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After the innovative years of pre 2k, there was a great improvement in computer games; whether it's in quality of game play mechanics, story telling, or graphics. However, there is one game that stood out from the rest which would soon be popularised and change how players see games based on its mechanics; that game is Mine craft by Mojang. Minecraft was unique at the time at its initial release and did things differently from other games rather than following the trend of building games for latest generation of hardware, mincecraft went a different direction as it decided to use pixel art for textures in game. This was so unique and was popularised it caused more games to start using pixel art in their games because of how it was heavily inspired. But the artwork itself is not what made the game popular, it's also the game play mechanics. Mincecraft brought a large interest in survival sandbox games to the computer gaming community and did something different. It focused on encouraging the player to be creative and start crafting, exploring, surviving, etc rather than getting straight in to the fight. Because of the popularity and significance of mincecraft, shortly after there was a large amount of games that started using pixel art and following the game play mechanics; one noticable example is the game terraria. While it has different aspects to the game with its 2d third person view and items in game, it's safe to say mincecraft had a significant impact on the game's creation. It's just interesting how minecraft made a significant change in computer gaming by doing something different to other game companies and managing to become so popular and influence other game developers to create create their games differently. Source: Played minecraft for >7 years. Comments are closed.
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