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Minecraft is a sandbox video game originally created and designed by Swedish game designer Markus "Notch" Persson, and later fully developed and published by Mojang.

The creative and building aspects of Minecraft enable players to build constructions out of textured cubes in a 3D procedurally generated world.

Other activities in the game include exploration, resource gathering, crafting, and combat.

Multiple gameplay modes are available, including a survival mode where the player must acquire resources to build the world and maintain health, a where players have unlimited resources to build with and the ability to fly, an where players can play custom maps created by other players, and a spectator mode where players can fly around and clip through blocks, but cannot place or destroy any.

The PC version of the game is noted for its modding scene, where a dedicated community creates new gameplay mechanics, items, and assets for the game.

A minigame (also spelled mini-game or mini game and sometimes called a subgame or microgame) is a short video game often contained within another video game, and sometimes in application software or on a display of any form of hardware.

A minigame is always smaller or more simplistic than the game in which it is contained.

Minigames are sometimes also offered separately for free to promote the main game.

For instance, the Pokémon Stadium minigames involve merely pressing a few buttons at specific intervals, with little complexity.

Some minigames can also be bonus stages or secret levels.

Hide-and-seek (or hide-and-go-seek) is a popular children's game in which any number of players conceal themselves in the environment, to be found by one or more seekers.

The game is played by one player chosen (designated as being "it") closing their eyes and counting to a predetermined number while the other players hide.

After reaching this number, the player who is "it" calls, "Ready or not, here I come!" and then attempts to locate all concealed players.

Survival games are a subgenre of action video games that generally start the player off with minimal resources, in a hostile, open-world environment, and require them to collect resources, craft tools, weapons, and shelter, and survive as long as possible.

Many survival games are based on randomly or procedurally generated persistent environments, with more recently created games often playable online, with multiple players on a single persistent world.

Survival games are generally open-ended with no set goals, and are often closely related to the survival horror genre, in which the player must survive within a supernatural setting, such as a zombie apocalypse.

A player character or playable character (PC) is a fictional character in a role-playing or video game whose actions are directly controlled by a player of the game rather than the rules of the game.

The characters that are not controlled by a player are called non-player characters (NPCs).

The actions of non-player characters are typically handled by the game itself in video games, or according to rules followed by a gamemaster refereeing tabletop role-playing games.

The player character functions as a fictional, alternate body for the player controlling it.