Monthly Archives: May 2011

ACHIEVEMENT GET!

This morning, I was surprised to see an email from The Shaft Podcast, titled “Guest Request for The Shaft”… and I was stunned when I opened it: I know it’s a bit last minute, but we wanted to see if … Continue reading

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Do YOU want to be in Minecraft: The Story of Mojang?

2 Player Productions’ work on Minecraft: The Story of Mojang continues apace and, as previously reported in this blog, they want to feature members of the Minecraft community whose lives have been changed by Notch’s incredible indie game. After all, … Continue reading

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Sunday’s song parodies – boredom will do that to you…

In the wake of Stuck In The Nether With You, I took up a sizable chunk of yesterday writing more song parodies – all but one of which was Minecraft-related. I’ll take them in chronological order – which also happens … Continue reading

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SeedMiner – a simple and effective seed library

With the virtually infinite number of landscape-generation combinations available in Minecraft, courtesy of the “seed” feature, there’s a wide array of sites available, showing off some of the best seeds that the community has found. And the theme continues to … Continue reading

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Stuck In The Nether With You

In the late hours of Thursday night, I was hanging out with the Minecrap gang on the temp map, while we wait for all the updates we need to continue on the regular one. Rather bored, and not wanting to … Continue reading

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Introducing jessartisan, Minecrap's latest star…

It’s not often that the admins of the Minecrap server are immediately impressed by a new member’s work, but jessartisan managed that particular feat this week – and achieved quite a distinction, as you’ll find out later on in this … Continue reading

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The Portal: Another string to Hojjosh's bow!

Last night, accomplished Minecrafter/singer/rapper/songwriter Hojjosh released a new Minecraft machinima video, which is a significant departure from his “Let’s Play” and music videos: Episode 1 of a mystery/thriller series called The Portal. In The Game, the pilot episode of his … Continue reading

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More on Minecraft Pocket Edition

Since Notch tweeted this morning about Minecraft Pocket Edition coming to the Xperia Play, more details have been released about the upcoming game, via Mojang and Gamasutra. Daniel Kaplan has even gone as far as posting a (speeded-up) video on … Continue reading

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Minecraft Pocket Edition: A bombshell, casually dropped…

Holy moly! This morning, Notch tweeted about the project that Aron Nieminen and Jens Bergensten have been toiling over lately: This is the project Aron and Jens are working on: http://t.co/5sYKzbQ So I took a look at the pic, and … Continue reading

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The Beta 1.6 Trailer: Dr Trottimus, I presume?

Well, as the Minecraft world knows by now, Beta 1.6 is just around the corner, with its welter of bug-fixes (some less welcome by the community than others, if this Notch tweet is anything to go by), and some new … Continue reading

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