Simple Lighthouse Build

Using the new creative mode on our current server, I found an interesting island a little ways into the ocean. I decided to build a fairly simple lighthouse that uses 4 pieces of lava to generate light. I really had fun doing this since it was a simple project that I could build in a small amount of free time. The project including schematic are up on PlanetMinecraft for anyone interested.

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Parkour Park Project

If you've followed my blog for a while you might remember my previous post with the video of Tharesan running our Parkour course. Well, I got around to posting it and uploading the schematic to PlanetMinecraft for anyone that is interested. Keep in mind that it was built for an old version of the game and the ladders might not quite work the same any more.

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Rubik's Roller Coaster

Lilei and I made this great roller coaster a while ago based on a Rubik's Cube theme. She came up with the idea for the Rubik's Cube and I ended up building most of it. Then I came up with the idea to make it into a ride and she made most of the ride. If you like it, check it out on the project page from PlanetMinecraft:

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Sad World Texture Pack

I made a texture pack a while back and I thought it would be a fun thing to share here. You can find it on the PlanetMinecraft page with a lot more screenshots. Here is one of them so you can get an idea of what it looks like. Basically it is a modification of the default texture pack to make everything more "realistic" like many other modern video games.


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Do NOT buy From Dust

I recently pre-ordered From Dust from Steam because after watching some gameplay footage from the xbox 360 version I thought that the game would be excellent once it had mouse controls. When I finally played the game, I found out that they in fact did not really make mouse controls for it and instead made the mouse act like it was an analogue stick (which it is not). Other people complain about the DRM in the game, but for me the real problem is that they never made the correct version of the game, the one that you can play with a point and click interface.

I encourage everyone that reads this to never buy the game From Dust unless they fix the controls.

Diablo 3 Beta soon (tm) and Gameplay Preview

If there's one game I'm really looking forward to it's Diablo 3. I've really been wanting to play a Diablo game with my friends for a very long time and I'm excited that it's finally getting close to release. The beta is rumored to be coming out any time with the most recent batch of info about the game becoming public in this last week. To celebrate, here's a video from G4 showing some gameplay previews from the upcoming game.

PC Games - E3 2012 - Diablo III

League of Legends Dominion

I know I haven't been posting on here as much as I used to, but there have been a lot of big announcements in gaming lately. Today Riot released a video announcing a new game mode for League of Legends called Dominion, which seems a lot like a king of the hill kind of game. It should provide some interesting new gameplay experiences for people that enjoy League of Legends but were getting tired of the standard lane gameplay. Without further ado, here's the video from Riot's youtube channel.