Games Design Project

Research

Minecraft is a 3D sandbox game where players interact with a fully modifiable three-dimensional environment made of blocks and entitles. Its diverse gameplay lets players choose the way they play.

The game was fully released on November 18th 2011. Since its release, Minecraft has been released onto the following:

The game was first released on pc java edition and since then the game has had many updates and developed a lot. As it got released on more technology things such as map sizes where changed to be bigger since the consoles etc could handle it.

The developers of Minecraft first announced that they would support cross-platform play between PC and mobile back in June 2016. Shortly after, Minecraft expanded this support to consoles like Xbox One and the Nintendo Switch in 2017.

One big thing that is different is the amount of blocks/items in the game. When minecraft was first released there was only ever the basic blocks where as now there is over 150 different types of blocks and close to 400 unique items.