[Linux Games: 3] Minecraft

Hello, today I bring you this Review about Mminecraft, a standalone Java and OpenGL construction video game of the "open world" or sandbox type originally created by Markus "Notch" Persson and later developed by his company, Mojang AB.

It was publicly released on May 17, 2009 in its alpha version, after various changes its full version was released on November 18, 2011.

A month before the release of its full version, on October 18, 2011, a version for Android was released, and on November 17 of the same year the version for iOS was released.

On May 9, 2012 the version of the game for Xbox 360 and Xbox Live Arcade was released. All versions of Minecraft receive constant updates since launch.

En Minecraft Players can make constructions using cubes with three-dimensional textures, they can also explore the environment, collect and create resources, as well as fight and other actions.

At its commercial launch, the game has two main modes: Survival, in which players must acquire resources to maintain their health and hunger; and creative, where players have unlimited access to the game's resources, the ability to fly and do not need to maintain their health and hunger.

Regardless of these game modes, the difficulty of the game can also be defined, the quietest mode being the peaceful one, which unlike the other difficulties, does not allow monsters to appear in the game that can interact with the player.

There is also a third game mode, called hardcore, which is similar to survival mode, with the difference that it can only be played on the highest difficulty and that the player has only one life, so when he dies the game ends. departure.

Minecraft It is an open world game, so it does not have a specific objective, allowing the player great freedom in choosing how to play, despite this the game has certain achievements that can be accomplished.

The default game mode is first person, although players have the ability to change it to third person.

The game focuses on the placement of blocks, being that this is made up of cubic three-dimensional objects, placed on a fixed grid pattern.

These cubes or blocks mainly represent different elements of nature, such as earth, stone, minerals, tree trunks, among others.

Players are free to move around their environment and modify it by creating, collecting and transporting the blocks that make up the game, which can only be placed respecting the fixed grid of the game.

At the beginning of the game, the player is in a world generated by an algorithm, which allows it to be practically infinite.

The player is free to move around the terrain, made up of different biomes, including deserts, jungles, oceans, plains and tundras.

The game has its own cycle of time of day and night, being that a day in the game is equivalent to 20 minutes in reality.

The game also includes non-playable creatures and characters, collectively referred to as mobs, these creatures can be peaceful, such as pigs, chickens and sheep, from which the player can easily obtain food and resources.

Creatures hostile to the players also appear in the game, such as zombies, giant spiders and skeletons, these creatures only appear at night or in dark areas, among these monsters are unique creatures of the game, such as creepers, which explode when close to the player, or the enderman, who can collect blocks and teleport.

The mapping is not generated entirely simultaneously, but is divided into chunks ("chunks", "chunks") of 16 × 16 blocks horizontally. Chunks close to the player are loaded into memory. As it moves, new chunks are generated and added to the map.

Survival mode ("survival") is the most original mode of the game and is set in real life while also contains a bit of fantasy, players have a life bar of 10 hearts.

You have to create a crafting table to build pickaxes, swords, hoes ... Hostile monsters attack them spontaneously (unless this game is in peaceful mode), and they can take damage (from these and in other ways, such as falls, lava, etc.) and die.

They also have a hunger bar, which they have to fill by obtaining and consuming food (from animals, zombies or plants), and an experience bar, obtained by defeating mobs (monsters), and by chopping mineral blocks (coal, lapis lazuli, redstone , emerald and diamond) or melt them (iron and gold)

The different blocks and objects are manufactured or collected and then stored in the players' inventory. The blocks require a few seconds to be extracted, in addition to certain tools depending on the case.

By acquiring better resources, you increase the quantity and quality of the tools (the better it is, the more things it breaks in the case of the pick or it does it faster in all cases, except the hoe, in addition to lasting longer) and objects that can be crafted .

There is also the peaceful mode (peaceful mode) is the same as survival but there are no monsters and you recover life when you lose it.

Bosses In Minecraft

There are 2 bosses:

Wither: It takes three heads of Whiter Skeleton which are obtained in the dimension «Nether» and four blocks of Soulsand, also obtained in the Nether to summon him.

The Soulsand blocks should be placed so that it is in the shape of a «T», and then put the heads on top of it, so that the Whiter comes out at the end.

Ender Dragon: Found in the "End" dimension. To enter you need 12 Portals at the end and 12 ender eyes, and they must be placed so that they make a square without corners, and then enter it.

It is a black dragon, and that by defeating it, under where it died a portal to the world will be created. If it is entered, the credits will appear (defeating the Ender Dragon is considered the end of the game).

My opinion:

Very good game, highly recommended, with infinite things to do 😀
[3 of 5] Graphics [/ 3 of 5] [5 of 5] Gameplay [/ 5 of 5] [5 of 5] Performance [/ 5 of 5] [2 of 5] Ease for beginners [/ 2 of 5] [3 of 5] Stability [/ 3 of 5] [5 of 5] Personal Appreciation [/ 5 of 5 ] [4points] [/ 4points]

Use Java and OpenGL
Wiki: http://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Minecraft_Wiki
Source: http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minecraft
Official Website: http://www.minecraft.net/