Loot Crate Magazine May 2014 | Page 6

EXCLUSIVE CONTENT EXCLUSIVE CONTENT MINE CRAFT BUILD YOUR OWN ADVENTURE BY CANDICE SHANE I t was around 2008 that people started hearing more and more about the project that Markus “Notch” Persson was creating. A creative building, resource-mining, exploratory, crafting and combat heavy game, that wouldn’t lean on complex graphics, but would instead empower the gamer to create whatever world they wanted. This is the world of Minecraft. While the sun shines, you’re given the abilities to craft anything you want from the resources you’ve dredged up from the ground. Quietly, mobs inch forward to find you building and when the darkness falls, you fight even more terrors in the form of Creepers. It might take you a little bit to get the rhythm of what your world will throw at you but from there on, truly, the sky is the limit. combines the fun of building combine the fun of building with LEGO’s with the LEGOs the creativity of starting from scratch and crafting a world around you based on what the good Terra firma left you. Fascinating concept, right? With a wide release in 2009, everyone clamored to get their hands on the game because of its limitless storylines and promise of adventure. And who doesn’t want that? A sa