Posts by Yaniv:
Another Tour of Another of Yaniv’s Kingdoms
April 4th, 2011
Hey’a folks, Im back with another home for you to look around in! This world is a little more aesthetically pleasing than the last. It’s also smaller, as I’ve just started it a month ago. Please, take a seat, relax, grab some popcorn and enjoy!
Minecraft: Exaunt from Solitude, Enter Survival Multiplayer
March 30th, 2011
You’ll notice within moments of playing Minecraft, that there is a wide gaping hole missing from the experience. You are entirely, completely, suffocatingly alone. Not only will no one be there to hold your torch in the deeps of a cavern, no one will even be there for you to gloat to when you finish your island kingdom.
Week of Minecraft: A Tour of Yaniv’s Kingdom
March 28th, 2011
Starting off our first night of Minecraft, we dive into my own world. This kingdom, I built with my bare hands over the course of the last 6 months. I would by very offended if any of you did not absolutely love it and want to play in it and totally want to be just like me.
Video after the break.
Week of Minecraft
March 27th, 2011
Ladies and gentlemen, you have listened on the edges of your seats for months to me ramble on and on about a little gem called Minecraft. Some of you may have been brave enough, or intelligent enough, devoted enough, or maybe you’re easily influenced, and you may have bought the game. For those of you who have, you already know what it’s all about, for those of you who have yet to take the plunge, this is the series for you.
This week, we will be covering the spectrum of blocky underground goodness. Posts ranging from tutorials, to modifications, and even a tour of my much discussed kingdom.
Grab onto the nearest pick axe, we’ll be coming at you every evening with a new nugget of Notch’s masterpiece.
SideQuesting’s Best of 2010 #6: Minecraft
January 20th, 2011
Minecraft. I didn’t have a good way of starting my emotional banter last time, and I still don’t have one now. The game is fantabulous. It’s new (so new, in fact, that it’s barely even considered a proper release), original and innovative. Although I bet that I would be perfectly happy playing clones of Oblivion and Fallout for the next decade, my gaming preferences have started to become a little narrow, if not stale. Oh, I’ve played other games and genres, but my preferred staples have all remained grounded on the Gamebryo engine. Then came Minecraft.
Review: Call of Duty Black Ops
January 2nd, 2011
Call of Duty: Black Ops: Christ, this one has been tough to put an editorial finger on. It’s taken me a full month with this game before I could even begin to say that I understand it’s ins and outs enough to be publicly critical of it. The keystone to this review, and not having angry mobs of COD fans attack me in my day to day life, is understanding my background. I own two Call of Duty games; COD 2 (no, not Modern Warfare, but COD2… the one about the World War!) and now Black Ops. As a self respecting gamer, I’ve played the other Call of Duties — 3, 4, and Modern Warfare 2 — completing all of their single player components and also spending a fair amount of accumulative with the multiplayer. So please, dear reader, keep this info in the back of your consciousness as you read the following. I hope beyond hope that it will keep you from becoming murderous, if not even keep you civil.
Minecraft: An Exploration Into Your Own Greed
October 13th, 2010
Over the last few weeks, Minecraft has become the internet’s newest pre-beta hot-to-trot indie game. You know the type, the really cool glorified tech demo that all the podcasters talk about, the ones that ‘show a lot of potential’ and the ones people see being ‘way more awesome after some more polish’. Well they couldn’t be more accurate. Rivaling the underground thrones of of games like ‘Cortex Command’, Minecraft combines simple ‘Lego block’ worlds with a clever crafting mechanic… and not much else. There’s no story, there’s no goal, there’s no point. Except your own greed. The only achievement you will ever receive is that of personal satisfaction a sort of ‘I made it’ feeling. Its not a direct social commentary, but it makes you think about a world where the only objectives ever set for you, are set by yourself.
The SideQuest Episode 209: The Return
September 21st, 2010
Welcome to the SideQuest, your semi-weekly podcast devoted to gaming, culture, and gaming culture, with the occasional tangent.
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