OT-Minecraft

[sdrealtor]

Am I alone in this world of textured cubes or do any other Piggs live in this world?

[outtamojo]

For about 4 months, my now 10 year old son spent every free moment on that game…

[sdrealtor]

My 12 yr old was an early adopter and has been at it over a year. He asked me for my paypal account so he could register and put something up on a public server yesterday. It cost me $20 to do it but its his passion so I support it. Apparently he’s a bit of a savant at it. He got over $100 in donations today. I asked him if we could put up 10 more servers tomorrow.

[5yes]

Our boys aged 7 and 4 both love minecraft. I have a strict no killing villagers rule though 🙂 I have to admit, I enjoy survival mode and have a couple of my own worlds!

[The-Shoveler]

Really you can make money playing games ?

I got to start doing more of that instead of working.
Just kidding..

[CDMA ENG]

You know sdr I looked into this game when you asked me about a laptop. I must say that this is quite a nice little game. I consider it along the line of legos. It teachs basic problem solving, logistic, and time scheduling schemes.

Better that a kid play this than killing monsters on playstation.

Anyone wondering what this is you can view it on youtube.

CE

[sdrealtor]

Agree CDMA. The graphics are very rudimentary but it really teaches alot of things including collaboration and project managment in addition the things you mentioned.

BTW, there are monsters they kill/ward off but they are more of a zombie like nuisance than the focus of the game. They are called Creepers.

[outtamojo]

[quote=sdrealtor]My 12 yr old was an early adopter and has been at it over a year. He asked me for my paypal account so he could register and put something up on a public server yesterday. It cost me $20 to do it but its his passion so I support it. Apparently he’s a bit of a savant at it. He got over $100 in donations today. I asked him if we could put up 10 more servers tomorrow.[/quote]

And you didn’t ask him to slip your business info in there somehow : )

[sdrealtor]

LOL. I told him to keep it up and instead of building houses out of blocks online he could buy his own soon.

[Coronita]

Hmmm. I need to checkout MineCraft. Never heard… But…

I just thought about a cool game video to create….

FoxconnCraft.

The theme behind the game will be…

1. You own an elaborate manufacturing company.

2. You’re mission is to satisfy your one and only critical customer, “Lemon” and Lemon’s boss, Stan NoJobs

3. You need to make products iLemonPad iLemonPhone iLemonnade by the unreasonable deadlines.

4. At your disposal are initially 10,000 slave laborors, 1000 security guards and managers with pit bulls, 100 high security dorms, food, water, a stack full of local currency, gorrilla glass, pcb boards, circuit boards, etc.

5. You need to assemble your security guards and managers to organize your 10000 workforce, and get them to start producing, testing, shipping the iLemon products as fast as you can.

6. If you fall behind in production, you can add more pitbulls and cut off optional things like food/water/bathroom breaks to keep the production goals.

7. Be careful you don’t run your workers down too much, otherwise they might start jumping out the window or collapsing from malnutrition… Then you would have to spend more money finding more workers to replace then, and more importantly, if you do enough times, the production line will stop.

8. Watch out for surprise inspections from Lemon Inc. Because when they come, you need to replace your existing working conditions with slower, more presentable working environment, albeit less efficient.

9. Make sure you figure out how to balance giving enough wage adjustments. You don’t want to raise production costs by more than 0.001 cents per unit, but you want to make sure you give your workers something that they don’t start rioting and going on strike…

[SDEngineer]

If you get into it, it teaches quite a bit more than just basic problem solving and logistics.

Start building things with redstone and you can get quite deep into electronic circuits – building neat things that require you to learn about electronic logic gates, clocks, and timing (I have a working airlock & lava purge room that simultaneously opens a large lava moat around my base for killing creepers etc that congregate overnight, a working automatic harvesting room for mushrooms, and some other nifty things all running off redstone circuits)

Saw a video today of some 16 year old kid that built a working graphical calculator in the game – yes, with an actual pixel array for graphing functions – I had seen a number of binary calculators before, but this was the first time I had seen someone actually put one together with a real display.

It’s insane – see here:

[CDMA ENG]

[quote=sdrealtor]Agree CDMA. The graphics are very rudimentary but it really teaches alot of things including collaboration and project managment in addition the things you mentioned.

BTW, there are monsters they kill/ward off but they are more of a zombie like nuisance than the focus of the game. They are called Creepers.[/quote]

The voilence level involved with killing this monsters is less than what you would see in a PG Disney film too.

[sdrealtor]

That calculator was pretty cool. I asked my 12 yr old and he told me he built a basic calculator a few months ago also. The whole game is pretty amazing. He has a team of developers (also 10 to 12 y/o’s) in Sweden working for him. He is a real early riser. When I wake up in the morning I hear him downstairs on Skype conference calls with the Swedes.

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