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Speaker 1: Get in techt with technology with text stuff from how

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Speaker 1: stuff works dot com either everyone, and welcome to tex Stuff.

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Speaker 1: I'm Jonathan Strick and I and we've got a topic

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Speaker 1: that you guys are really gonna dig. Did you do

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Speaker 1: that pun in the first the first episode about Minecraft?

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Speaker 1: I don't know, because I didn't listen to it before

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Speaker 1: the show, but I probably did so. So way back

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Speaker 1: when Jonathan and Mr Chris Pollette did an episode about Minecraft,

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Speaker 1: and it has been suggested by essentially the Internet that

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Speaker 1: we do another one. Yeah, it turns out that people

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Speaker 1: love this game so much that one episode is not enough.

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Speaker 1: In fact, I think there are plenty of people out

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Speaker 1: there who would just like it if we had mind

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Speaker 1: do that. But we are going to update that old

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Speaker 1: podcast because, as it turns out, back then when Chris

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Speaker 1: videos on YouTube, we had read up on it, we

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Speaker 1: And so at that point in time, it was still

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Speaker 1: in beta, the official version had not been released. They

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Speaker 1: have been taking pre orders, but there, but the official

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Speaker 1: version had not come out yet, it was still just

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Speaker 1: a beta program. And um yeah, it just turned out

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Speaker 1: that it was to us to Christen myself, it was

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Speaker 1: like Pokemon, something that we could research but didn't really understand.

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Speaker 1: And and I do want to say I have actually

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Speaker 1: go ahead and be up front. I have played Minecraft

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Speaker 1: on Xbox three sixty, which all die hard fans of

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Speaker 1: Minecraft and even casual fans. No, is a much more

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Speaker 1: on PCs and Max. But we'll we'll get into all

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Speaker 1: of that. Yeah. Yeah, it's you know, we really wanted

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Speaker 1: they have a merge deal with Lego. It's an independent game. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's kind of No one was ever expecting this to

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Speaker 1: who who programmed it. But it's funny because the Lego

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Speaker 1: thing to me just means it's gone full circle, right,

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Speaker 1: because when you look at Minecraft, if you're trying to

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Speaker 1: you're like, well, it's blocks, and you put the blocks

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Speaker 1: kinda it's kind of like that, but there there's so

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Speaker 1: much more to it, right if you can make the

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Speaker 1: with say the Lord of the Rings Lego set, and

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Speaker 1: and there were zombies. You have to put the Walking

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Speaker 1: It's not golf game. Um, but no, they're these animals

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Speaker 1: iOS and also andreft. The October seven was when it

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Speaker 1: came out on Android, and then on November seventeenth this

430
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Speaker 1: when it came out for iOS. And on November eight

431
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Speaker 1: that's when Minecraft had its official release. Keeping in mind

432
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Speaker 1: that people have been playing this game for two years already, uh,

433
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Speaker 1: they in various stages and and for a while. In fact,

434
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Speaker 1: I think you can still get Minecraft Classic for free,

435
00:22:48,520 --> 00:22:52,600
Speaker 1: which is based upon the original code for Minecraft. The

436
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Speaker 1: new game. The game that actually you can purchase it

437
00:22:55,800 --> 00:22:57,879
Speaker 1: varies depending upon where you are in the United States,

438
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Speaker 1: around twenty seven dollars or twenty six a five something

439
00:23:00,760 --> 00:23:03,520
Speaker 1: like that in the US to buy a copy on

440
00:23:03,720 --> 00:23:08,080
Speaker 1: PC um. But the Minecraft Classic one is free to download.

441
00:23:08,600 --> 00:23:11,960
Speaker 1: Um there they are two different games, really, And then

442
00:23:12,200 --> 00:23:14,639
Speaker 1: the Xbox version of course has its own pricing. And

443
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Speaker 1: while it hasn't happened yet, and I kind of wrote

444
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Speaker 1: this later in the timeline, but I'm gonna go ahead

445
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Speaker 1: and say it. Uh, the PlayStation four and the Xbox

446
00:23:23,240 --> 00:23:27,000
Speaker 1: One will both also have Minecraft on them um PlayStation four.

447
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Speaker 1: That will be the first time anyone on the PlayStation

448
00:23:29,240 --> 00:23:32,960
Speaker 1: platform who didn't have an experience could actually play this game.

449
00:23:33,000 --> 00:23:38,640
Speaker 1: So I expect the numbers will continue to explode. Um.

450
00:23:38,720 --> 00:23:41,399
Speaker 1: The game has been incredibly popular. I was really I

451
00:23:41,480 --> 00:23:45,879
Speaker 1: was at the the Microsoft press release at E three

452
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Speaker 1: this past year, and uh, the Xbox One press release.

453
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Speaker 1: One of the games they showed off was Minecraft. I mean,

454
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Speaker 1: among all of these really high graphics, crazy sound, all

455
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Speaker 1: of this, you know, big staff, and then Minecraft. Yeah,

456
00:24:01,800 --> 00:24:04,440
Speaker 1: and it got a huge response, just big cheer from

457
00:24:04,480 --> 00:24:07,680
Speaker 1: the audience. I'm like, never before have giant one meter

458
00:24:07,800 --> 00:24:11,560
Speaker 1: blocks looked in higher fidelity than right now in fidelity

459
00:24:11,560 --> 00:24:13,240
Speaker 1: and knows the wrong word I should say resolution, but

460
00:24:13,600 --> 00:24:16,000
Speaker 1: at any rate, it was. It was amusing to me

461
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Speaker 1: to see the the massive power of the Xbox One

462
00:24:20,359 --> 00:24:24,439
Speaker 1: compared to the Xbox six anyway, being used to do Minecraft. However,

463
00:24:24,600 --> 00:24:27,680
Speaker 1: that being said, again, the differences between the Xbox version

464
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Speaker 1: and the PC version are pretty vast. Like, the Xbox

465
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Speaker 1: version is much smaller, the individual worlds are smaller than

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Speaker 1: the the PC version. So for example, if you start

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Speaker 1: in your spawn area and just walk in a straight

468
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Speaker 1: line from where you started. Eventually you hit the end

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Speaker 1: of the world. Uh. In the Xbox version, it takes

470
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Speaker 1: place much more quickly than it would in the PC version,

471
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Speaker 1: and in fact, in the PC version, it would continue

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Speaker 1: to try and generate the world. And one of the

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Speaker 1: problems that the earlier builds of Minecraft had was that

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Speaker 1: if you went beyond a certain point, it ran out

475
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Speaker 1: of computer memory, and so you would have these big

476
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Speaker 1: gaps in the world, and they used to refer to

477
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Speaker 1: that area as the end. It's now a goal for

478
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Speaker 1: you to journey to the end. It's actually part of

479
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Speaker 1: the the end game of Minecraft, if you want to

480
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Speaker 1: think of it that way. And it's kind of funny

481
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Speaker 1: because it's one of those things that sort of popped

482
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Speaker 1: up as a result of just the limitations of the

483
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Speaker 1: game itself. But like I said, the Xbox version much

484
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Speaker 1: more limited. I expect the Xbox one the world's will

485
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Speaker 1: be larger. They just recently increase the size within um

486
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Speaker 1: uh the Xbox three six version. I noticed because I'm

487
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Speaker 1: currently building a tower in my quest for the Biggest Castle. Yeah.

