I discovered Minecraft a few weeks ago. I immediately bought two copies -- one for me and one for my son so we could play multiplayer together. It was recently picked up by the guys at machinima.com and the videos are getting a lot of attention on youtube. The author is saying he’s getting 2500-4000 sales per day. Actually, these are pre-orders for the full game which gets you access to alpha.

The original game, now called classic, was a basic block-building sandbox game which has been around for about a year. You had unlimited resources, so other than building cool stuff, there wasn’t much to do. This version is still available and it’s free to play. The fun, however, is in the alpha version which costs 10 euros.

The entire world is randomly generated of blocks of different textures: stone, dirt, sand, gold ore, coal, water, lava, etc. Your job is to gather resources, craft tools, an explore. However, the bad guys comes out and night and try to kill you so it’s a challenge just to survive.

Here’s an intro video..

Here’s another video that shows some off some of the cool stuff you can build..

This is such a fun game and there are so many neat things to discover and do. I highly recommend reading the wikifor more ideas.