About Minecraft

 Minecraft is a 3D survival sandbox game developed and published by Mojang, spanning multiple platforms. It was originally created by the independent video game designer Markus Persson in 2009, before giving the development to Jens Bergensten in 2011. The game has no specific goals to accomplish, allowing players a large amount of freedom in choosing how to play the game. Gameplay is in the first-person perspective, with the core gameplay modes being survival, in which players must acquire resources to build the world and maintain health (optionally with a "hardcore" limit, which deletes the world after the player dies); and creative, in which players have unlimited resources, never hunger and are able to fly. The game world is composed of voxels—cubes, commonly called "blocks"—representing various materials, such as dirt, stone, ores, tree trunks, water, and lava, which are arranged in a 3-dimensional grid. Gameplay revolves around picking up and placing these objects as the player pleases, while being able to move freely around the world. 

The game has inspired several officially licensed novels set in the Minecraft universe:

Brooks, Max (18 July 2017). Minecraft: The Island: An Official Minecraft Novel. Del Rey Books. ISBN 9780399181771.

Baptiste, Tracey (10 July 2018). Minecraft: The Crash: An Official Minecraft Novel. Del Rey Books. ISBN 9780399180668.

Lafferty, Mur (9 July 2019). Minecraft: The Lost Journals: An Official Minecraft Novel. Del Rey Books. ISBN 9780399180699

Valente, Catherynne (3 December 2019). Minecraft: The End: An Official Minecraft Novel. Del Rey Books. ISBN 9780399180729.

Brooks, Max (2 March 2021). Minecraft: The Mountain: An Official Minecraft Novel. United States: Del Rey Books. ISBN 978-0-593-15915-6.

Eliopulos, Nick (5 August 2021). Minecraft Stonesword Saga: Crack in the Code. Random House Books for Young Readers. ISBN 9780593372982.

Eliopulos, Nick (17 March 2022). Minecraft Stonesword Saga: Mobs Rule. Random House Books for Young Readers. ISBN 9780008512385.

Eliopulos, Nick (28 June 2022). Minecraft Stonesword Saga: New Pets on the Block. Random House Books for Young Readers. ISBN 9780008495961.

  

  

  Three tabletop games have been produced as official tie-in games for Minecraft. The first two are both card games, namely Minecraft Card Game?, produced by Mattel in 2015, and Uno Minecraft, produced by Mattel in 2016.

Towards the end of 2019, Minecraft: Builders & Biomes, a board game version of Minecraft, was announced. The game was geared towards the family market, catered for 2–4 players, and was published by Ravensburger. Players explore the Overworld, build structures, and mine resources in a quest to score the most points. At the end of 2020, an expansion for the tabletop game was released, titled Minecraft: Farmer's Market Expansion, which introduced a new farm biome that enabled players to produce vegetables.