[This is week 1 of The Minecraft Devotional]
One of the things that originally got me interested in Minecraft was that it was a game that seemed to have no rules. You could run freely through the world and play the game however you wanted to play it. That is how I like playing games. I don’t do well with games that make you follow a certain pattern and require you to go from checkpoint to checkpoint. Within the first few laps of a racing game, I am turned around going as fast in the wrong direction – because I can.
I downloaded the mobile version of Minecraft on my iPad and was immediately hooked. It didn’t take me very long to realize that the game that seemingly had no rules was actually full of them. First, I tried to mine an iron ore block with a wooden pickaxe. When the ore broke, I was left with no iron. Rule #1, you need to make a stone pickaxe to mine the iron ore. [Read more…] about Minecraft Devotional #1: A Life Without Rules [Series]