Minecraft

Minecraft

Minecraft

Developer(s)Mojang

Additional work by:

1. 4J Studios (Consoles) Microsoft Studios (Xbox One, Wii U)Publisher(s)

1. Mojang (PC, mobile, Wii U)

2. Microsoft Studios (X360, XONE, Windows Phone, Windows 10 Edition)

3. Sony Computer Entertainment(PS3, PS4, PSV)Designer(s)

1. Markus Persson[a]

2. Jens Bergensten[b]Artist(s)

1. Kristoffer Zetterstrand

2. Markus ToivonenComposer(s)Daniel RosenfeldPlatform(s)

1. Microsoft Windows

1. OS X

1. Linux

1. Android

1. iOS

1. Windows Phone

1. Xbox 360

1. Xbox One

1. PlayStation 3

1. PlayStation 4

1. PlayStation Vita

1. Raspberry Pi

1. Universal Windows Platform

1. Wii URelease date(s)

18 November 2011

1. Microsoft Windows, OS X, and Linux

2. WW 18 November 2011[1]

Android

1. WW 7 October 2011[2]

iOS

1. WW 17 November 2011[3]

Xbox 360

1. WW 9 May 2012[4]

Raspberry Pi

1. WW 11 February 2013[5]

PlayStation 3

1. NA 17 December 2013

2. EU 18 December 2013

PlayStation 4

1. WW 4 September 2014[6]

Xbox One

1. WW 5 September 2014[7]

PlayStation Vita

1. NA 14 October 2014[8]

2. EU 15 October 2014

Windows Phone

1. WW 10 December 2014[9]

Windows 10 Edition

1. WW 29 July 2015[10]

Wii U

1. WW 17 December 2015[11]Genre(s)Sandbox, survivalMode(s)Single-player, multiplayer

Minecraft is a sandbox video game originally created by Swedish programmer Markus “Notch” Persson and later developed and published by Mojang. The creative and building aspects of Minecraft enable players to build constructions out of textured cubes in a 3D procedurally generated world. Other activities in the game include exploration, resource gathering, crafting, and combat. Multiple gameplay modes are available, including survival mode where the player must acquire resources to build the world and maintain health, a creative mode where players have unlimited resources to build with and the ability to fly, an adventure modewhere players can play custom maps created by other players, and a spectator mode where players can fly around and clip through blocks, but cannot place or destroy any. The PC version of the game is renowned for itsthird-party mods, which add various new items, characters, worlds, and quests to the game.

Minecraft received five awards during the 2011 Game Developers Conference. Of theGame Developers Choice Awards, it won the Innovation Award, Best Downloadable Game Award, and Best Debut Game Award; from theIndependent Games Festival, it won the Audience Award and the Seumas McNally Grand Prize. In 2012, Minecraft was awarded a Golden Joystick Award in the category Best Downloadable Game. As of June 2016, over 106 million copies had been sold, with more than 40 million unique Minecraft players each month across all the various platforms the game is available on[12] making it the best-selling PC game to date and the second best-selling video game of all time behind Tetris. On 15 September 2014, Microsoft announced a deal to buy Mojang and the Minecraftintellectual property for US$2.5 billion; the acquisition was completed on 6 November 2014.[13][14][15][16]