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.

In computing, a server is a computer program or a device that provides functionality for other programs or devices, called "clients".

This architecture is called the client–server model, and a single overall computation is distributed across multiple processes or devices.

Servers can provide various functionalities, often called "services", such as sharing data or resources among multiple clients, or performing computation for a client.

A single server can serve multiple clients, and a single client can use multiple servers.

A client process may run on the same device or may connect over a network to a server on a different device.

Typical servers are database servers, file servers, mail servers, print servers, web servers, game servers, and application servers.

A multiplayer online game is a multiplayer video game which can be played via a game server over the internet, with other players around the world.

Some prominent examples of this include fighting games (e.g. Street Fighter IV and Tekken 6), sports games (e.g. NHL 14 and Grid Autosport), older online games (e.g. Sega Meganet titles), first-person shooters (Battlefield 2, BZFlag, Call of Duty, Counter-Strike, Quake 3, Resistance 3 and Unreal Tournament), a subgenre of shooter games called hero shooter (Battleborn, Overwatch and ), strategy video games (e.g. Warcraft 3 and StarCraft or ) and a subgenre of strategy games called multiplayer online battle arena (e.g. Defense of the Ancients, League of Legends, Dota 2 and Heroes of the Storm).