The afternoons plan was to a) post a package, b) maybe go collect my copy of The Judge Dredd RPG.

I achieved the first part of the plan. And I was still undecided on the second and final part. Whilst making my mind up I thought I’d pop my head in The Luxe and ask my friend Nathan if he could get the link for the data that was used to make up the Minecraft model of Wisbech. Why would he have that?

Heck The Luxe was only being used to host the launch of Wisbech: Made in Minecraft project this afternoon.

But somehow I ended up watching the whole presentation instead of doing the second part of the plan.

From a technical stand point it was interesting how they did things. They even had an art teacher from the local secondary school there showing off their Minecraft creation that was the school fully modelled in the educational version of the game. It even had some educational use built in. The bit they showed was a ‘who done it’ murder mystery that was in fact a maths lesson!

The short movie of clips from within Minecraft of the Wisbech model with voice overs from interviews of citizens of the town, was interesting. And I think as a proof of concept was good. But I think something that expanded on that idea and used more interviews of a wider selection of the town, more memories of the older members of our community. Maybe even model some of those historical buildings no longer here (like the gas works). It also struct me a bit Aardman animation like with the animation and voice over.

I know they were pushing the education and intergeneration thing. But for me my real interest lies in using the world created for use with the The End of the World: Zombie Apocalypse RPG. Instead of using a small A5 size street map of Wisbech. I could have the survivors navigating their way round the zombie apocalypse using the Wisbech Minecraft map.

Read the Official Announcement with out The Wisbech Standard copying and pasting it and passing it off as their words.