Adam Englebright's Half-Formed Thought

• 2013-04-07

  Ten of the Most Beautiful Libraries Ever Built (In Minecraft)

• 2012-07-20

  MineCraftWebGL

  OK, this is jolly clever.

• 2012-07-05

  Minecraft Game of Thrones project builds a blocky Westeros | PC Gamer

  This is aces, obviously, but this being Minecraft, couldn’t they have made it all pop up out of the ground on gears and such as in the opening credits? (Probably not).

• 2011-09-17

  Minecraft Adventure Update

  I bought Minecraft ages ago, and played it for a while. Then I stopped. I forgot why, and with the advent of the Adventure Update, thought I’d give it another shot. Oh. I remember why. Playing Minecraft is, bar none, the most tense, fraught experience I’ve ever had playing a videogame. Upon the fall of night, I casually sauntered up the hill upon which I’d placed my workbench and started to create a little box to hide in until the monsters went away. No mosters yet, thankfully, a pig over there, and a spider… crap, a spider. Box box box. Do I need a roof? I don’t want to be left in total AAAAA the spider’s jumped in! It’s in here with me! Swordswordsword! Dead spider. Right, definitely need a roof. Crikey that was a close one. I can just wait for a bit now. Light? Does that mean it’s morning? Can I OH SHIT PURPLE EYES block block block until I’m surrounded by block walls three deep. Finally, morning, and I unbury myself… and get attacked by a spider, because for some reason, there’s an arbitrary number of monsters that don’t get killed by the sunlight. And dead spider, back to the mine CREEPER CREEPER CREEPER, boom, dead, respawn. 

  This is why I stopped playing Minecraft. If I played it for much longer, I’d have a coronary. The only thing I can think of that even comes close would be some of the more chainsaw psycho-laden bits in Resident Evil 4, but even that isn’t quite as intense as this.