The story of minecraft

Minecraft – The Story of Mojang

The following two extracts are from the documentary Mojang: The Story of Minecraft which can be found in full on Youtube. Watch the extracts carefully and answer the questions.

A Youtuber’s experience (Interview with Ali-A (additional comments by …) . Time 24.34-33.56:

1) How many subscriptions does Ali-A have for his Youtube channel? over 5 million

2) How many years have he been doing this? 5 years

3) Why did he start playing Minecraft? his fans asked him to do it, started a survival series.

4) What does he say he is trying to do with his content?  merge both call of duty and mine-craft

5) Describe his average working day - wakes up between 12-2pm, turn on setup and start computer, then get ready and by 3-4pm, makes 3 videos a day. 2 videos on mine-craft channel then another video of cod channel. makes 1st video for 7 then next for 10pm then final video 1am. 

6) Why might we watch You tubers? people used to be playing themselves, now people like watching really good people play. or supporting your own supporter, just like a sports game. they are entertainers so adds to the experience.

7) What is Twitch and what is the average time spent on it by a viewer? 4 hours a day.

8) How much do you estimate that Ali-A earns in a year? 2.5 million

Microsoft’s purchase of Mojang (3.22-8.15) :

9) How much was Minecraft purchased for? 2.5 billion

10) What are 3 reasons behind Microsoft’s purchase?

a) money 

b) to expand to all of the different devices 

C) new audience to Microsoft 

11) How might this affect the game? oversee the development in the future, offers more support and infrastructure so mine-craft can be made bigger and better in the future,

12) What is Minecraft’s biggest asset?

the community