At some point in our lives, we decide we want to share with the world something that we do well. While Minecraft isn't something I do particularly well, the way I do it makes people happy.
Minecraft is a game about survival and sandboxing. A lot of people struggle to find a point in the game, and to be truthful, I can't find one either. But that's exactly the point: there is no point. It's a game design that the largest companies all over the world struggle to implement. You have the power to make the game what you want, at some extent.
Most "sandbox" games have a direction they want you to head to. The SimCity and Cities series encourage you to build a successful city. The Sims challenge you to guide a Sim to a successful life. You can deviate from the main goal from time to time while you're playing, but what happens when there isn't a goal set in stone? Well that's Minecraft. You're free to explore the world that can grow to more than eight times the size of earth or you can bunker in and battle nightly waves of creepers and skeletons riding spiders. Or you can do neither of those and just dig yourself into the side of a mountain and build a 32 bit CPU out of redstone.
Of course that doesn't even scratch the tip of the deep glacier that is the Minecraft gameplay experience. For this very reason, YouTube is overrun with Minecraft "let's play" series. There are famous names from famous channels recording gameplay with commentary, and there are smaller names like myself who run the same sort of series. Every single one of them is different. Some share a few similarities, but unlike the mass of CoD, Starcraft II, WoW videos, you will rarely find yourself saying "seen it". It's hard to imagine passing around a CoD headshot compilation saying "I've never seen so many unique headshots!" but when you start passing around videos of a 32-bit CPU, it cannot possibly be the same as the next 32-bit CPU. Everyone will build it in his own unique way.
And so I started my series, "Hey, Guy! It's Minecraft!" I'm not a circuitry prodigy, nor am I a world-class architect. But what I can do is make people laugh. I don't pretend that I'm awesome at slaying creepers, but when I go out to slay a creeper, people wait for some sort of chance to chuckle. I like that. I like that I can provide a shred of light on someone's day with such a simple act.
At first, I didn't give my series any credit. I figured it was just boring. But then a lot of my friends started watching it, and I was actually getting subscribers to my channel. This is my motivation. I don't need anything else but to know that people appreciate me spending a few minutes once in a while sharing my Minecraft with the world.
I love it.
Without further delay, here's a link to my channel, and after it a link to the playlist which should be up to date with the videos.
http://www.youtube.com/user/cryptology
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=B4361037D2269CB2
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