But when I ask you to stop I don’t want you to get angry. But I’m not sure so I’m going to let you play Minecraft again today because you are sick and I know you’re getting bored. “Well I’m worried that it’s Minecraft that made you feel that way.
“Well did you like feeling that way? That angry?” “Mate, you know how angry you got the other day when I asked you to stop playing Minecraft?” I asked. But to be fair I walked through the key issues with him beforehand. Unconvinced, I put my theory to the test on one of my son’s rare sick days. Minecraft enables players to build entire worlds from scratch. But then when I thought a little harder, I acknowledged that Louis had had his iPad for three years and he had never come even close to displaying this kind of feral behaviour. Once you’ve started it’s hard to know how to stop.Īt first I didn’t make the direct link between Louis’s behaviour and the Minecraft game I just thought it was the iPad. According to the telltale Wikipedia, Minecraft has more than 100 million registered users worldwide and is the most purchased PC game of all time with 17 million copies sold by late last year.įor some it’s like corn chips for the brain. Once adept, a player can devise, plan and execute the creation of entire worlds that are all their own. The game also involves exploration, resource gathering, crafting, and combat.
To bring you up to speed, Minecraft is a gameplay phenomenon that enables players to build worlds - castles, thrones, houses, trees, animals, fortresses, cities, countries - out of textured cubes in a 3D world.
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