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![]() ![]() The Minecraft Archive Project is my attempt to stop that from happening. They'll get nostalgic, start thinking back on the game that showed them how fun it was to create their own worlds. In the 2020s they'll be artists, game designers, and programmers. Kids and teenagers are creating worlds, putting a lot of work into them, and sharing them on unreliable file-hosting sites. This time, the blocky game with the embedded programming language is Minecraft. In the early 2010s I realized that history was repeating itself. ![]() ![]() It's estimated that only half the ZZT worlds ever created still survive. When the Internet took over, those services shut down and the worlds were lost. ZZT worlds were shared through BBSes and online services like CompuServe. But many of the worlds they created are gone. The kids who grew up playing ZZT are now artists, game designers, and programmers. Lots of games had level editors, but ZZT came with its programming language, allowing you to script your own adventures and puzzles. When I was growing up in the 1990s, my favorite computer game was a blocky little thing called ZZT. ![]()
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