Whether you are just watching developers live stream the designing of their mods, making mods yourself, or just enjoying the commentary of various YouTuber’s interactions with the developers, the Minecraft modding community is extremely easy to become a part of. During my observations, I had interactions with people on Twitch, YouTube, MinecraftForum.net and the Industrial Craft 2 forum. The community pulls you in by teaching you the complicated intricacies of modding such a simple game. Since my personal background is Computer Science, I decided to dive head first into the technical side of the community. The Forge Mod Loader is the primary framework used to build mods. It is also the way people load more than one mod into the game. Its …show more content…
MCP was originally developed by Thomas Guimbretière, better known as ProfMobius. ProfMobius is clearly an integral part of the community. Currently, he works for Mojang (developers of Minecraft and acquired by Microsoft), but previously has made multiple mods for the game and is part of a group that calls themselves Forgecraft, a group of servers where mod-developers can test their mods in a private environment. A number of YouTubers and Twitch streamers also gather on the server and interact with the developers in a way that I’ve never seen in a community before. I feel like the publicity Forgecraft provides for mod developers is one of the reason’s that Minecraft mod development is so popular. One of the most influential names in the Forgecraft community is Direwolf20. He started uploading videos to YouTube showcasing Minecraft Mods back in 2011 and has been posting a video nearly every day since. Being one of the first channels to showcase mods individually, Direwolf20 played a huge role in growing the modding community from the ground up. In the book Reality is Broken, Jane McGonigal claims “Compared with games, reality is lonely and isolating. Games help us band together and create powerful l communities from scratch” (McGonigal, 2011). Direwolf20 wanted to show the world the cool things that Minecraft mod developers were making, and did so by forming a
I had been watching videos on Youtube about Minecraft and it looked like an extremely complex game that had lots of potential. Minecraft was not a strictly single player game like Mario, or only a multiplayer game like Toontown Online. Minecraft was a game that could be played online or offline, with friends or without friends. This meant I could work on a world that my friends and I were playing in while they were offline. Another feature of Minecraft that was important to me is the ability to make my own server. This was my gateway into programming because in order to make a Minecraft server, a java file must be downloaded and used. I was able to control my server through a command prompt. That same command prompt could also be used for simple coding with programs or languages such as batch files. An item in the game called a command block could be powered by the redstone item in order to make very complex operations occur. These commands could be awfully arduous to create, but the outcome was incredible. The commands could turn a simple game like Minecraft and turn it into a completely different game like Temple Run, by changing the way the blocks work or the terrain is
and counting he has made an impacted on the internet. Apex is the co-leader of the popular
He is the founder and director of the World Wide Consortium (W3C) the forum for technical development of the Web. He is a graduate from Oxford University. He invented the Web while he was at CERN, the European Particle Physics Laboratory, in 1989.
The first settlers came to Apex NC in the 1860s. Not too long after settlement, the town was incorporated in 1873. Most of the history of Apex is derived from the railroad system that went through the community. Even the town’s name can be traced by to the system. As the highest point along the railroad between Richmond, Virginia to Jacksonville, Florida, the town was named Apex.
I have gained a lot of Skill throughout my time in the Minecraft community. I've learned a lot and I've been taught a lot from various people in the community.
Mark E. Fischbach or better known as Markiplier is an American gaming YouTuber. He has 15,225,387 subscribers and each day that number gets bigger and bigger. He has 3,200+ videos and uploads 2-3 times a day. You can find Mark at any one of his many social media, Twitter- @Markiplier, Instagram- @markipliergram, Tumblr- markiplier, Twitch-Markiplier, and any other social media he might have. Markiplier’s a huge inspiration for many people, he has donated a lot of money to charity, and he is a great person.
He is an American internet entrepreneur, and the co-founder and promoter of the online non-profit encyclopedia, Wikipedia, and the for-profit wikia web hosting company.
Billy McFarland launched Magnises a private club for young professionals as an answer to the Millennials social gathering deficit. This twenty something was born in New York City and raised in Short Hills, New Jersey. He attended Bucknell University briefly before starting his own business called Spling. The goal of this company is to translate URLs from text into graphics. Discovery and Universal are some of his clients. Next, McFarland started Magnises card.
Past Experience: I was Admin on MergePots, Co-Owner on HCPvP (which was never released do to lack of funds) and Mod on Velocity Factions, Pigcraft Factions, Pigcraft Prison, and Dinocraft. Velocity, Pigcraft, and Dinocraft were all shut down eventually but had small player bases of around 5 to 30 players daily. On Velocity we reached 100 players once but that was the max we ever got. On MergePots I resigned about a week ago and we had a player base of 10 to 20 players for map 1 but I resigned right before map 2 released.
You are running for your life past a vast landscape. You fly past forests, ravines, lakes, mountains, and pools of lava without stopping. You look back and see a horde of spiders, zombies, living skeletons, and armless green abominations that will blow up when they get close to you. You must survive until dawn, when those monsters will burn in daylight and you can gather resources to survive the next night. On the other hand, you could be a god, flying, spawning items without consequence, building whatever you like and impervious to attacks. These two scenarios occur often when you immerse yourself in Minecraft, but Minecraft is more than just a game. “Is Too Much Minecraft Mind-Numbing for Kids with ADHD?” by Randy Kulman, Ph. D. states
I can help BrutalNetwork in multiple ways. I am not much of a pvp person so that takes me to the chat moderation and to help other members of the server.
What makes the story of Minecraft so unique is that it was created by Notch and only Notch. Notch had a job before Minecraft, working on games for a company. He started to work on Minecraft in his free time but after a giant popularity spike he realized that it could be a hit, so he quit his job and began
My first medium server experience would be on a server mineblast. I was helper for about a month then was offered a promotion to moderator because of my online time and activity on the forums. I was a moderator for about 3 weeks then I resigned because the server was going down, and the owners didn't seem to care. I was very active and played almost every day during the week. Also owner a server called omega factions.
Long ago, a few years after the Ender Plague, Creator Notch had finally completed the creation of the majority of the Worlds of Minecraftia. He had created it to be large enough for numerous players to roam about and live in it. He had become content with his creation, but he could not watch over every part of it by himself. He needed a form of assistance.
Being a maker is like being an artist. You can create anything your brain comes up with. A maker is basically a creator who thinks outside of the box to create, improve or learn something either alone or with other makers. Makers usually create in certain places called makerspaces. Makerspaces are creative, do it yourself spaces where people can gather to create, invent, and learn together or by themselves. These places are usually found in libraries or classrooms. Makers are very creative inventors and very creative learners as well. When you become a maker, you will learn a ton of new ideas and