In spectator mode, users can take virtual photographs and move around the environments, even by flying in the air like a drone, but without interacting with the world. There's a multiplayer feature as well as several game modes, including survival mode, where players acquire resources, maintain health and ultimately battle the Ender Dragon. In 2014, Mojang and the Minecraft intellectual property were purchased by Microsoft for $2.5 billion. It's available across several gaming platforms and computer operating systems, including Xbox One, PlayStation, Nintendo Switch, iOS, Android and Microsoft Windows 10. Minecraft was created by Mojang Studios and released as a playable game in 2009. More than 126 million monthly active users play Minecraft, in which players explore and generate three-dimensional worlds that appear as blocks - think digital Legos - to build structures and earthworks. Schultz, the president of the Esports Club at SRU, started the project in October, and enlisted the help of four of the club's more than 100 members: Daniel Frisco, a junior history major from Pittsburgh Zeve Olbum, senior communication major from Pittsburgh Patrick Sheafer, a freshman computing major form Leesburg, Virginia and Brenden Woodside, a junior computing major from Kittanning. Minecraft gives us a good framework to recreate the campus." "Minecraft is about expressing your creativity and one of the main motivations for us is to take advantage of the limitless possibilities of the game. "Considering the pandemic is limiting our range of physical interaction, I thought that it would be a good idea to bring campus to a virtual setting where we can still have that sense of community," said Adam Schultz, a junior dual computing and philosophy major from Emmaus. The popular video game allows users to build elaborate virtual environments within the game and five students from the Esports Club at SRU chose to recreate the University's campus. There is no mortar or physical construction involved, but rather pixels in the virtual world of Minecraft. A group of Slippery Rock University students are rebuilding SRU's campus brick by brick. The Quad at Slippery Rock University and other parts of campus are being created by SRU students in a virtual environment using the popular video game Minecraft.
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