Miss West
English II Honors
7 Dec.2012
Persuasive Essay: Minecraft Are you bored and lonely on a Friday night? Are you a creative designer who wants to create their own world? Are a student who thinks school is too hard and thinks Mrs. Saravia’s faces are the greatest thing ever? If you’re any of those or more, Minecraft is the game for you! Minecraft is created by Markus Persson, the founder of Mojang AB. The game involves players creating and destroying various types of blocks in a three-dimensional environment. The player takes on an avatar that can destroy or create blocks on multiplayer servers and single player worlds across multiple game modes. You can also form fantastic structures, creations, and artwork. Minecraft is game amazing game that everyone, including you, should play. Many people face the many emotions of life, whether it’s sad, happy, bored, or curiosity. With Minecraft, you can play the game to cure your emotions. For instance, if you’re curious, start an adventure on Minecraft. This game was built as an above, and below adventure world. Your time could be so preoccupied with mining, creating, harvesting that you forget the fact that you’re bored or sad. One of the main goals in Minecraft is hunting for diamonds, which is the rarest block to find. When you find a diamond block you get filled with all this excitement and sense of confidence because you kept pushing to find the diamonds. If you like more of the thrilling excitement you could also fight the nocturnal monsters. Monsters including Creepers, Skeletons, Zombies, Spiders, and even Witches are always out for your life, if you’re on a non-peaceful gamemode. Those monsters can always spawn out of any patch of darkness and you will always have the thrill of killing them with anything including your sword or even a hoe. With supported evidence, Minecraft has already been a largely popular game and is a logical choice if you
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