By now, many would be forgiven for thinking that the Minecraft candle will soon burn out. However, given that it's still one of the best-selling video games of 2022, despite it coming out in 2009, there is so much love left to give, from both the fans and the studio itself. The reason why it's so popular, even a decade or so later, is down to the sheer number of things that can be made. And as part of a challenge, two people decided to make something a little bit different.
As spotted by PCGamesN, YouTubers MattBatWings and Sloimay were given just 24 hours to come up with a Minecraft project that would wow judges. After going back and forth with a couple of ideas, they eventually settled on recreating MS Paint, the ubiquitous painting program that ships with copies of Windows. A video shows the two getting creative with their project, and it quickly becomes evident that it's not an easy to task to take on, especially in such a short span of time. The result is something quite remarkable, it essentially being a gigantic program that actually draws on an enormous canvas.
MattBatWings is no stranger to complicated redstone contraptions in Mojang's sandbox title. In fact, this MS Paint build utilizes an image copying device that they built in Minecraft just recently. The final construction comes bundled with a regular brush tool, a line tool, a circle and square tool, and one for allowing people to draw a sprite and having it transmitted onto the canvas. It's a pretty spectacular collaboration from these two talented builders, and it even makes use of an algorithm created by Sloimay.
There are countless projects that fans can build and show off, some of which are complicated, and there are others, such as this latest example, that are recreations of already existing things. Not long ago, YouTuber Fundy created their own giant version of Tetris within Minecraft. They've also made their own horror-inspired version of Pac-Man, while others have rebuilt blocky versions of worlds lifted directly from other gaming franchises.
Given that Minecraft is a game with near-infinite replay value, it's not surprising there are so many things that are possible, and why so many people still love it. It's for this reason that the game is going strong even to this day, as the only limitation, as cheesy as it sounds, is the player's imagination. It will be interesting to see what other amazingly complex ideas people will put into the game going forward.
Minecraft is available now for Mobile, PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.
Source: PCGamesN