Understanding Minecraft

by Nate Garrelts
Understanding Minecraft
Author: Nate Garrelts
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2014-10-09
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 0786479744
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Since its official release in 2011, Minecraft has sold over 48 million copies across all gaming platforms. The premise of Minecraft is simple: destroy, collect, build and interact in a world made entirely of colored cubes. Unlike Lego blocks or other construction toys, Minecraft's digital play space allows for virtually limitless creation without the cost and limitations of physical building materials. Developer Mojang's generous policies toward modification and other uses of their intellectual property also engender enthusiasm and creativity from fans who make music, art and animation inspired by the software. The first essays in this collection cover Minecraft's origins, describing its relationship to other video games and toys and examining the learning models implicit in its design. Later essays describe and theorize the various ways players interact with the software, which simultaneously presents them with structural constraints and limitless possibilities. NOT OFFICIAL MINECRAFT PRODUCT. NOT APPROVED BY OR ASSOCIATED WITH MOJANG.

Understanding Coding with Minecraft™

by Patricia Harris, Ph.D.
Understanding Coding with Minecraft™
Author: Patricia Harris, Ph.D.
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Total Pages: 26
Release: 2015-12-15
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1508144737
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Introduced in 2009, Minecraft™ has become an enormous success with gaming kids and adults. Users love exploring and building within Minecraft’s mind-bogglingly large environments. This game allows users to practice STEM skills while having fun. One of its greatest strengths is its ability to teach coding principles with “redstone” blocks. These blocks can be used to make exciting machines and devices in Minecraft’s virtual world. With this volume, readers will learn the logic and technology behind coding with Minecraft™. Photographs, diagrams, sidebars, and a graphic organizer help reinforce basic coding concepts. Minecraft is a trademark of Mojang (a game development studio owned by Microsoft Technology Corporation), and its use in this book does not imply a recommendation or endorsement of this title by Mojang or Microsoft.

Minecraft For Dummies

by Jesse Stay
Minecraft For Dummies
Author: Jesse Stay
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2015-01-20
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1118968239
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Don't be a Minecraft tourist - get expert tips and advice in this full-color primerMinecraft For Dummies is the primer you need to get up to speed.

Minecraft for Beginners

by Mojang AB
Minecraft for Beginners
Author: Mojang AB
Publisher: Random House Worlds
Total Pages: 66
Release: 2019-07-09
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 1984820877
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Curious about Minecraft, but not sure where to start? This book is just what you need. With its open-ended game play, massive world and dedicated fan base, Minecraft is a richly rewarding experience—once you get the hang of it. With easy-to-follow instructions, tips and tricks from the experts behind the game, Minecraft for Beginners will help you survive and thrive. You’ll learn how to find food, build a shelter, mine for materials and craft armor, swords and other equipment, plus get the inside scoop on places to go and the monsters you’ll encounter. What are you waiting for? Begin your Minecraft adventure today! This ebook is best viewed on a color device with a larger screen. Collect all of the official Minecraft books: Minecraft: The Island Minecraft: The Crash Minecraft: The Lost Journals Minecraft: The Survivors’ Book of Secrets Minecraft: Exploded Builds: Medieval Fortress Minecraft: Guide to Exploration Minecraft: Guide to Creative Minecraft: Guide to the Nether & the End Minecraft: Guide to Redstone Minecraft: Mobestiary Minecraft: Guide to Enchantments & Potions Minecraft: Guide to PVP Minigames Minecraft: Guide to Farming Minecraft: Let’s Build! Theme Park Adventure Minecraft for Beginners

Minecraft: Guide to Redstone (2017 Edition)

by Mojang AB
Minecraft: Guide to Redstone (2017 Edition)
Author: Mojang AB
Publisher: Random House Worlds
Total Pages: 99
Release: 2017-10-17
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 152479743X
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Learn the art of redstone and become a master engineer with Minecraft: Guide to Redstone, then put theory into practice to construct intricate contraptions in Minecraft. Pick up the basics of the redstone components and their uses, discover how to make working circuits, and create incredibly complex builds using your new skills. With insider info and tips from the experts at Mojang, this is the definitive guide to redstone in Minecraft. This ebook is best viewed on a color device with a larger screen. Collect all of the official Minecraft books: Minecraft: The Island Minecraft: The Crash Minecraft: The Lost Journals Minecraft: The Survivors’ Book of Secrets Minecraft: Exploded Builds: Medieval Fortress Minecraft: Guide to Exploration Minecraft: Guide to Creative Minecraft: Guide to the Nether & the End Minecraft: Guide to Redstone Minecraft: Mobestiary Minecraft: Guide to Enchantments & Potions Minecraft: Guide to PVP Minigames Minecraft: Guide to Farming Minecraft: Let’s Build! Theme Park Adventure Minecraft for Beginners

