How Minecraft is helping kids fall in love with books

Re:How Minecraft is helping kids fall in love with books by billfruit on Saturday July 14, 2018 @10:31AM (#17530475)

Realy though I wish that there was something like minecraft, but with an RTS-style disembodied god-view camera, with zoom, pan and rotate, which I think will make building things much more painless. Perhaps some mods can approximate that, but if there was something build up from the beginning for such an interface it would be a nicer thing to have for people who would rather build than walk around catching the scenery.

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Re:How Minecraft is helping kids fall in love with books by mattnewton on Saturday July 14, 2018 @10:35AM (#17530491)

Not really the same game, but Factorio scratches this itch for me. I eventually stopped because it got too close to work, but for a while I was absolutely hooked.

If what you liked was solving puzzles of how to build things and accumulation of resources I recommend it. If it was building large structures out of legos, this game isn’t that though.

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Re:How Minecraft is helping kids fall in love with books by savanaly on Saturday July 14, 2018 @10:32AM (#17530479)

Minecraft with mods? I'm sure there's more than one that does exactly that.

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Re:How Minecraft is helping kids fall in love with books by Viliam1234 on Saturday July 14, 2018 @01:14PM (#17531200)

Not exactly what you wanted, but in Cube 2: Sauerbraten http://sauerbraten.org/ (open source) you can easily edit rooms in god view, and then use the map for a first-person shooter.

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Re:How Minecraft is helping kids fall in love with books by itronitron on Saturday July 14, 2018 @10:48AM (#17530535)

I've given some thought to making a better world editor that would interface with Minecraft through command blocks or via the Glowstone MC server. There are a few existing world editor applications but they are quite sluggish (last time I checked). If you want to build small things with cubes then you should check out the latest voxel editors.

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Re:How Minecraft is helping kids fall in love with books by billfruit on Saturday July 14, 2018 @02:13PM (#17531523)

I checked some voxel editors sometime ago(unfortunately not remembering their names right now), they seemed geared towards modeling small things, not huge monuments, vistas, mountains or expansive landscapes like people seems to do in minecraft.

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Re:How Minecraft is helping kids fall in love with books by itronitron on Sunday July 15, 2018 @08:53AM (#17535030)

might be worth checking out >> https://ephtracy.github.io/index.html?page=mv_renderer

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