what is minecraft?

Minecraft is a sandbox video game created and designed by Swedish game designer Markus "Notch",
and later fully developed and published by Mojang. The creative and building aspects of Minecraft
allow players to build with a variety of different cubes in a 3D procedurally generated world.
Other activities in the game include exploration,
resource gathering, crafting, and combat

gamemodes

Developement of minecraft

Minecraft was first released to the public on 17 May 2009.The first major update, was released on 28 June 2010.
These updates included new items,blocks,mobs,survival mode and changes to the game's behaviour Mojang,
a video game company was set up with the money earned from the game. On 11 December 2010,Minecraft was
entering its beta testing phase. Mojang moved the game out of beta and released the full version on 18 November 2011.
The game has been continuously updated since the release, with changes ranging from new game content to new server hosts.
2014september,25 Microsoft announced a $2.5billion deal to buy Mojang, along with the ownership
of the Minecraft intellectual property.