488
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Speaker 1: Right now, I'm just building a skyscraper because my castle's

489
00:25:42,600 --> 00:25:45,159
Speaker 1: I get to a point where I burn out. So

490
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Speaker 1: now I'm building a a ten by ten actually I

491
00:25:49,640 --> 00:25:53,760
Speaker 1: guess it's technically eleven by eleven tower, and it's currently

492
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Speaker 1: I think thirteen stories tall and each story is three

493
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Speaker 1: meters tall. So if you want to help me build

494
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Speaker 1: my tower, look for John B. Strickland on Xbox Life

495
00:26:04,080 --> 00:26:07,440
Speaker 1: because I'm on there all the time. Guys. Anyway, Um,

496
00:26:07,480 --> 00:26:09,560
Speaker 1: so that was a big tangent. Let's get back into

497
00:26:09,800 --> 00:26:14,160
Speaker 1: the timeline. Yes, So, by the end of eleven, Notch

498
00:26:14,240 --> 00:26:17,439
Speaker 1: had stopped working on Minecraft, and in December he was

499
00:26:17,760 --> 00:26:21,359
Speaker 1: you know, I when he speaks about video games, he

500
00:26:21,400 --> 00:26:25,040
Speaker 1: reminds me a little bit of Sidmyer, and I mean

501
00:26:25,040 --> 00:26:26,920
Speaker 1: a because he just sounds like a really nice dude

502
00:26:26,960 --> 00:26:31,480
Speaker 1: and be he is so passionate about creating games, about

503
00:26:31,480 --> 00:26:34,520
Speaker 1: the actual developer programming part of it, and is a

504
00:26:34,560 --> 00:26:39,120
Speaker 1: little bit disinterested in in the fame side of it,

505
00:26:39,520 --> 00:26:42,520
Speaker 1: and and also in the in the hoopla part. I

506
00:26:42,560 --> 00:26:45,600
Speaker 1: mean I it seems like he gets very frustrated. And

507
00:26:45,640 --> 00:26:47,960
Speaker 1: he's got a really great blog on Tumbler that all

508
00:26:48,080 --> 00:26:50,600
Speaker 1: um reblogs and stuff from, even though it's like from

509
00:26:50,720 --> 00:26:55,080
Speaker 1: two years ago, it's just really great, uh you know where,

510
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Speaker 1: And he just he just talks about getting to this

511
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Speaker 1: point where he was like, I love programming, I love

512
00:27:00,040 --> 00:27:05,200
Speaker 1: of talking about programming, and I'm really disinterested in having

513
00:27:05,240 --> 00:27:07,840
Speaker 1: anyone give me feedback on my programming when it's at

514
00:27:07,880 --> 00:27:10,000
Speaker 1: such a basic stage, because it's it's just a total

515
00:27:10,040 --> 00:27:13,679
Speaker 1: buzz cat. There's actually I've got some great quotes from him.

516
00:27:13,280 --> 00:27:15,879
Speaker 1: Uh but yeah, like he's he said specifically to that

517
00:27:16,000 --> 00:27:18,960
Speaker 1: end that he feels the pressure to repeat the success

518
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Speaker 1: of Minecraft, and that the fact that Minecraft succeeded so overwhelmingly,

519
00:27:24,080 --> 00:27:27,560
Speaker 1: so saying that it went above and beyond his his

520
00:27:28,000 --> 00:27:32,720
Speaker 1: expectations is there's that's such an an understated way of

521
00:27:32,760 --> 00:27:37,880
Speaker 1: putting it. Because he's made a hundred million dollars from

522
00:27:37,960 --> 00:27:42,040
Speaker 1: Minecraft and Minecraft merchandizing. I mean when I first saw Minecraft,

523
00:27:42,080 --> 00:27:43,920
Speaker 1: I never would have imagined that merchandizing would be a

524
00:27:43,960 --> 00:27:47,080
Speaker 1: big deal. But it's a huge deal. Yeah, in twelve alone,

525
00:27:47,160 --> 00:27:49,360
Speaker 1: he would earn over a hundred million dollars on mine.

526
00:27:49,720 --> 00:27:52,520
Speaker 1: Hundred million dollars. So he has the freedom to do

527
00:27:52,640 --> 00:27:54,960
Speaker 1: whatever he wants, and that part is great. He loves

528
00:27:55,000 --> 00:27:57,560
Speaker 1: that part. The party doesn't love so much is that

529
00:27:57,640 --> 00:28:00,680
Speaker 1: because Minecraft was such a huge success, that's what people

530
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Speaker 1: expect from him. Now they deal in another huge success. Yeah,

531
00:28:03,640 --> 00:28:07,240
Speaker 1: they want they expect another Minecraft. So that puts an

532
00:28:07,359 --> 00:28:10,320
Speaker 1: enormous amount of pressure on him to develop something that's

533
00:28:10,400 --> 00:28:13,520
Speaker 1: as good as Minecraft is, whereas he wants he wants

534
00:28:13,560 --> 00:28:15,920
Speaker 1: the freedom to be able to develop whatever he likes

535
00:28:15,960 --> 00:28:18,120
Speaker 1: and not the pressure of, oh, it has to meet

536
00:28:18,160 --> 00:28:21,600
Speaker 1: these certain expectations. Because once you have those expectations there,

537
00:28:21,640 --> 00:28:25,000
Speaker 1: that puts parameters on what you can build. Because if

538
00:28:25,000 --> 00:28:27,320
Speaker 1: it's something that just interests you and you really want

539
00:28:27,359 --> 00:28:29,720
Speaker 1: to do it, but no one else really gets it,

540
00:28:29,960 --> 00:28:32,399
Speaker 1: then you just you're setting yourself up for lots of

541
00:28:32,400 --> 00:28:34,680
Speaker 1: criticism as people like, this is not what I wanted.

542
00:28:34,720 --> 00:28:36,840
Speaker 1: I want you to build another Minecraft that's not Minecraft.

543
00:28:36,920 --> 00:28:39,320
Speaker 1: It's just as good as Minecraft. And and you know,

544
00:28:39,360 --> 00:28:41,320
Speaker 1: for example, when you're the kind of dude who just

545
00:28:41,640 --> 00:28:44,960
Speaker 1: unto himself, creates a website that lists all of the

546
00:28:45,040 --> 00:28:49,120
Speaker 1: natural numbers in existence and then tweets about it too.

547
00:28:49,240 --> 00:28:53,840
Speaker 1: You know, your one point three million followers, maybe you know,

548
00:28:54,000 --> 00:28:58,080
Speaker 1: maybe you've got other stuff going on. I'm just saying,

549
00:28:58,120 --> 00:29:00,600
Speaker 1: you know, it's it's the guys. The guy's rain works

550
00:29:00,680 --> 00:29:04,640
Speaker 1: in really interesting ways. And and being beholden to an

551
00:29:04,680 --> 00:29:07,840
Speaker 1: audience about and especially a very large, very vocal audience.

552
00:29:07,840 --> 00:29:11,000
Speaker 1: I can understand his frustration. Um and and you know

553
00:29:11,080 --> 00:29:15,040
Speaker 1: so so in everything was really ramping up that year.

