ThoughMinecrafthas been a capstone in gaming culture for over a decade, Mojang’s sandbox building title continues to evolve with features likenew Netherite Ore to mine. Yet those extra distractions have not taken away from the game’s incredible potential for creative construction, as seen with a Cyberpunk-inspired city build posted to Reddit today.
Deltagon’s scene, uploaded to the r/gaming subreddit, looks like something straight out of thesci-fi world of Ridley Scott’sBlade Runner: Immense stacks of dark buildings with neon signs and windows shaped every which way that are connected by the occasional bridge, but mostly traversed via flying cars. In the comments they say their build took 60 hours over two weeks.
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The build was done inMinecraftbecause Deltagon says they “have an easier time bringing [their] ideas into reality” through the game, and they’ve included a separate imgur page full of in-progress photos and a gif of their city as it came to life. After creating the build they used a program called Mineways to convert it into files that were imported into blender for rendering with proper lighting and camera work.
TheMinecraftcreator has posted multiple projects to Reddit, including anotherCyberpunk-inspired “slum” in November 2019 that offers a much closer look at their process in regards to finer details like the flying cars — also made entirely out of blocks. Building in Minecraft is truly an art form, as Deltagon’s work and other examples of projects like arecreation of Hogwarts fromHarry Pottershow.
YetMinecraftis not only impressive because of what its players can accomplish through intended construction methods. The community surrounding the game has also shown its innovativeness with projects that are frankly hard to comprehend, like building aplayable recreation ofMetroid Fusionfrom the Game Boy Advance entirely in the vanilla experience using a custom shader system.
There’s also something to be said for CD Projekt Red’sCyberpunk 2077, releasing in September for current-gen consoles, the Xbox Series X, and able tostream through services like Nvidia’s GeForce NOW. For the Cyberpunk genre showcased in games like these to inspire such creativity out of people like Deltagon is no small feat.
Minecraftis available for mobile devices, Mac, PC, PS3, PS4, Xbox 360, and Xbox One.
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