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— Hamish Macleod (@hamacleod) March 11, 2013
My son Thomas (9) is an avid minecraft fan, he plays it on xbox, computer and ipod touch, he connects with friends and neighbours on it and plays for hours on it. He has encouraged his sister Alice (7) to play by playing on her creative side and staying in creative mode with her.
He has created his own world with her and with his next door neighbour, they have their own community with their own houses and their own adventure parks, slides, rollercoasters, Parkour playgrounds.
I actually love seeing them playing together on this game, there is so much co-operation and negotiation and support going on between them, they talk creatively and imaginatively continuously through play. They focus together on a shared activity without fighting for much longer periods of time than in real life games – infact they played real life minecraft by creating their own outfits and weapons and then went survival but soon both began arguing and complaining.
I am beginning to think about how I could use game based communities for my essay
