Southport County Borough

Minecraft Southport

Welcome to the Minecraft in Southport page, this is where you will see past and present photos of Southport. This is all built by Owen Phillips. (age 16)

What is Minecraft? Minecraft is a sandbox video game that has no specific goals to accomplish, allowing players a large amount of freedom in choosing how to play the game developed by Mojang. The game was created by Markus "Notch" Persson in the Java programming language. Following several early test versions, it was released as a paid public alpha for personal computers in 2009 before releasing in November 2011, with Jens Bergensten taking over development. Minecraft has since been ported to several other platforms and is the best-selling video game of all time, with 200 million copies sold and 126 million monthly active users as of 2020.

On 15 September 2014, Microsoft announced a $2.5 billion deal to buy Mojang, along with the ownership of the Minecraft intellectual property. The deal was suggested by Persson when he posted a tweet asking a corporation to buy his share of the game after receiving criticism for changing the game's end user license agreement (EULA). It was arbitrated on 6 November 2014, and led to Persson becoming one of Forbes' "World's Billionaires". The original version of the game was renamed to Minecraft: Java Edition on 18 September 2017 to separate it from Bedrock Edition, which was renamed to just Minecraft by the Better Together Update.

In panel at MineCon 2011 a Swedish developer discussed the possibility of using the game to redesign public buildings and parks, stating that rendering using Minecraft was much more user-friendly for the community, making it easier to envision the functionality of new buildings and parks.

EXCLUSIVE: Ray Tracing Minecraft Southport