I said it yesterday, sometime before I bought that 4th xbox controller and just after I tasted the cloying sustenance of a new game. It stuck with me, this minecraft, and now I am fully hooked. The beauty of the game is the ability to create. You’re in this sprawling (yet blocky) world filled with mountains and forests and rivers and your one goal is to develop a safe space in which to thrive. That is the good stuff. I’ve been playing with my kids and over the course of the day we began to develop a safe haven carved out of a mountain. My goal is to keep it safe and build a home in there for all of us.
Minecraft is about creating, and as an author I am about creating as well. I don’t know that this is a valid justification for this latest addiction, but it has to be better than blasting my way through the Mass Effect Multiplayer levels. Here I have a chance to exercise and perhaps even explode my curiosity. After all, it was Dungeons and Dragons that first led me to write fantasy as Shadowrun tipped me into the realm of Sci fi.
I think I’ll continue playing the game and see where it takes me. In fact, I think I’ll play a bit right now.