In 2010 my nephew who was about 7 or 8 at the time, wanted me to play a game with him. It was a game called Minecraft.
A game of building and survival. I resisted for a couple months because I was into something else and it was not as easy to get it back then. I went to the game makers website Mojang and looked at buying it. But they were not an american company. They were way out in Sweden. You needed paypal to get it and since it was a purchase outside the USA it was a bit more difficult.
So after I bought the game I played it myself to make sure my young nephew could play it. Once we started playing we were hooked.
We were playing survival back then. I would go on YouTube and look for videos with hint’s and tips to build more and survive better. Recipes for objects were more difficult back then. I eventually found a book filled with all the recipes and tips and tricks. So my nephew and I would build and have adventures together. It really brought us closer because it was something he knew more about than me. He had a bunch of friends that played it at school and he learned much about it.
After a while we found the creative mode. A mode that would let you build anything without mining or gathering materials. That’s when things went from to a fun video game to something we could build and be creative and also be art. Eventually I bought a server so my nephew and his friends and I could build together in one place. That is when I really started watching videos and listening to podcasts about Minecraft. One of those podcasts was a show called Minecraft Me.
MinecraftMe was a audio and video podcast about Minecraft and that’s it. Chase and Joe would show us how to build and what was possible. They also had a server that people could build on.
After that my server became much better. We made much bigger projects and buildings. We made malls, office buildings, hotels and more. But eventually around 2016 or 2017 my love of Minecraft waned, but more importantly my PC died, So I couldn’t play anymore.
But earlier this year I tried playing Minecraft on my Xbox One, it wasn’t the same. I was so used to keyboard and mouse a controller was difficult to use. But I kept playing and eventually I got used to it and started building again. A month or so my nephew and his friends were on Xbox and saw me playing Minecraft and asked if they could join. Once they were on the server my nephew said it was a huge wave of nostalgia.Over the last few months I have become really in to Minecraft. They saw my map and how developed it was and were surprised. I was building on a large island and there were smaller ones nearby so I said they could have an Island to themselves.
They started building and it was like in the beginning.
Minecraft is back baby. It’s the tenth anniversary and it’s just as fun as when I started.
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