554
00:29:15,080 --> 00:29:18,680
Speaker 1: The three sixty version of Minecraft was more played than

555
00:29:18,800 --> 00:29:21,680
Speaker 1: Call of Duty Modern Warfare. Yeah, it hit Xbox Live

556
00:29:21,760 --> 00:29:24,840
Speaker 1: Arcade and then it exploded there. And there are some

557
00:29:25,000 --> 00:29:30,080
Speaker 1: great shows that are Minecraft oriented, uh Chad from this

558
00:29:30,160 --> 00:29:33,960
Speaker 1: Weekend Tech has a YouTube series about Minecraft. The Rooster

559
00:29:34,040 --> 00:29:37,320
Speaker 1: Teeth guys have let's plays and let's build set in

560
00:29:37,400 --> 00:29:41,720
Speaker 1: Minecraft that are entertaining and hilarious. In fact, they even

561
00:29:43,040 --> 00:29:47,240
Speaker 1: Gavin Free of Rooster Teeth created the most ridiculous thing

562
00:29:47,600 --> 00:29:55,520
Speaker 1: he created. Oh Gavin, So he created a basic structure

563
00:29:55,640 --> 00:29:58,880
Speaker 1: that was an obsidian block, and then four gold blocks.

564
00:29:59,240 --> 00:30:01,280
Speaker 1: He mined all this gold. And you know, when you

565
00:30:01,320 --> 00:30:03,280
Speaker 1: mind gold, you didn't have to refine it, and you

566
00:30:03,320 --> 00:30:06,600
Speaker 1: get gold bars. Then if you have enough gold bars

567
00:30:06,680 --> 00:30:09,880
Speaker 1: can make a gold block. He mined and refined all

568
00:30:09,920 --> 00:30:12,720
Speaker 1: this gold. They were they wanted the gold for another reason.

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00:30:12,720 --> 00:30:15,440
Speaker 1: They wanted to use the gold to create circuits to

570
00:30:15,520 --> 00:30:19,320
Speaker 1: power a mine cart track. They were they were trying

571
00:30:19,360 --> 00:30:22,080
Speaker 1: to get an achievement in the Xbox version of the game,

572
00:30:22,120 --> 00:30:24,520
Speaker 1: where you have to travel a certain distance on a

573
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Speaker 1: on a rail car and then you unlock the achievement,

574
00:30:27,800 --> 00:30:30,480
Speaker 1: which meant they needed gold. But Gavin took all the

575
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Speaker 1: gold and made gold blocks out of it instead of

576
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Speaker 1: using it to actually make these power right, so he's

577
00:30:36,560 --> 00:30:38,360
Speaker 1: being a bit of a troll, which is kind of

578
00:30:38,360 --> 00:30:41,760
Speaker 1: what Gavin does. And uh, he then created the subsidium.

579
00:30:41,760 --> 00:30:44,280
Speaker 1: They put an obsidium block down and then uh four

580
00:30:44,360 --> 00:30:48,360
Speaker 1: gold blocks and called it the Tower of Pimps. That

581
00:30:48,480 --> 00:30:50,440
Speaker 1: is that became its name, the Tower of Pimps, and

582
00:30:50,480 --> 00:30:52,440
Speaker 1: then now has become a thing in the Rooster Teeth

583
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Speaker 1: games where they compete and whoever wins gets the Tower

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Speaker 1: of Pimps. That weekend. They've actually got a three D

585
00:30:58,680 --> 00:31:01,320
Speaker 1: printed version of the Tower Pimps that goes from one

586
00:31:01,360 --> 00:31:04,760
Speaker 1: person's desk to another as they battle over it. Well,

587
00:31:05,800 --> 00:31:09,600
Speaker 1: it turns out that the Notch must watch Rooster Teeth.

588
00:31:09,600 --> 00:31:13,520
Speaker 1: The people must watch it because um, they incorporated the

589
00:31:13,520 --> 00:31:16,520
Speaker 1: Tower of Pimps in a secret part of the tutorial

590
00:31:16,600 --> 00:31:20,160
Speaker 1: world of the Xbox three sixt version of Minecraft. If

591
00:31:20,200 --> 00:31:22,400
Speaker 1: you play the tutorial world and you know where to look,

592
00:31:22,840 --> 00:31:26,440
Speaker 1: you can find a pre built tower of pimps there. So,

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00:31:26,520 --> 00:31:28,680
Speaker 1: I mean, this is this is again kind of showing

594
00:31:28,720 --> 00:31:32,960
Speaker 1: how they value that community that has grown up around

595
00:31:33,040 --> 00:31:36,600
Speaker 1: the game, where people who make something that resonates with

596
00:31:36,640 --> 00:31:39,840
Speaker 1: an audience, they acknowledge that it's not one of those

597
00:31:39,880 --> 00:31:42,160
Speaker 1: games where you put it out there and then you

598
00:31:42,200 --> 00:31:45,360
Speaker 1: just you divorce yourself entirely from it and then you

599
00:31:45,400 --> 00:31:49,200
Speaker 1: go do something else. Yeah, the company Muang was big

600
00:31:49,320 --> 00:31:53,960
Speaker 1: enough as they were included in this total patentroll lawsuit

601
00:31:54,040 --> 00:31:58,960
Speaker 1: along with like Electronic Arts and Square Enix um over

602
00:31:59,160 --> 00:32:03,080
Speaker 1: over paid Android usage. Yeah, some sort of it was

603
00:32:03,120 --> 00:32:06,680
Speaker 1: either in game payments or something along those lines. Yeah.

604
00:32:06,800 --> 00:32:08,280
Speaker 1: But but I mean, you know that's that's a pretty

605
00:32:08,360 --> 00:32:10,840
Speaker 1: huge sign of of you've made it. You know you've

606
00:32:10,880 --> 00:32:12,480
Speaker 1: made it when you get sued, when you get targeted.

607
00:32:13,760 --> 00:32:16,520
Speaker 1: I hope I never made it. Not. Also that year

608
00:32:16,760 --> 00:32:19,640
Speaker 1: was presented with a special award from the British Academy

609
00:32:19,680 --> 00:32:24,040
Speaker 1: of Film and Television Arts Video Game Segment uh in uh.

610
00:32:24,080 --> 00:32:27,240
Speaker 1: He also during this time was also working on a

611
00:32:27,280 --> 00:32:30,360
Speaker 1: new game called Zero Times Tend to the Power of

612
00:32:30,440 --> 00:32:33,120
Speaker 1: C which was supposed to be that the Zero Times

613
00:32:33,120 --> 00:32:34,360
Speaker 1: Tend to the Power of C was supposed to be

614
00:32:34,400 --> 00:32:38,360
Speaker 1: a coding error within the confines of this game that

615
00:32:38,480 --> 00:32:41,640
Speaker 1: causes the entire human race to go into cry genic sleep,

616
00:32:41,960 --> 00:32:44,840
Speaker 1: and when they wake up, it's eons later, and the

617
00:32:44,960 --> 00:32:47,440
Speaker 1: universe has changed as a result because so much time

618
00:32:47,480 --> 00:32:50,719
Speaker 1: has passed, and it's another it's another sandbox kind of game,

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00:32:50,840 --> 00:32:54,920
Speaker 1: you're it's it's also very sixteen bitten blocky. Exploration was

620
00:32:55,000 --> 00:32:59,680
Speaker 1: a big theme, as is trading, but as of August

621
00:32:59,680 --> 00:33:03,480
Speaker 1: of this year, um it is no longer in development.

