \u00a0monsters attack you and you have to fight them off and build defenses to survive. \u00a0 In order to build things, you first have to gather resources. \u00a0 Like \u201cRoblox\u201d \u00a0there are few curves to be seen &#8211; the world is made of cubes skinned with various textures. \u00a0 \u00a0The initial landscapes are generated pseudorandomly, which gives this world a peculiar beauty.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to creating buildings and landscapes by stacking blocks, players can develop a hundred or so different tools and objects. \u00a0 \u00a0To do this, you first have to gather the specific resources, then assemble them following a specific \u201crecipe\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>This approach limits what you can make, but results in a learning curve that gets players building immediately and flattens the learning curve. \u00a0 \u00a0The search for resources is a pleasant challenge and makes the experience more rewarding.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone coming from a real virtual world like Roblox or Second Life will find the building options limiting, but for gamers making the transition to virtual worlds or young kids building for the first time, Minecraft could be a great choice.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Magic of Minecraft | Disruption: David Pakman&#8217;s Blog room3d: Another article about Minecraft, from a parent\u2019s perspective. \u00a0 Last week my 13 year old had 6 friends over for a birthday sleepover. \u00a0They all brought laptops and ignored the XBox and the WII as they spent half the night playing Minecraft . Minecraft is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[1538],"class_list":["post-30774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","tag-humane-games","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-80m","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30774","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=30774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30774\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}