Quite a will ago i stumbled across a game called Minecraft, because it was mentioned on the team fortress 2 blog. It is certainly an interesting game. For a lot of people the graphics, or should i say, art style, are an interesting choice. I suspect they are as simple as they are is because it is only been worked on by one indie game developer until now.
The purpose of the game is to survive, and build what ever you want. You start with nothing and simply punch the ground or trees to collect blocks of dirt, wood etc. You can then craft items to create others and combine them to make tools, armor and weapons. What i love about this game is the fact that each time you create a new game the level is randomly generated, and can become the up to 8 times the size of the earth, or until your computer runs out of steam. Here is a fly over, showing the random generator at work:
It can produced some amazing scenes even though it is made out of blocks.
I'm quite a fan of indie games, they show promising ideas, unlike many mainstream developers, producing the same first person shooters over and over, just with slightly better graphics.
You can play the free version if you visit www.minecraft.net where you have unlimited blocks and can only build things, if you want to get the most out of it you have to pay, and it has only just entered beta. I reckon in the next 6 months this game will be pretty damn popular.
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