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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 mod (short for "modification") is an alteration where someone, usually a player, takes the code of a video game and changes it.

Mods may range from small changes and simple tweaks to completely new games made within a video game.

An indie role-playing game is a role-playing game published outside of traditional, "mainstream" means.

Varying definitions require that commercial, design, or conceptual elements of the game stay under the control of the creator, or that the game should just be produced outside of a corporate environment.

The validity and exact definition of the "indie" label is disputed.

An experience point (often abbreviated to Exp or XP) is a unit of measurement used in many role-playing games (RPGs) and role-playing video games to quantify a player character's progression through the game.

Experience points are generally awarded for the completion of quests, overcoming obstacles and opponents, and for successful role-playing.

Home computers were a class of microcomputers entering the market in 1977, and becoming common during the 1980s.

They were marketed to consumers as affordable and accessible computers that, for the first time, were intended for the use of a single nontechnical user.

These computers were a distinct market segment that typically cost much less than business, scientific or engineering-oriented computers of the time such as the IBM PC, and were generally less powerful in terms of memory and expandability.

However, a home computer often had better graphics and sound than contemporaneous business computers.

Their most common uses were playing video games, but they were also regularly used for word processing, doing homework, and programming.