by Stone Marshall | Sep 25, 2018 | Awesome Book News, Free, Intro, Minecraft News, Minecraft questions, news, parent-news, State of Stone, Stone Marshall Book News, Stone Marshall Books, Stone Marshall Club, Stone Marshall Minecraft Adventures, Uncategorized |
“In this extended short, City Beautiful takes on the old school classic SimCity from the perspective of a professional planner 20 years later. Along the way, City Beautiful provides pertinent observations of game play versus reality. — theurbanist.org
Urban Design Ph.D student Dave Amos circles back around to the game that sparked his passion as a kid playing computer games. An advocate for sustainable living and diverse cities, Amos plays through the old school SimCity game providing relevant insights learned over the years in his career.
by Stone Marshall | Sep 25, 2018 | Awesome Book News, Free, Intro, Minecraft News, Minecraft questions, news, parent-news, State of Stone, Stone Marshall Book News, Stone Marshall Books, Stone Marshall Club, Stone Marshall Minecraft Adventures, Uncategorized |
While normally used by online gamers to create a generated world for exploration and combat, the world-building computer game Minecraft has been noted for its architectural capabilities. BlockWorks, a design studio in the UK, uses the game as a design tool to create materials for marketing, media, and education; a competition in Australia a few years back invited students to design a national park using the block-building program; and Bjarke Ingels has proselytized at length that the architecture field should become more like the game as well.
Providing an online platform to build the world we want to inhabit, Minecraft's great distinction is its offer of complete freedom from real world constraints—there's no clients, no engineers, and no financial restrictions. Testing those limits, architect and designer Andrew McClure of Nomad Design set out to build something using Minecraft. Educated on the program by his young cousin, McClure picked a site in the desert, laid out a foundation, and built his contemporary dream home, cantilevers and all.
by Stone Marshall | Sep 24, 2018 | Awesome Book News, Free, Intro, Minecraft News, Minecraft questions, news, parent-news, State of Stone, Stone Marshall Book News, Stone Marshall Books, Stone Marshall Club, Stone Marshall Minecraft Adventures, Uncategorized |
Minecraft – or, specifically, the Minecraft Bedrock Edition series of titles – has now received dedicated servers for players across the board. Unfortunately, this feature has arrived on every platform other than Nintendo Switch.
Dedicated servers allow players on Windows and Linux computers to set up their own server at home, or host their server using a cloud-based service. From here, other players owning a Bedrock edition of the game can join in, giving those in your specific server the power to configure your world however you like with your own unique settings, modes, server life cycle, and more.
An article on developer Mojang's support page has confirmed the fact that Switch owners cannot take part in this new feature.
Q: Who can play on my dedicated server?
A: Anyone playing on the bedrock editions will be able to connect to the server, with the current exception of Nintendo Switch users. Also, players on Xbox One will only be able to connect through a LAN connection.
The “current exception” part of that statement provides hope that Switch players will be able to join in the fun at a later date, but the lack of explanation behind the move is a little frustrating. Hopefully, Mojang is busy working behind the scenes to implement the feature on Nintendo's console, too, but we'll just have to wait and hope for an official announcement on this in due course.
Do you play Minecraft on Switch? Would you like to jump into dedicated servers with your friends? Let us know below.
by Stone Marshall | Sep 23, 2018 | Awesome Book News, Free, Intro, Minecraft News, Minecraft questions, news, parent-news, State of Stone, Stone Marshall Book News, Stone Marshall Books, Stone Marshall Club, Stone Marshall Minecraft Adventures, Uncategorized |
The beauty of Minecraft is that it’s an absolute sandbox in which you can accomplish just about anything your brain can dream up. Gamers have taken on massive architectural projects in the game, like a realistic Japanese city, the world of The Witcher 3, the area seen in Spirited Away, and many other impressive feats. Minecraft can turn anybody into an architect, but what happens when an actual architect tries building a house in the game? That’s what BuzzFeed decided to test in a new video, and the results are interesting (via Geekologie).
Andrew McClure, a designer who specializes in custom high-end residential design, approached this endeavor as a self-described Minecraft noob, so his hope was that some of the software he uses to design homes for work would have some overlap with the tools available in the game. He was given two hours to build whatever he wanted, and he approached it very much like a real job.