622
00:33:03,840 --> 00:33:08,040
Speaker 1: Notch said that he had uh had stopped developing the

623
00:33:08,040 --> 00:33:10,640
Speaker 1: game and did not have any aspirations for it to continue.

624
00:33:10,760 --> 00:33:13,880
Speaker 1: It's actually been taken over though, by a fan group

625
00:33:13,960 --> 00:33:17,840
Speaker 1: that calls themselves Projects trillic And, and he's basically given

626
00:33:18,080 --> 00:33:21,200
Speaker 1: them his blessing. Yeah, they're from what I understand, they're

627
00:33:21,200 --> 00:33:23,880
Speaker 1: trying to create essentially the game he was building, but

628
00:33:23,960 --> 00:33:27,160
Speaker 1: they're not necessarily using the code that he had developed,

629
00:33:27,400 --> 00:33:29,880
Speaker 1: so they're they're they've got the same end goal, but

630
00:33:29,920 --> 00:33:33,480
Speaker 1: they're taking their own pathway to get there. Meanwhile, UH

631
00:33:33,880 --> 00:33:38,200
Speaker 1: Minecraft kept on keeping on. In February eleven, two thousand twelve,

632
00:33:38,520 --> 00:33:40,920
Speaker 1: it launched on a new platform, one that we just

633
00:33:41,040 --> 00:33:43,800
Speaker 1: got access to because I think we think we have

634
00:33:43,840 --> 00:33:45,160
Speaker 1: access to this. I think this is one of the

635
00:33:45,200 --> 00:33:51,240
Speaker 1: things that's sitting on your desk, the Raspberry Pie twelve.

636
00:33:51,280 --> 00:33:54,280
Speaker 1: It came to the Raspberry Pie the Minecraft Pie addition,

637
00:33:54,720 --> 00:33:59,000
Speaker 1: and it's available for free download on the MoU Yang's blog.

638
00:33:59,320 --> 00:34:01,280
Speaker 1: We should fire that thing up. Yeah, I was just saying, like,

639
00:34:01,360 --> 00:34:04,400
Speaker 1: let's fire up the Raspberry Pie download that because it's

640
00:34:04,520 --> 00:34:08,120
Speaker 1: meant to be an educational tool for novice programmers. It's

641
00:34:08,160 --> 00:34:10,799
Speaker 1: actually it's not necessarily meant just for entertainment, but to

642
00:34:10,880 --> 00:34:13,200
Speaker 1: learn how to program and using that as sort of

643
00:34:13,239 --> 00:34:15,840
Speaker 1: another platform on programming. All right, Well, it's Java based,

644
00:34:15,920 --> 00:34:18,279
Speaker 1: and I've heard that actually a lot of a lot

645
00:34:18,280 --> 00:34:21,600
Speaker 1: of kids are getting into programming through Minecraft onto themselves,

646
00:34:21,840 --> 00:34:26,200
Speaker 1: and not only just uh programming, but also circuitry, because

647
00:34:26,239 --> 00:34:29,360
Speaker 1: you can build circuits within the world of Minecraft, and

648
00:34:29,400 --> 00:34:32,319
Speaker 1: you can even build the you know, you can think

649
00:34:32,320 --> 00:34:35,799
Speaker 1: of them as macro processors, not micro processors, because they

650
00:34:36,280 --> 00:34:39,880
Speaker 1: span entire fields within the game of Minecraft. But you

651
00:34:39,880 --> 00:34:43,480
Speaker 1: could build a working calculator in Minecraft using all the

652
00:34:43,520 --> 00:34:47,799
Speaker 1: basic electronic components that you can create or mine in

653
00:34:47,840 --> 00:34:50,320
Speaker 1: the game, which you know, I've seen some of the

654
00:34:50,400 --> 00:34:51,880
Speaker 1: videos of people who have done this, where you know,

655
00:34:51,920 --> 00:34:55,080
Speaker 1: you hit a switch and it creates a very simple

656
00:34:55,080 --> 00:35:00,120
Speaker 1: computer algorithm that follows very basic rules. But it's of

657
00:35:00,160 --> 00:35:03,120
Speaker 1: an equation for you or you know whatever that yeah, whatever,

658
00:35:03,239 --> 00:35:06,440
Speaker 1: whatever it's designed to do. Yeah, and piece of music

659
00:35:06,560 --> 00:35:08,879
Speaker 1: or yeah, yeah, I've seen those two where they set

660
00:35:08,960 --> 00:35:11,960
Speaker 1: up the various music blocks and set up the circuit

661
00:35:12,000 --> 00:35:14,760
Speaker 1: so that it plays a specific tune. It's a level

662
00:35:14,800 --> 00:35:18,359
Speaker 1: of understanding of this game that is really surprising to me.

663
00:35:18,480 --> 00:35:20,760
Speaker 1: But it also means that people are learning the basics

664
00:35:20,760 --> 00:35:24,400
Speaker 1: of electronics as well as the basics of programming, uh,

665
00:35:24,520 --> 00:35:27,200
Speaker 1: through this one game and it and it can inspire

666
00:35:27,239 --> 00:35:29,080
Speaker 1: people in other ways to we'll talk about that in

667
00:35:29,120 --> 00:35:32,280
Speaker 1: a second. One of the interesting things that I read,

668
00:35:32,440 --> 00:35:34,400
Speaker 1: and I know you read the same piece, it was

669
00:35:34,440 --> 00:35:36,360
Speaker 1: a there was a piece in the New Yorker about

670
00:35:36,880 --> 00:35:40,000
Speaker 1: Notch that was quite good. Yeah, that was great. I

671
00:35:40,120 --> 00:35:42,720
Speaker 1: thought I had it written down. Uh. It was written

672
00:35:42,719 --> 00:35:46,439
Speaker 1: by Simon Parkin. It was published in April. I'll see

673
00:35:46,440 --> 00:35:48,120
Speaker 1: if we can remember to link it on social. Yeah,

674
00:35:48,120 --> 00:35:50,920
Speaker 1: it's it's an excellent article. And in that Notch is

675
00:35:50,960 --> 00:35:53,279
Speaker 1: quoted as saying, I don't want to feel like I'm

676
00:35:53,280 --> 00:35:56,000
Speaker 1: in charge or anything. Of course, it doesn't really work

677
00:35:56,040 --> 00:35:58,360
Speaker 1: that way, because we all know I'm the founder. But

678
00:35:58,400 --> 00:36:00,200
Speaker 1: I try to have a studio where people go to

679
00:36:00,280 --> 00:36:03,080
Speaker 1: make games for the fun of it, not just because

680
00:36:03,080 --> 00:36:05,600
Speaker 1: some investor has said we have to make money. And

681
00:36:05,640 --> 00:36:08,719
Speaker 1: that kind of boils down to his basic philosophy. And

682
00:36:08,840 --> 00:36:12,040
Speaker 1: it's very similar to sid Meyer, this idea that I

683
00:36:12,120 --> 00:36:14,279
Speaker 1: love to build things. I love to make games. I

684
00:36:14,360 --> 00:36:16,879
Speaker 1: love to make things that are fun to play, and

685
00:36:16,920 --> 00:36:20,319
Speaker 1: that's my motivation. It's a huge games games where you

686
00:36:20,360 --> 00:36:23,680
Speaker 1: get to decide what the story is, what your motivations are. Yeah. Yeah,

687
00:36:24,000 --> 00:36:27,880
Speaker 1: these are games where there's not necessarily a pathway that

688
00:36:28,000 --> 00:36:30,080
Speaker 1: you have to follow. You can take one of a

689
00:36:30,160 --> 00:36:34,040
Speaker 1: billion pathways. Now, Minecraft does have kind of an endgame.

