Minecraft Mania: Gaming in Numbers

HIMECRAFT MINECRAFT MANIA: GAMING IN NUMBERS NEVER HEARD OF MINECRAFT? YOU'RE MISSING OUT! MINECRAFT IS A SANDBOX INDIE GAME, ORIGINALLY CREATED BY SWEDISH PROGRAMMER, MARKUS "NOTCH" PERSSON The game allows players to focus on the CREATIVE aspects of various BUILDING and CONSTRUCTING tasks in a procedurally-generated, 3D WORLD OTHER ACTIVITIES IN THE GAME INCLUDE: EXPLORATION GATHERING RESOURCES Crafting CRAFTING COMBAT THE COMMERCIAL RELEASE OF GAMEPLAY HAS TWO PRINCIPAL MODES AND ONE GAMEPLAY MODE: SURVIVAL Requires players to acquire resources and maintain their health and hunger. CREATIVE Players have an unlimited supply of resources, the ability to fly, and no health or hunger HARDCORE Same as survival, differing only in difficulty Set to hardest setting I Respawning is disabled which forces players to delete their worlds upon death WONDER JUST HOW MANY MINECRAFT FANS THERE ARE? AS OF AUGUST 6, 2013 IN THE LAST 24 HOURS ALONE 11,624,991 people have PURCHASED Minecraft 14,124 people have PURCHASED Minecraft MINECRAFT AVERAGES 241,920,000 logins per month 1,000 logins per hour LOGINS 2,000,000,000 files downloaded by the launcher 11,000 skin downloads (in game) per second FILES DOWNLOAD AWARDS: PC GAMASUTRA GATTC The Art & Business of Making Games GAMER "Best Downloadable Game of 2010" "4TH BEST GAME "8TH BEST INDIE TO PLAY AT WORK" GAME OF THE YEAR" - Good Game - PC Gamer, July 2010 - Gamasutra "GAME OF THE YEAR" PC ROCK, PAPER GAMASUTRA SHOTGUN The Art & Business of Making Games PC GAMING SINCE 1873 GAMER "Most Innovative 2010" & "Best Singleplayer Indie 2010" - Indie DB "Grand Prize Award" & "Audience Award" - Independent Games Festival, 2011 GAME DEVELOPERS CHOICE AWARDS 2011 "Best Debut Game" "Best Downloadable Game" "Innovation Award" "Videogame Arts Prize"- GameCity In 2011, Minecraft was selected as 1 of the 80 games that would be displayed at the Smithsonian American Art Museum for the 2012 Art of Video Games exhibit in 2012, Minecraft XBLA was awarded a Golden Joystick Award in the "Best Downloadable Game" 2008 VIDEO GAME АШАRDS SPIKE category "Best Independent Game" - Spike Video Game Awards 2011 TIGA TM TIGA Games Industry Award - "Best Arcade Game" Representing the Games Industry THIS INFOGRAPHIC IS PRESENTED TO YOU BY MINEPICK.COM! sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minecraft http://www.minecrafthasrunoutofmemory.com/5-minecraft-facts/ http://www.minecrafthasrunoutofmemory.com/5-minecraft-facts/ http://www.gamefront.com/minecraft-by-the-numbers-2-billion-files-downloaded-from-the-launcher/ http://kotaku.com/5861731/minecrafts-statistics-will-crush-your-mind http://www.funtrivia.com/en/VideoGames/Minecraft-20467.html MinePick Image Sources: Its Time For A Break Stock Photo/freedigitalphotos.net