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Manycraft: Scaling minecraft to millions [PDF]

2013 12th Annual Workshop on Network and Systems Support for Games (NetGames), 2013
Minecraft is a popular game with more than 20 million paying users and many more playing the free version. However, in multiplayer mode, only a few thousand users can play together. Our measurements show that, even reducing the landscape, i.e., the map, to a uniform flat land, a server cannot host significantly more users.
Diaconu, Raluca, Keller, Joaquín, Valero, Mathieu   +2 more
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Children’s Out-of-School Learning in Digital Gaming Communities

Designs for Learning, 2021
The aim of this study is to investigate children’s out-of-school learning in digital gaming communities. This was achieved by exploring girls’ participation in Minecraft communities.
Marina Wernholm
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Le concours Villes et territoires de demain avec Minecraft® à la carte

Géographie et Cultures, 2019
The National Institut of Geographic and Forest Information (IGN) has developed a new web service, called Minecraft® on Demand (www.ign.fr/minecraft), designed to provide Minecraft® maps from the geographic data that IGN produces and diffuses.
François Lecordix, Sofiane Kriat, Mouna Lekhnati   +2 more
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Writing for Players

Prompt, 2021
This article describes a technical writing assignment that requires students to use Minecraft to design and document interactive learning environments.
Matthew Kelly
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MineCraft a Media for Resilience [PDF]

Electronic Workshops in Computing, 2015
In 2010, Wyman et al. (2010) examined within a mental health framework 'Resilience', to promote a culture in young people in schools of building strategies, as a tool to self-manage the escalation of potential conflict points, aimed at mediating conduct in the classroom.
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Capturing Sheep With Minecraft [PDF]

, 2012
Capturing Sheep With Minecraft befasst sich mit ausgewählten Problemen der Bauphysik und deren Umsetzung mithilfe des Computerspiels Minecraft. Es werden ausgewählte Probleme der Bauphysik in Minecraft abgebildet um diese Schülern und Studenten näher zu ...
Großmann, Felix
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Minecraft’s Implementation and Impact on Education [PDF]

ITM Web of Conferences
Minecraft is a popular sandbox video game that offers freedom of creation and collaboration. Its unique qualities are benefiting education. This paper aims to analyze the impact of Minecraft on education and its current application status.
Liu Qihao
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Factoring in Minecraft

Ohio Journal of School Mathematics, 2022
In this paper, the author describes a method for using MineCraft as a manipulative for factoring composite numbers and quadratic equations. These concepts are extended to an investigation of perfect square trinomials, completing the square, and Pythagorean triplets.
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Minecraft: Education Edition sitt potensial i matematikkundervisning. [PDF]

, 2023
I læreplanverket 2020 blir bruken av teknologi og digitale verktøy i skolen vektlagt, som kan sees i forbindelse med at dataspill har blitt et større satsningsområde i samfunnet generelt. Minecraft: Education Edition er et aktuelt digitalt verktøy som er
Due, Emma, Håverstad, Celine
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Lower secondary school students’ conversations when constructing representations of plate boundaries in Minecraft

Nordina: Nordic Studies in Science Education
This article explores students’ (13 y) conversations when they construct representations of plate boundaries in the digital gaming environment of Minecraft Education.
Julie Guttormsen
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