A Game of Blocks: The Amazing WesterosCraft
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You know, I thought I was done being impressed with Minecraft creations, but the longer the game is out, the more people discover they can do with it. This project, well it just might be the most insane thing that’s ever been done with the game.
Crazy player Maruku has gone to the trouble of recreating almost every major city or landmark in Game of Thrones’ Westeros inside the game. No, I doubt this was all done by hand, but regardless, even if it was program-assisted in some way, it’s a work of art that clearly took a lot of effort.
Sadly, we don’t get to see any epic battles between blocky armies, but maybe that’s next on the agenda. Check out the full, fantastic gallery below:
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There are a few videos on youtube of them building all these locations. Linked is their channel:
http://www.youtube.com/show/gameofblocks
How awesomely does he have that modded. I’ve never seen minecraft look so good!
I noticed a lot of these seem to be based on the book’s descriptions rather than how they appear in the show.
“Crazy player Maruku has gone to the trouble of recreating almost every major city or landmark in Game of Thrones’ Westeros inside the game. ”
It’s actually a server load of people, all of them working on it.
But hey, who needs accurate journalism?