Meet the blockheads: a rare glimpse inside Minecraft's HQ

1. According to the writer, why might autistic children such as his son, be attracted to Minecraft?

His child was obsessed with Minecraft he started doing all kinds of things such as chopping trees,         building houses and etc. The author says that for the first time in his life he hears his son speaking when he is describing what he is doing while playing the game. The game has had a specific value for autistic children who respond to its simplest visuals, open design, and logical, interlocking system.

2.  Which features are included in the education version of Minecraft and how useful do you think they might be as an educational tool?
The company released an educational version of the game which allows teachers to set up classroom servers where students build scale models of their own towns; learn about geography, agriculture, architecture, and physics.

 3.  Why, does Bergensten suggest, have copycat versions of Minecraft been less successful?
       Copy cat versions usually have ''better'' graphics and some other modification's, which usually would         mean a good thing. However minecraft's charm is in its simplistic graphics that make the gameplay so much more interesting.

4.    It is the community that creates all the different mods of the game, in other words the community that add even more diversity to the game itself. Basically you can create a themed world, for instance a Star Wars or Middle-Earth type of place. Other players can download them and essentially access them.

5.      Bergensten notes that the sense of ownership is essential due to the fact that, players feel as if the game is theirs. They make up their own rules, their own structures  and how to interact with others.

6.       They've expanded the minecraft theme into merchandise, such as helmets, toys, shirts etc.