As part of a weekly challenge about subways on the MCPE subreddit I made a video of my subway. The video’s a little long, boring and dorky, but it does improve about halfway through when Beastie shows up and wants to know what I’m doing. … continue
I surf a lot of brutalism galleries. I find the architecture style hideously interesting. It doesn’t help that UMass Amherst isn’t too far from me, so I’m confronted with many intensely ugly buildings on a fairly regular basis. The other fun thing about Brutalism is that examples of it are really fun to make into MCPE builds. Weirdly enough, they do not look anywhere near as ugly within the cubed off aesthetic of a Minecraft world. My second brutalist build is based on the Geisel Library at the University of California, San Diego. It looks quite a bit like a UFO … continue
My main MCPE world is a beast. Since July I’ve built seven or eight houses ranging from small to sprawling, three four (oops) five (sheesh!) six (OMG, girl, get it together!) builds based on real places, a pyramid, four oversized zombies guarding an island, a weird looking sheep god statue, a really big castle, a prison dungeon under construction with a groanworthily punny name, an elaborate road system (because getting lost is the worst) and a subway line (complete with stations!) that runs almost two Minecraft kilometers north/south. I… might have been a little busy. Perhaps a bit compulsively so. … continue
So going back exactly 8 months ago to late evening, July 18, 2014. The new update to Minecraft had just dropped for iOS and I was terribly excited. Since I’ve never been a PC player (and have no real interest in starting), this was going to be my first time experiencing infinite worlds, Enderman, biomes, wolves and several other things Kidzilla and Beastie liked to tell me about during their visits. I updated MCPE on my phone, created a new infinite world, and pushed the button… … continue
