34. Watching someone else play Minecraft

John Moltz, co-author of The Visual Guide to Minecraft, joins us to discuss the weird and wonderful world of Minecraft. We discuss why kids are obsessed it, managing servers, mods, Java, and trolling. Bonus: Nigel does a special interview with three further subject experts - his kids.

• Moltz’ book on Minecraft, Visual Guide to Minecraft
• The bizarre world of Minecraft mods
• The Bukkit Minecraft server
• The Rasberry Pi Mineblock server Indiegogo
• Attention Mining, John’s article for The Magazine on Minecraft streamers
• ROBLOX
• Dave Wiskus’ Podcast Intervention
• John’s podcasts, Turning This Car Around, The Rebound, and frequently The Talk Show
• The Low Earth Orbit podcast
• The Silent Age’s mustaches
• Old Man Murray’s Death of Adventure Games