The Playground and the Stage (Ep. 5)
Gamecraft
What Makes Minecraft Special?
Minecraft is one of the first real examples that we see of a game being distributed and breaking through on the internet, completely on its own as an indie developer. And I think a lot of that can be actually attributed to the sandbox nature of this game. There have been tens of millions of videos of Minecraft play that have been uploaded to the YouTube platform. Kids who don't even play the game watch the YouTube videos purely for entertainment purposes, even if they're not Minecraft players.
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