Whenever I played Minecraft, i always asked myself "Where did Notch get inspiration for this game?" I now understand. All this time, we haven't been playing a game, we've being reading a message, carefully encrypted. Every aspect of the game is part of the message, if you look close enough, none of it is a game. None of it.
When you start off in the game, you are on a beach, alone. No one is there to help you, no one. In SMP there are people to help, but are they really there to help you survive, or to help you see the suffering, by suffering themselves. What must you do afterwards? Cut down trees with your fists, pain equals the first steps towards success...or does it? Next, you make a work bench, and some tools. Tools represent imaginary aid, things that you think will help you, like drugs, but really you just waste your life trying to get them, and get angry when they are all used up. For example, what do you do to get what you most desire? And what is it that you most desire? Diamonds, you desire diamonds, to help you make more tools, to help you think you are now safe, and to make you angry when they are gone. You spent perhaps weeks down underground, never seeing sunlight, looking fro something that you are only going to have for a short while. EVIL. What do Monsters represent? Hardships and trickery of life. Zombies you will find in caves, thinking you can kill them easily, perhaps you can, but when they swarm you? when you are cornered? When you can't see? Zombies represent problems, no matter how hard you try to destroy them, more keep coming, eventually you will get overwhelmed. But what of the sunlight? The sunlight that saves you from the zombies? This represents theoretical happiness, happiness you would have if you DIDN'T spend all your time away from it, underground, looking diamonds, the drugs of Minecraft. So drugs lead to problems, eh? Simple enough. Skeletons also represent problems, that hurt you when you least expect it. But die when you stop looking for diamonds. But night time, when even if you are above ground, you can be killed. This represents false accusation, and injustice. When you are accused of crimes, more problems come your way, and you can't stop them. You can lessen them, survive for a while, but you can never survive he night outside of your home, like in real life. If you try and be daring, not staying in your house, something bad will happen, even if you didn't deserve it. Now creepers, well, creepers represent you, never being able to accomplish your dreams, no matter how hard you work, a creeper will eventually take all of that away from you. Now one last thing, about diamonds. With diamond tools, what special stuff can you? Mine obsidian, right? And what can you do with obsidian? Make a portal, right? And does this portal go? To heaven, where your problems will be solved and creepers no longer exist? No, you go to hell, with flying things, that look so easy to hit, like problems looking so easy to overcome, but impossible to do so in reality. They also shoot creepers at your work.
