Seven spectacular Minecraft creations Many of us will have been first introduced to Minecraft when Microsoft announced it was paying $2.5bn (£1.5bn) for the company behind the best-selling video game. But for several years now a dedicated community has been beavering away in the Minecraft universe, painstakingly creating intricate cyberspace marvels. Here are seven of the best: Game of Thrones Mapmakers WesterosCraft are on a mission to recreate the universe imagined by George RR Martin in the Game of Thrones books and TV series. The aim is to provide a stage for roleplaying within the fantasy world. A working 16-bit computer A Minecraft gamer who goes by the username ohmganesha built a functioning 16-bit computer in just two weeks. The virtual machine includes 32 bytes of RAM (random-access memory) and 256 bytes of ROM (read-only memory). This Cathedral Patrix, the edifices architect, said it took him just a couple of nights to build. He added that he had never been to a cathedral in real life. A working hard drive Cody Littleys hard drive can store a single kilobyte of data, which may seem unimpressive when compared with everyday discs, until you consider that Mr Littley - a computer science PhD student in Texas - built it piece-by-piece. An entire city The artists behind the Aurora City Project admit it may never be completed, and the detail of their cityscapes give some indication as to why. All of Denmark The Danish governments quest to get the entire country mapped on Minecraft was undertaken to help educate children. However, the project was subsequently vandalised, with portions of the landscape blown up using virtual dynamite. A playable guitar Minecraft creator Discos cyber guitar can play 10 basic open chords.
Posted on: Fri, 19 Sep 2014 08:53:33 +0000
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