Minecraft & Its Effect

Reply to Minecraft & Its Effect on Sun, 21 Feb 2016 13:44:34 GMT

StillThinking — Sun, 21 Feb 2016 13:44:34 GMT

terry:
Hi all

Haven been in this forum for awhile but this heading caught my eye while i was searching for some info.
Pls find some time to watch youtube videos of this game and what other players r creating out of mc. Its not as innocent as building hses or farms anymore. My 9yo has been very keen in this game since forever because EVERYBODY is playing it. I went online to do research and couldn't believe what i saw. Some players create females beings and will invite online players to have sex with it. It can get pretty graphic. sometimes a game is created for leisure n can seem to be fun and imaginative. But there r many weirdos out there to perverse stuff. So pls take care of what ur kiddos r exposed to online.

Rest Assured, those are mods. Mods aren't necessarily easy to download. If your child doesn't have like a youtuber he or she watches, you should go find some you tubers who don't use vulgar(ok if they blank out vulgar, shld be find). Don't do pervertic mods and all. The game itself is fine actually. Also, there are minigames which involves no violence at all, some even train ur reflex.

Reply to Minecraft & Its Effect on Sat, 20 Feb 2016 14:34:48 GMT

lee_yl — Sat, 20 Feb 2016 14:34:48 GMT

My DD2 also likes to read Minecraft Diaries and insiders guides, how to brew potions & to enchant stuff etc. She was very addicted to Minecraft last year.

Reply to Minecraft & Its Effect on Sat, 20 Feb 2016 12:47:22 GMT

zakashi — Sat, 20 Feb 2016 12:47:22 GMT

My DS is an avid reader in all the Minecraft story books.

Reply to Minecraft & Its Effect on Thu, 18 Feb 2016 05:05:04 GMT

ijustwannaknow — Thu, 18 Feb 2016 05:05:04 GMT

concern2:
Chatted with DS again last night about this game. Seems like there are different versions of the game. If you don't like the killing part, switch to CREATIVE mode. The killing is usually in the SURVIVAL mode. DS prefers to play in the creative mode because it stretches his imagination.

After talking to him, I have a feeling that kids like it to have a sense of control. In the real world, they are often told what to do, and being city dwellers, we are not FREE in the sense that we can't just build anything we want and go live where ever we want, but they could do that in this game, on creative mode, without all the threats (survival mode contains the threats).

DS said when DD plays the game, he noticed she likes 'tame' the animals by feeding them and the farm animals will start following her around. \"Very cute\" he said.

For the part when he refuses to leave the game when I tell him to, he had this to say, \"Because sometimes after building something, you have to test it to see if it works.\" Seems that you can even build machines with this game.

Hope this help explain better - to be fair to the game

Interesting seems like there are possible dimensions to games that we don't see eh

Reply to Minecraft & Its Effect on Tue, 09 Feb 2016 17:37:45 GMT

terry — Tue, 09 Feb 2016 17:37:45 GMT

Hi all

Haven been in this forum for awhile but this heading caught my eye while i was searching for some info.
Pls find some time to watch youtube videos of this game and what other players r creating out of mc. Its not as innocent as building hses or farms anymore. My 9yo has been very keen in this game since forever because EVERYBODY is playing it. I went online to do research and couldn’t believe what i saw. Some players create females beings and will invite online players to have sex with it. It can get pretty graphic. sometimes a game is created for leisure n can seem to be fun and imaginative. But there r many weirdos out there to perverse stuff. So pls take care of what ur kiddos r exposed to online.

Reply to Minecraft & Its Effect on Mon, 09 Nov 2015 13:21:11 GMT

mumof8 — Mon, 09 Nov 2015 13:21:11 GMT

Hi mummies and daddies!

Not sure about this Minecraft game but do you have to pay for this game?
My son has this game for PS4 but he say that it’s not the same when playing on
PC? Is it true? Please can anybody share their experiences… Thank you!!!

Reply to Minecraft & Its Effect on Mon, 04 May 2015 07:37:07 GMT

lauises — Mon, 04 May 2015 07:37:07 GMT

On the topic of "game addiction". Try imagining that your are doing your favorite activity (maybe watching a K drama) and someone changes the channel.

A lot of it has to do with closure. Although as parents, our form of seeking closure is "2 hours is up, Stop.", closure for the kids is different. It could be to finish building this particular structure, or finish exploring a particular dungeon.

While I think it’s important to moderate, and control, be careful not to go too far. I’ve seen many young people now, living with restrictions and prohibitions to the point that they get stressed, or forget how to pursue their interests and passions as they grow up. On the other end of the spectrum, once parents release their control in their adulthood, they go full-blown addiction and don’t know how to control themselves, because they never learnt to control themselves.

Reply to Minecraft & Its Effect on Tue, 31 Mar 2015 13:26:46 GMT

concern2 — Tue, 31 Mar 2015 13:26:46 GMT

Good on ya, Jedamum! :salute: :salute:

Reply to Minecraft & Its Effect on Mon, 30 Mar 2015 14:31:54 GMT

jedamum — Mon, 30 Mar 2015 14:31:54 GMT

Gaming addiction is very real. I somewhat am recovering from gaming addiction which took away time from my forum surfing and other stuff. Even my kids complained about it. But as an adult, it took me only a few days of cold Turkey before I got over it. Plus a near crash in the system that threatened to wipe out the data in my server.

