Minecraft Minecraft Minecraft is a 2011 sandbox video game created by Swedish game developer Markus Persson and later developed by Mojang. The game allows players to build with a variety of different blocks in a 3D procedurally generated world, requiring creativity from players. Other activities in the game include exploration, resource gathering, crafting, and combat. Multiple gameplay modes are available, including survival mode in which the player must acquire resources to build the world and maintain health, creative mode where players have unlimited resources to build with and the ability to fly, adventure mode where players can play custom maps created
Minecraft "FortressCraft", "Terraria", and "Total Miner". David Frampton, designer of "The Blockheads", reported that one failure of his 2D game was the "low resolution pixel art" that too closely resembled the art in "Minecraft" which resulted in "some resistance" from fans. A homebrew adaptation of the alpha version of "Minecraft" for the Nintendo DS, titled "DScraft", has been released; it has been noted for its similarity to the original game considering the technical limitations of the system. In response to Microsoft's acquisition of Mojang and their "Minecraft" IP, various developers announced even further clone titles that were being developed specifically for