Creative Minecraft
I discovered minecraft the game some years ago. A student of mine introduced it to me, and it was a great way to get him to use some fairly advanced English. Then I tried it myself, and it was just like my childhood again…. lego… only on the computer.
As a matter of fact, my enjoyment comes from playing with my boys - This relates to the way we used Minecraft to interact and have fun together, as I explored in Fast, Faster. I do play it to interact with my boys. I see it as a great portal to the world of computers. Related to what I discussed in Securing Things, this experience has been quite valuable for them. It's interesting to note how our online presence and security measures can have a positive impact on our children's digital experiences. We can also play in the same world together at the same time! This is a great way to spend quality time together, and it's similar to how we used Minecraft to make videos for our experimental video series, which you can read more about in my post on Fast, Faster. It has been a nice complement to our other activities.
Now, however, we just discovered how to make resource packs. In other words, we make our own graphics for the game. Our own original artwork. Now my boys are getting interested in the more advanced graphics software, as well as the more complex folder structures involved.
We make graphics for one or two new items that occur in the world, then go and see how they look in the game! It is a real charge for them and me too to see our own hand made graphics appear in our own world in the game.
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