Friday, September 28, 2012

Minecraft Review


Are you a creative gamer? Well minecraft might just be the game for you.
Minecraft is an unlimited indie styled sandbox. A sandbox is a game that basically never ends and the possibilities are endless.
There is no real point to Minecraft and the graphics are all pixelated. This makes many gamers think it’s a bad game but honestly if you try it, I’m sure you will like it. There are texture packs that make the game look amazing and you can make your own goals in Minecraft. Whether it is to survive and complete all the achievements, destroy everything with TNT, kill anything that stands in your way or to build spectacular creations.
Minecraft is also multiplayer. It is really easy to set up your own server and invite your friends to join and survive/create with you.
In Minecraft there are 3 different jam-packed game modes: Survival, Creative, and Adventure.


Survival is minecraft’s original game mode. You spawn in a randomly generated world with no items in your inventory. You have to collect wood and build a house before nightfall. Because at night all kinds of horrible things come after you. You need to mine underground and find materials to make weapons and tools to survive.

Survival Mode

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Creative mode is all about making things. The possibilities are only limited by your mind. You can make mini games, adventure games or giant structures. When you open your inventory you have every single item in the game at the click of a button. Also you can fly and break blocks with a single click.

Map created in Creative mode

Adventure mode is the mode for playing adventure maps that people have made in Creative mode. It is pretty much the same as Survival but you can’t break blocks. You can interact with chests, levers and buttons but not being able to break blocks helps the mapmakers ensure the players can’t cheat.

Playing a map, that was made in Creative mode, in Adventure mode

Minecraft costs $26.95 for your computer. You can register a free account HERE and play the demo for free. You can also get Minecraft for IOS and Xbox 360 for 1,600 Microsoft points.

In the Minecraft Store there are all kinds of merchandise. There is a variety of different Minecraft themed shirts and jumpers, figurines such as life sized swords and pick axes, a Creeper figure and Minecraft Lego.

Thursday, September 13, 2012

5 years from now


At the end of this year I will be leaving Bali and heading for Sydney Australia. I will be going to the Newtown High School of the Performing Arts. This will allow me to really focus on my acting as well as do classes that will help get me into a Marine Biology university.
Once I’m done with high school and free to roam the world I will take a gap year to travel the world and search for the best surf spots out there.
Then on my 4th year from now I will be trying to enroll into WAPA. I’ve heard it is quite hard to get in the first time but I have a back up plan. If I am not accepted I will audition for NIDA, which is also another drama university. My final plan would be to get into a university that offers Marine Biology. The school in Sydney offers the classes that will allow me to get into this type of Uni without having to take any extra courses. 


So in 5 years I will be studying either acting or marine biology.

Hopefully getting all the best grades.