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The Playground and the Stage (Ep. 5)

Gamecraft

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The Sandbox Game

Minecraft was the brainchild of a Swedish developer named Marcus Person who turned the sandbox game really into a multi-billion dollar business. It's this deceptively simple looking game with a Lego block, early 80s, 8-bit graphics kind of vibe and it was just a total Wolf and Sheep's clothing. I mean, since its commercial release in 2011, it sold over 200 million copies and he refuses to go free to play.

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