690
00:36:34,600 --> 00:36:36,800
Speaker 1: I had mentioned it before that there are three basic

691
00:36:36,840 --> 00:36:39,960
Speaker 1: worlds in in the in the original version of Minecraft.

692
00:36:40,040 --> 00:36:41,640
Speaker 1: Keep in mind there are mods out there that have

693
00:36:41,760 --> 00:36:45,520
Speaker 1: all sorts of worlds, but the three basic worlds are

694
00:36:45,520 --> 00:36:47,879
Speaker 1: the overworld, which is where you spend your time when

695
00:36:47,880 --> 00:36:50,960
Speaker 1: you first start off. Then there's a a kind of

696
00:36:51,600 --> 00:36:55,279
Speaker 1: Hades like region called the Nether where everything is on

697
00:36:55,320 --> 00:36:58,160
Speaker 1: fire and trying to kill you. Uh, that's only a

698
00:36:58,200 --> 00:37:01,400
Speaker 1: slight exaggeration. Uh, there are certain things that are not

699
00:37:01,440 --> 00:37:03,239
Speaker 1: on fire, and there are a couple of critters that

700
00:37:03,280 --> 00:37:05,640
Speaker 1: aren't actively trying to kill you. But there everything else

701
00:37:05,760 --> 00:37:08,520
Speaker 1: is like how I feel about our new office environment.

702
00:37:08,600 --> 00:37:11,200
Speaker 1: Yeah kind of. Yeah, well, I certainly think Robert's out

703
00:37:11,239 --> 00:37:14,040
Speaker 1: to kill me. He's already set up his his second

704
00:37:14,120 --> 00:37:16,200
Speaker 1: secondary monitor to block me off. I don't know if

705
00:37:16,239 --> 00:37:18,960
Speaker 1: you've noticed that. I'm sure it's not personal. No, it's

706
00:37:18,960 --> 00:37:22,400
Speaker 1: just so he has a semi cubicle through himself. Uh,

707
00:37:22,480 --> 00:37:25,680
Speaker 1: I love you, Robert anyway. So that you know, there's

708
00:37:25,680 --> 00:37:27,920
Speaker 1: the overworld, the nether and then there's the End that

709
00:37:27,960 --> 00:37:31,239
Speaker 1: I mentioned before. That's where Enderman come from. Enderman are

710
00:37:31,239 --> 00:37:33,759
Speaker 1: these kind of creepy characters that are three blocks tall.

711
00:37:33,760 --> 00:37:39,000
Speaker 1: They're the the tallest regular characters you would encounter in Minecraft. Uh.

712
00:37:39,040 --> 00:37:42,399
Speaker 1: They also are not aggressive unless you look at them.

713
00:37:42,440 --> 00:37:45,960
Speaker 1: If you look at them and you look above their legs,

714
00:37:46,040 --> 00:37:49,440
Speaker 1: essentially they become aggressive and we'll try to kill you.

715
00:37:49,480 --> 00:37:52,600
Speaker 1: They can also teleport, so they're tricky critters to defeat.

716
00:37:53,080 --> 00:37:55,160
Speaker 1: But if you go to the end, which is where

717
00:37:55,160 --> 00:37:59,920
Speaker 1: the Injerman supposedly come from, you can encounter the Ender Dragon.

718
00:38:00,640 --> 00:38:04,640
Speaker 1: The Indo Dragon is enormous and deadly and probably requires

719
00:38:04,760 --> 00:38:08,480
Speaker 1: multiple people ganging up on it at once using enchanted weapons.

720
00:38:08,760 --> 00:38:11,160
Speaker 1: These are all things that were added into Minecraft over

721
00:38:11,200 --> 00:38:13,680
Speaker 1: the course of the game. Obviously, when it first started,

722
00:38:13,719 --> 00:38:16,760
Speaker 1: you didn't have ways of enchanting items and you didn't

723
00:38:16,800 --> 00:38:19,799
Speaker 1: have dragons flying around. But if you defeat it, then

724
00:38:19,800 --> 00:38:23,440
Speaker 1: you get a little um, you get a story that

725
00:38:23,600 --> 00:38:27,239
Speaker 1: unfolds that's supposedly very beautiful. I have not read this

726
00:38:27,400 --> 00:38:30,000
Speaker 1: story because I have not defeated the Indo Dragon, and

727
00:38:30,000 --> 00:38:32,920
Speaker 1: I refuse to watch a video and see it for

728
00:38:33,000 --> 00:38:36,560
Speaker 1: myself until I have done it. So I'm waiting until

729
00:38:36,600 --> 00:38:38,600
Speaker 1: I get to a point where I feel like, all right,

730
00:38:39,320 --> 00:38:41,200
Speaker 1: let's give this a shot and let me get like

731
00:38:41,280 --> 00:38:43,560
Speaker 1: at least three or four other people who want to

732
00:38:43,719 --> 00:38:48,680
Speaker 1: throw their lives away and and take on the Indo Dragon. So, uh,

733
00:38:48,719 --> 00:38:51,080
Speaker 1: there is an end game in the game in that sense,

734
00:38:51,160 --> 00:38:53,080
Speaker 1: but you never have to play it that way if

735
00:38:53,080 --> 00:38:55,480
Speaker 1: you don't want to. There's no reason for you to

736
00:38:55,480 --> 00:38:58,000
Speaker 1: go after that goal if it doesn't interest you. Um.

737
00:38:58,160 --> 00:39:03,240
Speaker 1: And we've seen some interesting uses of Minecraft in ways

738
00:39:03,280 --> 00:39:06,080
Speaker 1: other than just as a game. Right, It's kind of

739
00:39:06,120 --> 00:39:09,719
Speaker 1: a semi official educational tool. It is being taught in schools. Yeah, yeah,

740
00:39:09,719 --> 00:39:12,840
Speaker 1: it's being used as a tool in various applications. So

741
00:39:12,920 --> 00:39:15,400
Speaker 1: you've got some where it's like city planning, you know,

742
00:39:15,440 --> 00:39:17,480
Speaker 1: the idea of how do you how do you lay

743
00:39:17,480 --> 00:39:19,520
Speaker 1: out a city so that it makes sense? And they

744
00:39:19,600 --> 00:39:22,400
Speaker 1: use Minecraft as the basic building blocks for that. Literally.

745
00:39:23,000 --> 00:39:25,439
Speaker 1: There are other ones where it's just teaching teamwork, where

746
00:39:25,440 --> 00:39:29,160
Speaker 1: you throw a group of students in a newly developed

747
00:39:29,280 --> 00:39:32,160
Speaker 1: world and say, all right, here are the basic thing

748
00:39:32,280 --> 00:39:34,000
Speaker 1: or what what basic things do you need to do

749
00:39:34,480 --> 00:39:38,080
Speaker 1: in order to survive? What? How do you prioritize those steps?

