They can also encounter hostile creatures like spiders, skeletons, zombies and, of course, the Creepers. The different types of cubes that players encounter will include dirt, stone, ores, water, lava and trees, and they can often encounter animals like cows, pigs, and chickens. The world that you play in is made up of simplified, 8-bit-style blocks that, depending on the game play mode, involves building, arranging or breaking them to build virtually anything. As of 2015 the game has sold more than seventy million copies on multiple platforms, including PC, mobile devices and the XBox. The simple, open world video game was launched in beta in 2011 and before it had even been advertised, it had sold over one million copies based entirely on word of mouth.
If you haven’t heard of Minecraft, then you probably don’t have kids, know anyone who plays video games and I have doubts that you’re even reading this because you’ve probably never been on the Internet.