Microsoft brings Minecraft to Windows 10.
As you can see from the trailer below Minecraft: Story Mode looks extremely extremely authentic, although it doesn’t seem to star mascot Steve or his female equivalent Alex.Block By Block seems an inspiring project: Eugenio Gastelum Pons from Mexico is talking about getting children involved in creating the designs for new parks, figuring out what they want from basketball courts to lighting, with Minecraft the conduit for their ideas to reach city planners. “It’s quite a fun challenge, because if you’ve seen our videos, you’ll know we aren’t usually building real structures,” says Needler. “It’s been really interesting trying to find things in Minecraft that can represent things in real life,” adds Southam.We know all about Minecraft’s past and present: 70m sales across computers, consoles and mobile devices, and a burgeoning community of players, YouTubers, educators and independent developers doing interesting things with developer Mojang’s game.
New Delhi: When Windows 10 goes live on July 29, Minecraft lovers will have another reason to feel joyous about as the software giant has added the iconic game to its upcoming Windows version.LONDON: For hours, the dedicated queued on Saturday to carry off a prized autograph or to pose for a selfie with some of the biggest celebrities of a new generation. Instead there’s a new cast of characters, with Ratatouille lead Patton Oswalt voicing ‘Jesse’ in a new five episode season of downloadable games. They show their biggest model, built for a space in Haiti, which is massive. “We want to make it as detailed and accurate as possible,” says Needler. “We want to make it somewhere you can visit in Minecraft.” Meanwhile Southam talks about the experience of visiting the real cities after creating the builds: “I’m always worried I’m going to have missed a corner or something!” “The fact that we can produce something using a game that helps people in the real world is really special,” says Southam, before handing over to Mojang’s Vu Bui, who explains that the original idea came from an outside organisation in Sweden, using Minecraft in an urban regeneration project. “To be able to use what is designed and created purely as a game in things that are not directly gaming-related… and to use that to help people’s lives, is really special for us.
On July 4, MineCon conference, a worldwide gathering for Minecraft players was held where Microsoft announced that the Minecraft Windows 10 Edition Beta will be arriving on the platform when it goes live. Other voice actors in the game include Brian Posehn, Ashley Johnson (Ellie from The Last Of Us), Scott Porter, Martha Plimpton, Dave Fennoy, Corey Feldman, Billy West, and Paul ‘ Pee-wee Herman’ Reubens. This is not ‘the architect version’, this is just the pure game, but it can be used for uses outside what it was originally intended for, which is really exciting for us,” says Bui.
Although there is some mythology behind the game already Minecraft has never had a proper plot to explain what’s going on, but in Story Mode Jesse is searching for some legendary adventurers called the Order of the Stone. Currently, UN-Habitat is running between 30 and 35 projects, with 12 of those using Minecraft, with one having been completed. “By the end of this year we should be at about five, and with more finishing in 2016,” says Westerberg.
Mojang provided fans with some details during its Minecon 2015 conference in London this morning, in an hour-long session focusing on Minecraft for computers and consoles, and its Pocket Edition for smartphones and tablets. The game was unveiled at Minecon 2015 and the first episode is due out later this year, on Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, PC, iOS, and Android. ‘We’ve worked closely with the amazing team at Mojang to ensure this story is a natural fit for the Minecraft world fans already know and love,’ said Telltale’s Kevin Bruner. ‘As Jesse, players will steer their own path through a tale of adventure and survival; all brought to life by an all-star cast.
A panel session saw Mojang’s Owen Hill, Daniel Wustenhoff, Tommaso Checchi, Jens Bergensten and Nathan Adams talk about upcoming features, and take questions from an audience that was around two thirds adults and a third children – a reflection of Minecraft’s player community. “The Ender Dragon right now in the PC edition is not right. The game, whose developer Mojang was bought by Microsoft last year for US$2.5 billion, has done more than any other to influence the way the youngest computer users play and communicate online. “It seems to be going from strength to strength,” said Daniel Middleton, also known as DanTDM, who at 23 has over 6.8 million followers for Minecraft videos on Google’s YouTube. Through Telltale’s choice-based gameplay and a story spanning from the Nether to the Farlands, the End, and beyond, we can’t wait for fans to experience this new take on the beloved world of Minecraft.’
You go to the end, you break a few blocks, then you hit him over the head a couple of times,” admitted Adams, promising a tougher challenge for players, and also the ability to respawn the dragon at will if they craft the necessary item. A bit like a virtual Lego set, Minecraft is set in a limitless world in which some choose simply to build and others to fight monsters – and each other. Mojang also showed off a new area of the game for players to visit with a doomy yellow, purple and black colour scheme, and new trees that can be mined for “chorus fruit”, which in turn can create more new blocks.
Released to the public in 2011 with its block-based, somewhat retro graphics, Minecraft has over 100 million registered users across all computers, gaming systems and mobile apps. “I just love that you can hang out with your friends and just build stuff and just meet new people,” said Cody Vansickle, 18, from Ohio in the United States. The company is introducing a new mob called the Shulker, which sits inside a block that opens up, and shoots shuriken-styke projectiles at players that bounce off walls and travel round corners. In an exhibition centre away from the blue summer sky, the most devoted followers carried foam swords and pickaxes, replicas of those in Minecraft, as they played games and sought to at least glimpse their heroes. Wustenhoff and Checchi also confirmed that Mojang is working on bringing its Realms service – where players pay a monthly subscription to manage their own private Minecraft servers to play on with friends – to the Pocket Edition. “It was meant to be in the next update, but we didn’t get around to it,” said Checchi.