750
00:39:38,280 --> 00:39:40,759
Speaker 1: How do you delegate who does what? How do you

751
00:39:40,760 --> 00:39:44,160
Speaker 1: actually achieve your goals? And so that's another way, or

752
00:39:44,200 --> 00:39:46,440
Speaker 1: even just as a motivator. I read about it being

753
00:39:46,600 --> 00:39:49,200
Speaker 1: used in a in a in a foreign language class

754
00:39:49,480 --> 00:39:51,520
Speaker 1: and that you know, the student that the teachers like

755
00:39:51,880 --> 00:39:53,920
Speaker 1: find you guys can play Minecraft, but you have to

756
00:39:53,920 --> 00:39:56,879
Speaker 1: speak entirely in this language that you're learning in order

757
00:39:57,400 --> 00:40:00,839
Speaker 1: that's it's the only way you can communicate, communicate via

758
00:40:01,000 --> 00:40:02,920
Speaker 1: text or you can talk to each other, but you

759
00:40:03,000 --> 00:40:05,480
Speaker 1: have to speak and write in this other language that

760
00:40:05,520 --> 00:40:08,640
Speaker 1: you're learning UM, which is great because it turned you

761
00:40:08,640 --> 00:40:11,120
Speaker 1: into this. You know, it's an immersive environment where you

762
00:40:11,160 --> 00:40:15,440
Speaker 1: have to communicate in order together. So that was I

763
00:40:15,480 --> 00:40:18,720
Speaker 1: thought a very clever way of using Minecraft. Uh. There

764
00:40:18,960 --> 00:40:22,600
Speaker 1: is an organization called Teacher Gaming which runs Minecraft e

765
00:40:22,680 --> 00:40:24,920
Speaker 1: d U, which is a tool designed to help teachers

766
00:40:24,920 --> 00:40:28,840
Speaker 1: incorporate Minecraft into lesson plans. UM actually has a special

767
00:40:28,920 --> 00:40:31,560
Speaker 1: build of Minecraft where you can sign in as a

768
00:40:31,560 --> 00:40:36,080
Speaker 1: student or a teacher and can create specific goal oriented

769
00:40:36,120 --> 00:40:41,880
Speaker 1: tasks UM and encourage things like communication and teamwork. I've

770
00:40:41,920 --> 00:40:45,200
Speaker 1: read about a lot of gamer parents who have played

771
00:40:45,239 --> 00:40:47,440
Speaker 1: with their children are set up servers for their children

772
00:40:47,440 --> 00:40:50,520
Speaker 1: so they can play in a safe environment and um.

773
00:40:50,560 --> 00:40:53,439
Speaker 1: Another example of that is Bernie Burns of Rooster Teeth,

774
00:40:53,440 --> 00:40:55,680
Speaker 1: who talks about playing it with the son and then

775
00:40:55,760 --> 00:40:59,080
Speaker 1: that's in fact how he got introduced to Minecraft and uh,

776
00:40:59,120 --> 00:41:03,319
Speaker 1: and now it's a big part of what Rooster Teeth does. Yeah,

777
00:41:03,600 --> 00:41:05,520
Speaker 1: so uh. And of course he was not the only

778
00:41:05,520 --> 00:41:07,920
Speaker 1: person in the company to have played the game. Gavin

779
00:41:07,960 --> 00:41:10,600
Speaker 1: also had an unfair advantage in those early games because

780
00:41:10,640 --> 00:41:12,840
Speaker 1: he knew what was going on, whereas everybody else was like,

781
00:41:13,239 --> 00:41:16,920
Speaker 1: how do I make an axe? So the car. What

782
00:41:16,960 --> 00:41:19,520
Speaker 1: does Gavin do with that knowledge? He builds the Tower

783
00:41:19,520 --> 00:41:23,080
Speaker 1: of Pimps. Yeah, so, um, you know, knowledge is power people,

784
00:41:23,239 --> 00:41:26,319
Speaker 1: then with great power comes great something or other. Yeah.

785
00:41:26,520 --> 00:41:28,640
Speaker 1: That there was a frolicking motion by the way that

786
00:41:28,640 --> 00:41:32,120
Speaker 1: that I really felt got lost in. It was Lauren

787
00:41:32,200 --> 00:41:38,040
Speaker 1: doing the frolicking, but not Jonathan. I do not frolic cavort.

788
00:41:39,320 --> 00:41:42,279
Speaker 1: I'm not a frolicker. I'm a covorder. Um. And so

789
00:41:42,360 --> 00:41:44,759
Speaker 1: there are other interesting mods. I saw a mod where

790
00:41:44,760 --> 00:41:46,799
Speaker 1: you can build and maybe this isn't even a mod,

791
00:41:46,840 --> 00:41:48,719
Speaker 1: but I don't play the PC version, so this is

792
00:41:48,760 --> 00:41:51,160
Speaker 1: this is brand new to me. But you could build

793
00:41:51,239 --> 00:41:57,319
Speaker 1: a rocket and then actually go from the world of

794
00:41:57,640 --> 00:42:02,359
Speaker 1: Minecraft to the Moon, which I just blew my mind.

795
00:42:02,400 --> 00:42:04,359
Speaker 1: I was like, this is incredible, and that it also

796
00:42:04,440 --> 00:42:08,399
Speaker 1: involved a lot of the materials that occur in the

797
00:42:08,480 --> 00:42:11,279
Speaker 1: PC version but not in the Xbox version. So I

798
00:42:11,280 --> 00:42:12,840
Speaker 1: saw it. I was like, well, there's no way for

799
00:42:12,840 --> 00:42:14,719
Speaker 1: me to do this right now. I could always go

800
00:42:14,760 --> 00:42:17,160
Speaker 1: out and buy the PC version, but then that means

801
00:42:17,200 --> 00:42:19,440
Speaker 1: I have to learn. There was there's a mod that

802
00:42:19,480 --> 00:42:22,880
Speaker 1: you guys talked about in the original episode that was

803
00:42:22,960 --> 00:42:25,120
Speaker 1: of the Starship Enterprise. Yeah, I was a guy who

804
00:42:25,160 --> 00:42:28,880
Speaker 1: had who had gone essentially into creative mode and wanted

805
00:42:28,920 --> 00:42:32,399
Speaker 1: to make a to scale one to one version of

806
00:42:32,440 --> 00:42:34,400
Speaker 1: the enterprise like that you can get in and like

807
00:42:34,440 --> 00:42:37,960
Speaker 1: crawl around and being a Jeffreys tube and you could

808
00:42:38,040 --> 00:42:40,400
Speaker 1: you could explore the various text And this was the uh,

809
00:42:40,800 --> 00:42:43,200
Speaker 1: the n c C seventeen o one, so not the

810
00:42:43,760 --> 00:42:47,360
Speaker 1: not the not the later enterprises. We're talking original series

811
00:42:48,239 --> 00:42:54,160
Speaker 1: enterprise and an update on that story. Over over that enterprise,

812
00:42:54,200 --> 00:42:56,920
Speaker 1: mod Millang got hit with a season desist from Universal

813
00:42:56,960 --> 00:43:01,600
Speaker 1: Studios to to which not was Paramount Picture sexually. Uh,

814
00:43:01,640 --> 00:43:04,120
Speaker 1: I read Universal videos that I'm willing to go with

815
00:43:04,120 --> 00:43:07,319
Speaker 1: either UM and it would to which Notch replied, like,

816
00:43:07,400 --> 00:43:09,680
Speaker 1: it's it's like sending a letter to Adobe because someone

817
00:43:09,800 --> 00:43:12,719
Speaker 1: drew a copyrighted image and photoshop right. He's like, like,

818
00:43:12,960 --> 00:43:15,839
Speaker 1: I built the tool, but I didn't build that. Yeah.