He began by surveying the area, its lighting, and other factors that are important to consider when designing a building IRL. Once he got a lay of the land, he got to work, explaining parts of his process on the way. What resulted from this experiment is a modern, nicely designed house with a focus on light, function, and aesthetic. If anything, this video reinforces the fact that Minecraft is a versatile space and can be used for silly fun or more seriously thought-out projects.
What do you think of this Minecraft house? What’s the best thing you’ve ever built in-game? Let us know down in the comments!
by Stone Marshall | Sep 23, 2018 | Awesome Book News, Free, Intro, Minecraft News, Minecraft questions, news, parent-news, State of Stone, Stone Marshall Book News, Stone Marshall Books, Stone Marshall Club, Stone Marshall Minecraft Adventures, Uncategorized |
YouTube gamer Callum Knight, a.k.a SeaPeeKay, is a knight by name, but also became king of the castle by achieving the Fastest time to build a castle in Minecraft creative mode (PC edition).
The attempt took place at Guinness World Records' London HQ on 21 March 2018, when we challenged him to build the custom castle.
After three attempts, he managed to clinch the title with a time of 4 minutes 20 seconds.
However, even directly after his success full attempt he was thinking of ways to shave seconds of his time.
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“I was being very careful to not misplace blocks, which I think slowed me down,” he said. “I feel I could’ve knocked more time off if I’d worked out the quickest and most efficient way to place the blocks.”
You can take that advice and run with it, as Callum's castle record is up for grabs in the Minecraftreader challenges, which can be found in Guinness World Records: Gamer's Edition 2019.
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Callum has had a taste of record-breaking before – and currently holds two titles.
At last year's Guinness World Records Gamer's Showdown, Callum set the record for Fastest time to build a house in Minecraft in survival mode, with a time of 3 minutes 54 seconds.
However, this record has since been broken twice and the current record-holder is Christopher Rüsch from Germany with a time of 3 minutes 24 seconds.
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Along with fellow gamers N60Sean and TommyT999 and showdown presenter Sam Homewood he also set the record for Most coins collected in a single round of Coin Runners team of 4 in Mario Kart 8 Deluxe with 53.
“I didn't have any records until about a year a go, and then I managed to get my first two in one sitting!
“It's a really cool thing, I love having the titles!”
From left to right: SeaPeeKay, Sam Homewood, Adjudicator Louise, N60Sean and TommyT999 at the Gamer's Showdown
From left to right: SeaPeeKay, Sam Homewood, Adjudicator Louise, N60Sean and TommyT999 at the Gamer's Showdown
His appetite for record breaking is only growing – and he suggests there may be fewer Minecraft records in store.
“One of my Guinness World Record titles is for Mario Kart, which isn't necessarily a game I'm known for playing – maybe I can find some more Mario Kart ones to smash!
“I think it's cool to have titles in games that people don't associate with me. I'm a very competitive gamer, and I like to challenge myself and play a lot of things.”
In fact, when Callum started his YouTube channel, he hadn’t ever played Minecraft before.
“I started my channel on horror games, and then met some friends who played Minecraft and they were like ‘you should try it out!' and here I am, five years later.”
Callum shifted his focus onto creating mainly Minecraft content due to the endless opportunities he felt the game offered.
“The possibilities in Minecraft are limitless. There are always new things to do every time you load up the game.”
So, what is the secret to Callum’s success?
“There's no real inner secret. It's about working hard, there's no quick path really.
“Enjoy it, but keep doing the important things, like work and school – and hopefully it goes somewhere.”
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Callum always tries to inject fun and laughter into his videos – something which motivated him to begin his YouTube channel in the first place.
“I always wanted to go some sort of comedy, but I didn't want to do stand up. I'd always liked video games, so I decided to try and mix the two together – comedy and video games!”
When starting his channel almost 6 years ago, Callum never envisaged that he may hold records like the ones he read about as a child.
“I definitely read it a lot… I had the Guinness World Records book every Christmas, and now it’s like, my records could be featured!”
However, Callum’s dreams have come full circle, as his records feature in Gamer's Edition 2019 on page 96, 102, and 104!
