Minecraft Case Study

Minecraft: A Case Study
Key Features:
·        Created by Markus Persson- a game programmer
·        Developed by Mojang
·        Released November 2011
·        Over 121 million copies sold across multiple platforms
·        27 million PC copies
·        Appeal to consumers and prosumers [ the consumer is also the producer ]
·        Sweden PEGI 7
·        A sandbox video game
·        Second most successful game behind Tetris
·        US $100B a year
·        Inspired by Dwarf Fortress
·        Originally a niche product for players with a knowledge of computer programming
·        No money originally spent on advertising
·        Relied on word of mouth
·        Began with no commercial backing of a mainstream publisher
·        Due to popularity it was released across multiple platforms
·        2012 available for XBOX 360
·        Won 5 awards at 3 conferences
·        2 game modes creative or survival
·        January 2011 had over 1 million purchases
·        Created Multi-Player mode
·        Recent addition adventure spectator

Sandbox Game- it’s described as a virtual world of Lego meaning it involves simple instructions to easily play the game. The main concepts are explore, mine and build. Users can easily log on to create a world of 3D textured cubes and play in either creative or survival mode. One inspires imagination and the other inspires adventure and competition. Appealing to all areas and all genders. It’s a game free of structure of restraint almost like an open world setting, they can roam around and make choices throughout the game.

Changes/developments in 2018 & 2019-

2018
The Update Aquatic is the name for a major update that was released for all of the Minecraft editions during 2018. On the Bedrock Edition the Update Aquatic was split into two updates due to the amount of content, with most of the features being released in Phase One on May 16, 2018 and more features released in Phase Two on July 10, 2018. The update was released on Java Edition on July 18, 2018. The update was released for Legacy Console Edition on September 11, 2018. Additionally, the Update Aquatic was released for the Education Edition on June 12, 2018; it was released on mobile devices on July 6, 2018, and on PC on July 10, 2018.

2019
 “Village and Pillage,” the update will add eleven new villagers: Librarian, Butcher, Cleric Cartographer, Leatherworker, Fletcher, Shepherd, Farmer, Fisher, Armorer, Toolsmith, and Weaponsmith. Each villager will be unique depending on the biome that they’re in. The Pillagers will be a group of people who can attack villagers with their beasts. Mojang’s Jens Bergensten said that the Pillagers “will raid in groups” alongside a new monster mini-boss., Mojang will add cute cats and pandas to Minecraft via the 2018 holiday update. In other news, Mojang announced an interesting new game called Minecraft: Dungeons – an adventure game for up to four players inspired by classic dungeon crawlers.

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