Category: Minecraft

  • Insomnia / Sponge

    Since i49, I’ve now attended a number of Insomnia Gaming Festivals, returning as a staff member each time. I’ve had the pleasure of working with a number of people from Multiplay, but also with the event volunteers. I should have expected as much by now, but the community behind projects is often the most interesting…

  • Minecon #2

    I guess I just don’t get around to posting on here very much. It has been a year since the last Minecon, and it has been an interesting year. I was invited to be a speaker at Insomnia Gaming Festival 49 (i49), which was great fun. Got to meet a lot of awesome people, including…

  • Minecon

    The last blog post on here, was my first real post about Essentials. Essentials is a Minecraft server plugin, based on the Bukkit server mod. The purpose is to basically turn the basic vanilla server into a platform that can be used to host a online community. Without a plugin suite like Essentials, a player…

  • Essentials.

    I briefly mentioned in a earlier post (Minecraft) the Essentials Bukkit server mod, for the game Minecraft. The server plugin adds a basic set of admin/staff tools to a server, and can add a lot of easy to use tools for players at the same time. The idea behind Essentials, is that the core plugin…

  • Minecraft

    One of the more interesting things to hit the geek scene at the moment is Minecraft. For quite some time now, in just about every Linux or programming medium I use I come across discussion of Minecraft. By most definitions Minecraft is an indie sandbox construction game, although peoples ‘mileage’ does somewhat vary. The most…