Minecraft
Minecraft
Commons | Tier 5 | 3 connections
- Created by Markus ‘Notch’ Persson alone in his apartment in Stockholm. Sold to Microsoft for $2.5B in 2014. 300M+ copies. The most-sold video game ever. One person, one idea, infinite worlds. Now owned by a trillion-dollar corporation.
Connections
- Markus ‘Notch’ Persson (created): Created Minecraft alone 2009. Sold to Microsoft $2.5B. Most-sold game ever.
- The Internet (enables): Minecraft’s multiplayer, distribution, and community all run on the internet.
- Brian Roderick Banks (denies_access): Minecraft teaches spatial reasoning, logic, resource management, collaboration. 97% math failure means kids can’t engage
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