819
00:43:15,920 --> 00:43:19,480
Speaker 1: And put Putt, which is actually a brand name of

820
00:43:19,480 --> 00:43:25,400
Speaker 1: of UM, also has sent a season desist and further misunderstanding,

821
00:43:25,960 --> 00:43:28,080
Speaker 1: it's the same, you know, the same sort of thing

822
00:43:28,080 --> 00:43:31,600
Speaker 1: as Safe Harbor with sites like YouTube. Right where YouTube

823
00:43:31,880 --> 00:43:36,800
Speaker 1: is offering people the platform to you can upload videos,

824
00:43:37,000 --> 00:43:40,280
Speaker 1: YouTube itself is not responsible for the material inside those videos.

825
00:43:40,280 --> 00:43:44,560
Speaker 1: It does have a responsibility to act when those videos

826
00:43:44,680 --> 00:43:48,399
Speaker 1: violate intellectual property, But how do you do that when

827
00:43:48,440 --> 00:43:51,319
Speaker 1: someone has just built the enterprise on a server that

828
00:43:51,400 --> 00:43:54,000
Speaker 1: they own. You know, essentially you have to serve that

829
00:43:54,040 --> 00:43:56,400
Speaker 1: to that season desists to the person that built it,

830
00:43:56,920 --> 00:44:00,600
Speaker 1: not to the company that provided the tools. But yeah,

831
00:44:00,600 --> 00:44:04,080
Speaker 1: we we've seen lots of other interesting builds besides that.

832
00:44:04,640 --> 00:44:09,800
Speaker 1: And I talked about how these mods are, uh pretty popular.

833
00:44:09,920 --> 00:44:12,080
Speaker 1: There are a lot of different skins that you can

834
00:44:12,120 --> 00:44:16,200
Speaker 1: get for um for Minecraft, not just for your character.

835
00:44:16,400 --> 00:44:19,440
Speaker 1: You can put give your character a different skin, some

836
00:44:19,480 --> 00:44:21,480
Speaker 1: of which are based upon other popular games. They have

837
00:44:21,520 --> 00:44:24,560
Speaker 1: Halo skins, so if you want a little blocky master chief,

838
00:44:24,600 --> 00:44:26,759
Speaker 1: you can make one. Although although Nottch did write a

839
00:44:26,840 --> 00:44:29,359
Speaker 1: really nice I I linked this on Twitter today because

840
00:44:29,360 --> 00:44:31,520
Speaker 1: I was just so impressed with it, a really nice

841
00:44:31,560 --> 00:44:35,480
Speaker 1: post about how Minecraft is genderless, um that that your

842
00:44:35,640 --> 00:44:38,640
Speaker 1: natural avatar. You know, at some point started being called

843
00:44:38,680 --> 00:44:41,120
Speaker 1: the Minecraft guy because he's kind of blocking and dude

844
00:44:41,280 --> 00:44:44,759
Speaker 1: ish and and that and that's yeah. Well, someone I

845
00:44:44,800 --> 00:44:47,759
Speaker 1: think someone asked not at some point, oh what's the

846
00:44:47,800 --> 00:44:50,400
Speaker 1: dude's name? And he was like Steve, and I think

847
00:44:50,440 --> 00:44:52,680
Speaker 1: that's how that one got started. Um. But but that

848
00:44:53,360 --> 00:44:55,960
Speaker 1: you know, all all the animals and minecraft are genderless.

849
00:44:56,000 --> 00:44:58,840
Speaker 1: They can all make little babies with any other animal

850
00:44:59,080 --> 00:45:03,200
Speaker 1: that if you get it, and babies were really new

851
00:45:03,239 --> 00:45:05,640
Speaker 1: for the Xbox three sixty not that new now, but

852
00:45:05,719 --> 00:45:08,279
Speaker 1: I remember when it uh like if you you can

853
00:45:08,320 --> 00:45:12,799
Speaker 1: make animals be receptive to the mood of love by

854
00:45:12,840 --> 00:45:15,759
Speaker 1: giving them food, and um, so you can tame them

855
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Speaker 1: sort of. You can. You can lead them into like

856
00:45:17,560 --> 00:45:19,960
Speaker 1: a fenced area and then and then fence them in

857
00:45:20,600 --> 00:45:22,440
Speaker 1: and if you feed them, they're they're like they have

858
00:45:22,520 --> 00:45:24,640
Speaker 1: little hearts appear over their head. And as long as

859
00:45:24,680 --> 00:45:27,000
Speaker 1: you have two of that kind of animal, you're good

860
00:45:27,000 --> 00:45:30,920
Speaker 1: to go. There's gonna be babies popping up soon. Um.

861
00:45:30,960 --> 00:45:33,960
Speaker 1: So yeah, there's no like, there's no fifty fifty chance

862
00:45:34,000 --> 00:45:36,200
Speaker 1: that you accidentally put two of the same gender because

863
00:45:36,200 --> 00:45:40,359
Speaker 1: there they're this non gender gender and and that you're

864
00:45:40,480 --> 00:45:43,160
Speaker 1: in you know, and that also your avatar is technically

865
00:45:43,320 --> 00:45:46,399
Speaker 1: non gendered. Yeah, and so so you know, skins are great,

866
00:45:46,480 --> 00:45:49,120
Speaker 1: but right well, and they also have skins that overlay

867
00:45:49,160 --> 00:45:51,759
Speaker 1: the entire world, not just your character. So you get

868
00:45:51,800 --> 00:45:54,480
Speaker 1: there's like one specifically for the Xbox three sixty where

869
00:45:54,520 --> 00:45:59,520
Speaker 1: you can uh do a mass effect texture overlay, so

870
00:45:59,560 --> 00:46:03,120
Speaker 1: suddenly the world looks like, you know, a mass effect world,

871
00:46:03,160 --> 00:46:05,480
Speaker 1: and all the all the structures look different, all the

872
00:46:05,520 --> 00:46:09,160
Speaker 1: materials look different. You have to relearn what everything is actually.

873
00:46:09,200 --> 00:46:11,640
Speaker 1: I're like, what is this? Oh, that's what Iron looks

874
00:46:11,719 --> 00:46:14,840
Speaker 1: like now. Um. They also have one recently added to

875
00:46:14,880 --> 00:46:17,960
Speaker 1: the three sixty that is more of a plastic look,

876
00:46:18,040 --> 00:46:20,960
Speaker 1: so it looks kind of like the actual Lego Minecraft set.

