By Barnes from Barnes - 22/11/14 - Science and Nature
Games’ Talk – Comments on computer games
Ever since the popular game Minecraft was published, people all over the world – 27,284,812 to be exact – have spent hours on end playing the game. I should know, because I’m one of them. But what about the rumor that it is based on the Vikings?
I have found many signs that Minecraft is based on the Vikings. Here are just a few:
- The Vikings were keen blacksmiths. Minecraft also has a lot to do with shaping metal: you can create Armour from all kinds of material, and other things from burning metal in a furnace, then putting them in a crafting table to actually make a specific item.
- In “survival” the person playing kills animals to survive. You cook there meat in a furnace and eat it. Vikings did the same.
- The most striking likeness to the Vikings though, has to do with clothing. In the game you wear Viking-like helmets and armour. And you get into fights a lot (again-I should know). The Vikings were sometimes very violent.
By Lou Lou