Tag Archives: Minecraft

Minecraft

I’ve been playing Minecraft for a few years now, mostly in survival mode.  Because I’m a fan of LEGO, most of the time, I collect resources so I can build stuff… safe houses, castles, etc.  And the virtual creations do help with physical creations in LEGO, although I’m more limited in the physical.

2011-08-18_00.08.47A while back, I started a blog where I posted screen shots from the game and some of the creations, called The King’s Road.  The idea was, I’d adventure around, building garrisons or forts and connect them all back to a central castle by a road; written from the perspective of the adventurer doing the work.  And I’d post some of the wonderful terrains that the game generates, or the things I build along the way… Nothing too elaborate or flashy, since with almost every major upgrade, I tend to start all over again with a new world; I seem to never find the time to do something as elaborate as build a full scale Enterprise ship or Kings’ Landing.  I respect the people who can have the time and ability to coordinate such builds.

MineCon 2013

So after sharing photos from Tampa Bay ComicCon the other day, I figured I share another geek-achievements.  Back in 2013, a friend of mine and I decided to pick up tickets for MineCon.  Until then, we had been playing on a server he set up — occasionally play as a team with friends, or just alone when we had time… Survival of course.  I mainly focused on building, while he focused on exploring.

Anyway, I got talked into volunteering for MineCon, where basically I wore a shirt and did line/crowd control for a vendor booth.  Not grueling work, but it did teach me how unorganized the convention was.  Now keep in mind, I’ve volunteer/helped organize a few LEGO conventions in the past; although not nearly the attendance nor size of MineCon.  In the end, volunteering was more of an excuse to meet the people of Mojang up close and personal.  Some guys from the Mojang team were friendly enough & thanked everyone for their hard work, but they weren’t as popular as Notch or Jeb.

I even got to see Notch as he made his way through the crowd of volunteers.  He briefly stopped to talk to a few families, then was whisked away quickly.

So this plugin I’m using only displays 20 pictures in its free state.  If you want to see the rest of my Flickr album of pictures, it’s here: 2013.11 – MineCon