Minecraft

Minecraft is a sandbox video game created and designed by Swedish game designer Markus "Notch" Persson, and later fully developed and published by Mojang. On 12 January 2011, Minecraft passed 1 million purchases less than a month after entering its beta phase. At the same time, the game had no publisher backing and has never been commercially advertised except through word of mouth, and various unpaid references in popular media such as the Penny Arcade webcomic. By April 2011, Persson estimated that Minecraft had made €23 million (US$33 million) in revenue, with 800,000 sales of the alpha version of the game, and over 1 million sales of the beta version.^[141] In November 2011, prior to the game's full release, Minecraft beta surpassed 16 million registered users and 4 million purchases. By March 2012, Minecraft had become the 6th best-selling PC game of all time. As of 10 October 2014, the game has sold 17 million copies on PC, becoming the best-selling PC game of all time. As of 10 October 2014, the game has sold approximately 60 million copies across all platforms, making it one of the best-selling video games of all time. On 25 February 2014, the game reached 100 million registered users. As of February 2017, over 121 million copies had been sold, making it the best-selling PC gameto date and the second best-selling video game of all time behind Tetris.

Minecraft
Developer(s)	Mojang
Publisher(s)	Mojang (PC, mobile, Wii U, Nintendo Switch) Microsoft Studios (X360, XONE, Windows Phone, Windows 10 Edition) Sony Computer Entertainment (PS3, PS4, PSV)
Designer(s)	Markus Persson[a] Jens Bergensten[b]
Artist(s)	Markus Toivonen
Composer(s)	Daniel Rosenfeld
Platform(s)	Microsoft Windows Mac OS X Linux [show]
Release	18 November 2011[show]
Genre(s)	Sandbox, survival
Mode(s)	Single-player, multiplayer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b84Z3IRg3VA

there were a lot of youtubers that picked up mine craft after it was initially released. The first mine craft video was posted by Notch himself on his personal youtube channel "nizzotch" May 13, 2009, he titled the game with the original name "cave game" and calling it a test > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9t3FREAZ-k in the video he shows off and explains some features of the game, including some features that are still in game people play today. Notch carried on recording progress on youtube and his tumblr to show how the game was developing, most of his videos are showing off new features such as fire and water physics and dynamic lighting within the game.

The success of the games market.

–The UK’s   US$4 billion;

–China,   US$24.4 billion

–America’s   US$23.6 billion.

•A recent report by the UKIE1 suggests that the global games market is now worth in excess of US$100 billion.    

•In comparison to traditional media like film, radio, print and television, video games are much younger, exponentially growing since the 1970s.

•Without the commercial backing of a mainstream publisher, and no money spent on advertising revenue, the game relied on word of mouth between gamers and featured on sites such as the Penny Arcade web comic to generate interest amongst gamers.•by January 2011, the beta-version of the game had passed over one million purchases in just only a month, and
by April 2011
by April 2011 Persson estimated that US$33 million of revenue had been made.

WHAT IS MINECRAFT: EDUCATION EDITION?

Minecraft: Education Edition is an open-world game that promotes creativity, collaboration, and problem-solving in an immersive environment where the only limit is your imagination.

Educators in grades K-12 are using Minecraft: Education Edition to teach a range of subjects, from history and chemistry to sustainability and foreign languages, and can map lessons directly to specific learning outcomes and curriculum standards.

Minecraft: Education Edition helps prepare students for the future workplace, building skills like collaboration, communication, critical thinking and systems thinking. The open learning environment gives students the freedom to experiment, encouraging creative self-expression and problem solving.

Code Builder is a feature that allows students to learn coding in Minecraft using tools including Code.org, Tynker, Scratch and Microsoft MakeCode. Students can use blocks of code or JavaScript to build and create in Minecraft. Minecraft Hour of Code also offers a free, one-hour introduction to coding basics.

In November 2011, prior to the game’s official release, Minecraft had over 16 million registered users and
4 million purchases. Due to its popularity,
4 million purchases. Due to its popularity, Minecraft was released across multiple platforms becoming a commercially viable franchise with increased interactivity. In particular, Minecraft: Pocket Edition was released on Sony Xperia Play, available on Sony Xperia smartphones. Minecraft also become available on Android and iOS devices shortly after. 
Formats: By 2012, Minecraft was available for Xbox360 and Xbox Live.

In 2014, Microsoft acquired Minecraft intellectual property for $2.5 billion. In 2015, it reached 30 million copies sold. 

•Distribution: Versions of the game can
be purchased over the internet using such outlets
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be purchased over the internet using such outlets the Playstation Network or Xbox Live Arcade. Recent additions include the Nintendo platform which was excluded from the initial Minecraft releases; available to download from December 2015 with physical copies from June 2016 and most recently for Nintendo Switch (May 2017) and Nintendo 3DS (download
only from September 2017). The
only from September 2017). The Minecraft:
Story Mode

•2010 Minecraft was deveoped as a multiplayer game using JAVA code..

•Gamers were able to contribute to the development of the program eliminating bugs and facilitating multiplayer capability

•In September of 2013, Microsoft bought all rights to Minecraft from Mojang for $2.5 billion dollars.

•2017 Microsoft ownership develops the cross platform capability of Minecraft which is now available on C gamers but those who own smartphones, Microsoft consoles (Xbox); Playstation 3, 4 and PS Vita; and more recently Nintendo consoles (Wii U) and hand-held devices (Nintendo Switch and Nintendo New 3DS, New 2DS XL and New 3DS XL)

•This opens up the market for the game (potentially ncreasing profits)

•Newer games e.g. for smart phones were programmed in C++ (which limit the Minecraft community from modifying the code)

–Newer games such as cross platform play are more complex and refined in their graphic content.   See https://www.pcgamesn.com/minecraft/microsoft-minecraft-java-edition

–https://www.theverge.com/2017/9/20/16339242/minecraft-cross-platform-update-better-together-windows-10-pc-mobile-switch-xbox

Over time mine craft has developed adding in new stuff every year. the consumers are also developing it themselves by creating mods, some of which have been written into the game/.

•Minecraft: Story Mode, follow more of the recognisable institutional conventions of game development including tutorials on how to play the game

Minecraft: Story Mode is an episodic point-and-click graphic adventure video game developed and published by Telltale Games, based on the sandbox video game Minecraft in association with Mojang.

In this five part episodic series, you’ll embark on a perilous adventure across the Overworld, through the Nether, to the End, and beyond. You and your friends revere the legendary Order of the Stone: Warrior, Redstone Engineer, Griefer, and Architect; slayers of the Ender Dragon. While at EnderCon in hopes of meeting Gabriel the Warrior, you and your friends discover that something is wrong… something dreadful. Terror is unleashed, and you must set out on a quest to find The Order of the Stone if you are to save your world from oblivion.

Key Features

• Created by award-winning adventure game powerhouse Telltale Games, in partnership with Minecraft creators, Mojang
• Featuring the voices of Patton Oswalt (Ratatouille, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D), Brian Posehn (The Sarah Silverman Program, Mission Hill), Ashley Johnson (The Last of Us, Tales from the Borderlands), Scott Porter (Friday Night Lights, X-Men), Martha Plimpton (The Goonies, Raising Hope), Dave Fennoy (The Walking Dead: A Telltale Games Series, Batman: Arkham Knight), Corey Feldman (The Goonies, Stand by Me), Billy West (Futurama, Adventure Time), and Paul Reubens (Tron: Uprising, Pee-Wee’s Playhouse)
• You will drive the story through the decisions you make: what you say to people (and how you say it), and what you choose to do in moments of thrilling action will make this YOUR story