A Note to Kids Be sure to ask an adult for help with these activities when you need it Always put your safety first A Note to Adults Please review the instructions for the activities in this book before allowing children to do them Be sure to help them with any activities you do not think they can safely complete on their own Published in the United States of America by Cherry Lake Publishing Ann Arbor Michigan www cherrylakepublishing com Photo Credits Cover top left and page 1 top left Bloomicon Shutterstock com cover top right and page 1 top right Pabkov Shutterstock com cover bottom left and page 1 bottom left urbanbuzz Alamy Stock Photo cover bottom right and page 1 bottom right PA Images Alamy Stock Photo page 4 Rex Features via AP Image page 5 Press Association via AP Images page 7 iStockphoto com Bosca78 page 9 downloadsource fr tinyurl com jslfy52 CC BY 2 0 page 10 iStockphoto com Leontura page 13 True Images Alamy Stock Photo page 15 PRNewsFoto Microsoft Corp page 17 iStockphoto com monkeybusiness images page 19 Gianluca tinyurl com hchl7zv CC BY-SA 2 0 page 21 iStockphoto com oscity page 22 iStockphoto com PeopleImages page 25 PRNewsFoto Telltale Inc page 27 AP Photo Jeff Chiu File page 28 AP Photo Damian Dovarganes Copyright 2017 by Cherry Lake Publishing All rights reserved No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means without written permission from the publisher Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names Zeiger Jennifer author Title The making of Minecraft by Jennifer Zeiger Description Ann Arbor Michigan Cherry Lake Publishing 2017 Series Unofficial Guides Series 21st Century Skills Innovation Library Includes bibliographical references and index Identifiers LCCN 2016032419 ISBN 9781634721936 lib bdg ISBN 9781634722599 pdf ISBN 9781634723251 pbk ISBN 9781634723916 ebook Subjects LCSH Minecraft Game Juvenile literature Minecraft Game History Juvenile literature Classification LCC GV1469 35 M535 Z446 2017 DDC 794 8 dc23 LC record available at https lccn loc gov 2016032419 Cherry Lake Publishing would like to acknowledge the work of the Partnership for 21st Century Learning Please visit www p21 org for more information Printed in the United States of America Corporate Graphics
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(cid:53)(cid:46)(cid:47)(cid:38)(cid:38)(cid:41)(cid:35)(cid:41)(cid:33)(cid:44)(cid:0) GUIDeS Chapter 1 In the Beginning t oday Minecraft is everywhere Millions of people around the world play it on their computers smartphones tablets and game consoles It fuels countless online discussions and videos Fans of all ages dress up as the game’s characters for Halloween You can even walk into many stores and find Minecraft-inspired toys books and gad gets However the game wasn’t always famous In Toy makers have produced a huge variety of Minecraft-inspired toys 4
Markus Notch Persson holds up his Special Award which he won at the GAME British Academy Video Games Awards in 2012 the beginning it was a small project that one person worked on in his free time Markus Persson was born in Sweden in 1979 He’d later become known as Notch the creator of Minecraft But at first he was just Markus Markus loved playing with Lego toys He could make just about anything out of the colorful blocks He was limited only by his supply of Lego blocks and his own imagination This creativity found a new direction when Markus’s family got its first computer Markus spent hours at a time playing on it It wasn’t long before he 5
