Inthis episode we’ll take you on a trip down memory lane to a game you probablyplayed when you were younger: minecraft. We take a qualitative analysis of howthe game has provided us with nostalgic memories and impacted our lives for thebetter. We explore different ways that the game has affected us past andpresent, and how minecraft can spark collaboration and creativity.

Producer:Winslow Wanglee

AssistantProducer: Michael Mariam

LineProducer: Greg Lawrence

Sources:

Banks, Jaime, and Nicholas David Bowman. “Emotion, Anthropomorphism, Realism, Control: Validation of a Merged Metric for Player–Avatar Interaction (PAX).” Computers in Human Behavior, Pergamon, 24 Aug. 2015.

Bowman, Nicholas, and Tim Wulf. “Finding Nostalgia in the Pixelated Video Games of Decades Past.” The Conversation, 27 Aug. 2019.

Bailey, Dustin. “Minecraft Player Count Reaches 480 Million.” PCGamesN, 11 Nov. 2019.

Music sources all by Chad Crouch:

Moonrise:https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Chad_Crouch/Arps/Moonrise

IllustratedNovel: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Chad_Crouch/Arps/Illustrated_Novel

Ellipsis: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Chad_Crouch/Arps/Elipsis

Algorithms: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Chad_Crouch/Arps/Algorithms