Minecraft Fact Sheet

Video game: A game played by electronically manipulating images produced by a computer program on a monitor or other display.

Types of Video games:

- RPG

-Sports

-Strategy

-Action/adventure

-Puzzle solving

-Construction

-FPS

-Simulation

-Horror

-Children's

Examples:

- Fortnite                                        -Cooking Mama                      -Sims

-Nintendogs                                   -Dinner Dash                           -Far Cry

-Fifa                                               -Big Brain academy                 -Rainbow 6 Siege

-GTA                                             -Sky Rim                                  -Fable

-NBA                                             -Mario Sonic                            -WWE

-UFC                                              -F1                                           -Assassin's Creed

-Wii Fit                                          -Just Dance                              -Wii Sports resort

-Crash Bandicoot                           -Rachet and Clank                   -We Sing

-Moshi Monsters                            -Guitar Hero                            -Monkey Ball

-Call of Duty                                  -Watch Dogs                            -Battlefield

Terminology:

-Games Consoles - A unit accommodating a set of controls for electronic or mechanical equipment.

-Sandbox Game - Construction; building from scratch. Changing roles of the 'look down generation.' Collaboration through gaming; multi-player

-Microsoft - Institution which owns videogames; Xbox and Minecraft

-Platforms - Different levels of gaming. Online Vs Moving images Vs Audio. Ways you can play (App, physically etc.). Multi-Platform - More than one way of playing; more platforms = wider variety.

-Servers - How the games run, where info is kept, enables games to be played.

Intro to Minecraft...

- Minecraft development - from 'online Lego'

- Multi - platform =  more available

- Open Sandbox - no limit

- Started as an 'indie'

- Critically and commercially successful

- From independent to mainstream - 125 million copies sold.

-Minecraft was created by Marcus 'Notch' Persson and developed by Mojang.

-These were independent, separate to and not financed by a big commercial company.

-But, as small independent products become successful, it is usual for larger organisations/owners to want to buy them.

6 reasons why Minecraft is successful...

- Infinite replayability - Sandbox (No limits)

-Strong community - creations are the marketing campaign

-Platform agnostic - Released on everything

-Co-opted by children - Household name

-Not limited by genre

-Fulfils human instinct to bring order to chaotic wilderness