Minecraft: The Island

by Max Brooks
Minecraft: The Island
Author: Max Brooks
Publisher: Random House Worlds
Total Pages: 218
Release: 2017-07-18
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0399181784
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The first official Minecraft novel! The author of World War Z tells the story of a hero—stranded in the world of Minecraft—who must unravel the secrets of a mysterious island in order to survive. “A rollicking adventure yarn; Robinson Crusoe for the digital age.”—NPR Washed up on a beach, the lone castaway looks around the shore. Where am I? Who am I? And why is everything made of blocks? But there isn’t much time to soak up the sun. It’s getting dark, and there’s a strange new world to explore! The top priority is finding food. The next is not becoming food. Because there are others out there on the island . . . like the horde of zombies that appears after nightfall. Crafting a way out of this mess is a challenge like no other. Who could build a home while running from exploding creepers, armed skeletons, and an unstoppable tide of hot lava? Especially with no help except for a few makeshift tools and sage advice from an unlikely friend: a cow. In this world, the rules don’t always make sense, but courage and creativity go a long way. There are forests to explore, hidden underground tunnels to loot, and undead mobs to defeat. Only then will the secrets of the island be revealed. Collect all of the official Minecraft books: Minecraft: The Island Minecraft: The Crash Minecraft: The Lost Journals Minecraft: The Survivors’ Book of Secrets Minecraft: Exploded Builds: Medieval Fortress Minecraft: Guide to Exploration Minecraft: Guide to Creative Minecraft: Guide to the Nether & the End Minecraft: Guide to Redstone Minecraft: Mobestiary Minecraft: Guide to Enchantments & Potions Minecraft: Guide to PVP Minigames Minecraft: Guide to Farming Minecraft: Let’s Build! Theme Park Adventure Minecraft for Beginners

Understanding Coding with Minecraft™

by Patricia Harris, Ph.D.
Understanding Coding with Minecraft™
Author: Patricia Harris, Ph.D.
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Total Pages: 26
Release: 2015-12-15
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1508144702
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Introduced in 2009, Minecraft™ has become an enormous success with gaming kids and adults. Users love exploring and building within Minecraft’s mind-bogglingly large environments. This game allows users to practice STEM skills while having fun. One of its greatest strengths is its ability to teach coding principles with “redstone” blocks. These blocks can be used to make exciting machines and devices in Minecraft’s virtual world. With this volume, readers will learn the logic and technology behind coding with Minecraft™. Photographs, diagrams, sidebars, and a graphic organizer help reinforce basic coding concepts. Minecraft is a trademark of Mojang (a game development studio owned by Microsoft Technology Corporation), and its use in this book does not imply a recommendation or endorsement of this title by Mojang or Microsoft.

Minecraft Guide Collection

by Mojang AB (Firm)
Minecraft Guide Collection
Author: Mojang AB (Firm)
Publisher:
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2017-10-05
Genre: Computer adventure games
ISBN: 9781405288576
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COMPUTER GAME GUIDES (CHILDREN'S / TEENAGE). Four Minecraft Guides in one slipcase! The Guide to Exploration will teach you how to thrive in the Overworld in Survival mode. The Guide to Creative will teach you how to build amazing constructions. The Guide to Redstone will teach you how to use this amazing substance to create circuits.The Guide to the Nether and the End will teach you how to survive in each of these dangerous dimensions. Age 9+

Exploring Minecraft

by Larissa Hjorth
Exploring Minecraft
Author: Larissa Hjorth
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2021-01-04
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 3030599086
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This book directs critical attention to one of the most ubiquitous and yet under-analyzed games, Minecraft. Drawing on three years of ethnographic fieldwork into mobile games in Australian homes, the authors seek to take Minecraft seriously as a cultural practice. The book examines how Minecraft players engage in a form of gameplay that is uniquely intergenerational, creative, and playful, and which moves ambivalently throughout everyday life. At the intersection of digital media, quotidian literacy, and ethnography, the book situates interdisciplinary debates around mundane play through the lens of Minecraft. Ultimately, Exploring Minecraft seeks to coalesce the discussion between formal and informal learning, fostering new forms of digital media creativity and ethnographic innovation around the analysis of games in everyday life.