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My thoughts while playing the game for the first time
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- I had tried the free edition of Minecraft a few different times for a few minutes each time, but each time I found it kind of boring and stopped playing.
- On 2016.08.06 I finally got far enough that I felt "the hook".
- It reminds me of when I spent an evening watching the first few episodes of "Lost", and it wasn't immediately addictive, but after a while I really got hooked.
- It also reminds me the descriptions people give of smoking: it isn't fun the first time (or first few times) you do it.
- The following are thoughts from 2016.08.06/07:
- You really need to use a guide to get started, or have a friend walk you through the basics.
- I was totally stuck at the beginning because it was not clear to me that the orientation of items in a crafting box would make a difference when crafting, and there were no written instructions on how to do it.
- I found it unpleasant that I needed to kill the sheep / pigs. I wouldn't have normally done that.
- It wasn't intuitive to me that you are supposed to kill the sheep / pigs, but you are not supposed to kill the cats. I was starving at one point and thought I could eat the cats.
- This guide was enough to get me far enough to start to feel addicted:
- You really need to use a guide to get started, or have a friend walk you through the basics.
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- This game really starts to get addictive once you understand how to make weapons, torches, the crafting table, and the furnace-thing.
- I really remember getting a rush of pleasure when I dug a 3x3x3 hole, put down a crafting table, a furnace, cooked some meat, and put up a torch. I got this warm feeling of "Oooh, I'm home".
- The game does a brilliant job of hiding its full complexity to new users.
- When I would play the game in the past, I would just see the surface-level stuff and think "ugh this is boring", but when I started browsing the Minecraft wiki I was blown away at the complexity that I hadn't yet seen.
- All the different block types, the various monsters at deeper levels of the game, etc.
- So, what's the appeal of the game that I'm feeling?
- I have fairly fine control over the difficulty of the game.
- If I want a challenge, I can dig deep into the earth and try to fight monsters.
- If I don't want a challenge, I can just sleep through the nights and make stuff during the day.
- I have fairly fine control over the difficulty of the game.