877
00:46:21,560 --> 00:46:26,200
Speaker 1: It's very very plastic because there are textures on those blocks,

878
00:46:26,239 --> 00:46:28,960
Speaker 1: but they're very simple textures. So you can get these

879
00:46:28,960 --> 00:46:32,360
Speaker 1: different skins that make them look totally different. And that

880
00:46:32,920 --> 00:46:34,799
Speaker 1: Those are two examples that are actually found on the

881
00:46:34,880 --> 00:46:37,319
Speaker 1: Xbox three sixty one where you can purchase them, but

882
00:46:37,400 --> 00:46:41,479
Speaker 1: there are countless user generated skins and mods out there.

883
00:46:42,280 --> 00:46:46,279
Speaker 1: I Uh, I'm really impressed by the community that's grown

884
00:46:46,320 --> 00:46:48,640
Speaker 1: up around Minecraft, and it's a very young community too.

885
00:46:48,719 --> 00:46:51,080
Speaker 1: This is one of those games that really resonated with

886
00:46:51,120 --> 00:46:53,960
Speaker 1: a young audience where you know, kids who have that

887
00:46:54,120 --> 00:46:58,880
Speaker 1: natural curiosity to learn how things work and to build

888
00:46:58,960 --> 00:47:02,600
Speaker 1: things and to exp barament. This was a playground for them.

889
00:47:02,600 --> 00:47:06,160
Speaker 1: To use that kind of that kind of inclination, and

890
00:47:06,239 --> 00:47:08,880
Speaker 1: it really encouraged people to do that. So that's one

891
00:47:08,920 --> 00:47:10,440
Speaker 1: of the reasons why I think we've seen so much

892
00:47:10,440 --> 00:47:13,480
Speaker 1: incredible innovation. Yeah, yeah, you know, I think that all

893
00:47:13,520 --> 00:47:15,840
Speaker 1: goes back to just not being an awesome dude and

894
00:47:15,840 --> 00:47:18,799
Speaker 1: and wanting people to have that experience of being able

895
00:47:18,880 --> 00:47:21,439
Speaker 1: to create and play and make up their own minds

896
00:47:21,480 --> 00:47:25,440
Speaker 1: about what the game is agreed. And so I'm always

897
00:47:25,480 --> 00:47:29,520
Speaker 1: curious to see if this kind of philosophy will trickle

898
00:47:29,560 --> 00:47:32,040
Speaker 1: out to other developers. I think that there are some

899
00:47:32,080 --> 00:47:35,240
Speaker 1: developers that will want to try and capitalize it based

900
00:47:35,520 --> 00:47:37,120
Speaker 1: on the fact that it was such a huge success.

901
00:47:37,480 --> 00:47:39,840
Speaker 1: So in other words, from not just perspective, they be

902
00:47:39,880 --> 00:47:43,759
Speaker 1: coming at it from the wrong wrong motivation right there,

903
00:47:43,800 --> 00:47:45,279
Speaker 1: coming at it from the motivation of what can make

904
00:47:45,360 --> 00:47:47,239
Speaker 1: us a lot of money, not what is going to

905
00:47:47,280 --> 00:47:49,839
Speaker 1: make a compelling gaming experience. And it's it's certainly not

906
00:47:49,920 --> 00:47:52,280
Speaker 1: that this kind of world has never been seen before

907
00:47:52,280 --> 00:47:55,440
Speaker 1: in gaming. I mean, you've you've got lots of sandbox

908
00:47:56,239 --> 00:47:59,640
Speaker 1: kind of things out there, but but yeah, you know, this,

909
00:47:59,800 --> 00:48:02,200
Speaker 1: this it just resonated. It was one of those things

910
00:48:02,239 --> 00:48:07,719
Speaker 1: that that was uh just just complex enough to be compelling,

911
00:48:07,719 --> 00:48:10,640
Speaker 1: but not so complex as to be infuriating, and perhaps

912
00:48:10,719 --> 00:48:12,880
Speaker 1: just at the right time when I think there was

913
00:48:12,920 --> 00:48:15,840
Speaker 1: a high level of frustration with some of these really

914
00:48:16,440 --> 00:48:19,359
Speaker 1: big names in games that were coming out with these

915
00:48:19,480 --> 00:48:24,360
Speaker 1: laborious like like kind of overwrought, kind of overdone, or

916
00:48:24,480 --> 00:48:28,239
Speaker 1: or like the eighteenth sequel to a game, whether where

917
00:48:28,280 --> 00:48:31,239
Speaker 1: that just didn't seem to be any kind of innovation

918
00:48:31,360 --> 00:48:33,880
Speaker 1: or nothing new. It was a it was a new

919
00:48:34,360 --> 00:48:36,640
Speaker 1: maybe like a new skin on an old game, and

920
00:48:36,680 --> 00:48:40,239
Speaker 1: maybe a couple of new gaming elements, but this was

921
00:48:40,320 --> 00:48:43,040
Speaker 1: something that was very different from everything else that was

922
00:48:43,080 --> 00:48:45,879
Speaker 1: out there. So yeah, it's uh, you know, I will

923
00:48:45,960 --> 00:48:48,719
Speaker 1: not ever make another game that will resonate as much

924
00:48:48,719 --> 00:48:51,480
Speaker 1: as Minecraft. I don't know. I say, we let Notch

925
00:48:51,520 --> 00:48:54,120
Speaker 1: build whatever the heck he wants to build, and whether

926
00:48:54,200 --> 00:48:57,880
Speaker 1: or not it's as successful as Minecraft, it'll probably be awesome.

927
00:48:57,960 --> 00:49:01,320
Speaker 1: It doesn't Yeah, it doesn't matter, you know. He he deserves,

928
00:49:01,360 --> 00:49:04,799
Speaker 1: I think, the opportunity to play around and and not

929
00:49:05,000 --> 00:49:08,880
Speaker 1: be badgered about what the outcome is going to be,

930
00:49:08,880 --> 00:49:12,120
Speaker 1: because you know, he's already made an incredible game. Let's

931
00:49:12,200 --> 00:49:15,160
Speaker 1: give the guy some space to do what he does best,

932
00:49:15,800 --> 00:49:18,920
Speaker 1: you know, so hey, Notch, if you're listening, we're with you, buddy,

933
00:49:19,280 --> 00:49:22,280
Speaker 1: all right. So that kind of wraps up this discussion

934
00:49:22,280 --> 00:49:27,840
Speaker 1: about Minecraft. I hope that fulfills all the deep driving

935
00:49:27,880 --> 00:49:29,919
Speaker 1: needs of all of our Minecraft fans out there who

936
00:49:29,920 --> 00:49:32,200
Speaker 1: have been begging for us to do another Minecraft episode.

937
00:49:32,520 --> 00:49:35,360
Speaker 1: I always showed them the link to the old Minecraft episode.

938
00:49:35,400 --> 00:49:38,719
Speaker 1: He said that's not enough. So um, I hope this

939
00:49:38,800 --> 00:49:40,720
Speaker 1: is enough at least for the time being. We're gonna

940
00:49:40,719 --> 00:49:43,719
Speaker 1: talk about some other topics in future episodes, but hey,

941
00:49:43,760 --> 00:49:46,360
Speaker 1: we need your help. We need your help to decide

942
00:49:46,360 --> 00:49:48,520
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944
00:49:50,680 --> 00:49:54,719
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945
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