My goal this week was to just play the game and create a list of questions once I started. I downloaded the game, clicked a couple of buttons to start, but within minutes my daughter (who we will call A) heard the music and yelled “Its Minecraft!!!” I thought, “wow….great job Minecraft in marketing your brand!” I started moving my player through the jungle (is it a jungle?) and wasn’t quite sure what the point was. A was trying to show me how to move my player and quickly got frustrated that I was not moving him fast enough. So, she began playing. Within a couple of minutes we heard a lamb noise but couldn’t quite find where the lamb was at. I remembered from my previous research that the bad guys come out at night but I wasn’t quite sure when night time began. How long did we have before night time came along? "A" began “mining” a bunch of blocks, trees, etc. but within a couple of minutes it started to get dark- really dark. I was a little bit worried that all of a sudden horrible monsters were going to come out of nowhere and kill our character. I told A- “remember we learning how to play and if you die within a couple of minutes it's okay- it will only help us learn what not to do next time.” Right before it hard turned dark we were trying to place some of the blocks and make a house. I still couldn’t help but think, “this program has turned into a billion dollar program that is played worldwide?? How???” We still didn’t know how to place the block, where or what is was that we were trying to accomplish with the blocks so I googled “how to place a block in minecraft.” Thankfully we found a video that helped.... Only 25 seconds long and exactly what we needed. A couple of more questions that we had while playing--- Do we want to kill the animals? Do they count as “food” for us? How long until it turns night time? How long does nighttime last? Does our character need to survive like a human? Sleep at night? Eat? We both were asking each other questions and thinking out loud during the process. I would have to say that A knew a lot more about Minecraft going into the first game then I had originally thought. She immediately knew how to maneuver the player to go up/down whereas I was still trying to figure out what in the heck was on the screen. However stay tuned for the next post to find our next obstacle!
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