It began beginning this year when my kids introduced me to Mine craft. Oh. Though pocket edition, the endless possibility of creation in creative mode is addictive. I can’t believe my kids are so disciplined when I limited them to only ten mine craft minutes during psle year last year. What can you build in ten min ? My son said he is already well trained. My other son complained of my addiction too. I must stop.

Now I still MC daily. But about 30 min every night. The whole family joins in and I gave myself an excuse that it is for family bonding. Ha ha ha. We go survival mode and the kids are great in help. Don’t think I can survive without them. Offline, over dinner, we discussed about related stuff too. Amazed at how much they know. When nightfall, I am the most vunerable. The dad is a skilled "fighter" in other games so no problem fighting using a carrot. The younger one uses arrows and reckless. The older one is a user of elements, using both water and fire to combat the mobs. I am slow response anddies easily even with an iron sword and two backup stone swords in my inventory. Ha ha. We fight as a team, watching one another’s back.

It is fun…and because I need them to survive, I cant play when they are not around. Ha ha ha.

Reply to Minecraft & Its Effect on Tue, 21 Jan 2014 01:56:05 GMT

concern2 — Tue, 21 Jan 2014 01:56:05 GMT

b2b3m4:
I watched Jo Frost's Extreme Parenting and it showed a experiment done in schools.

One group of students were exposed to these war computer games and the other group were not. At the end of the experiment, one by one the kids were called in to the room for a chat. During the chat, the interviewers simulated a scene whereby a container of pencils fell off from the table.
Interestingly, most of the kids from the non computer group went up and picked up the pencils and put them back on the table while the computer games group sat there and did nothing, letting the interviewer picked up everything himself.
From the experiment, they also found that those kids who play war games when watching killing / violent scenes on TV, has no effect on their bodies (example signs of anxiety, increase in heart rate , breathing etc). WHile those who don't showed uneasiness and increase in heart rate.....
They did not mention what war games the children played.

War games stimulate the survival mode in a person so one becomes less helpful. Death in war games is a norm - you can die and still resume the game, so one becomes more apathetic. Makes sense.

Reply to Minecraft & Its Effect on Tue, 21 Jan 2014 00:57:59 GMT

b2b3m4 — Tue, 21 Jan 2014 00:57:59 GMT

I watched Jo Frost’s Extreme Parenting and it showed a experiment done in schools.

One group of students were exposed to these war computer games and the other group were not. At the end of the experiment, one by one the kids were called in to the room for a chat. During the chat, the interviewers simulated a scene whereby a container of pencils fell off from the table.
Interestingly, most of the kids from the non computer group went up and picked up the pencils and put them back on the table while the computer games group sat there and did nothing, letting the interviewer picked up everything himself.
From the experiment, they also found that those kids who play war games when watching killing / violent scenes on TV, has no effect on their bodies (example signs of anxiety, increase in heart rate , breathing etc). WHile those who don’t showed uneasiness and increase in heart rate…
They did not mention what war games the children played.

Reply to Minecraft & Its Effect on Tue, 21 Jan 2014 00:42:50 GMT

silverhorse — Tue, 21 Jan 2014 00:42:50 GMT

Just want to share my two sons’ experience. I allow them to access computers on Friday nights onwards to Sunday. When DS1 is on MC, he is on skype with his friends. As it is interactive, the boy will get very excited, talking loudly to his friends. I regretted letting him go on Skype. Playing the game itself is ok. There’s a time frame though - 2 hours each game and to them, 2 hours pass by too fast for them.Now, my sons do not watch TV anymore. They will go to YouTube to watch how people play MC. They have a favorite Youtuber. Anyways, my sons have controlled timing on MC, I also educated them on bad languages used in MC as well as computer game addiction. I think parental control here is very important.

If your kids have not gone to the level of skyping with friends to play MC, don’t let them!

Reply to Minecraft & Its Effect on Mon, 20 Jan 2014 10:44:49 GMT

NigelTKM — Mon, 20 Jan 2014 10:44:49 GMT

computer addiction is a very dangerous problem indeed… I am not sure if it will help, but personally I think if your DC engage actively in sports, they won’t really bother much about computer games.

Perhaps it will be good if the children are actually brought to do sports by the parents regularly. It brings out their personal competitive spirit to outdo themselves every time they engage in that particular sport. Moreover they may feel good when they are one of the top performer in the sports section among their friends. Swimming and jogging may be a good start. Endorphin will make them feel better and lowers their level of anger I feel.

However if they are really very addicted to the games, perhaps it will be good to learn about the game from SupaSiMCraft’s post. Afterwhich, talk about the game and discuss purely about the game with your DC (do not talk about the bad effects of gaming and such yet). Ask them to teach you about the game when sitting beside them. Make jokes about the games and also praise them like "wow you mean you actually build things to defend yourself from the zombies? omg I think I will die in a day!!". Eventually after a few days of that, they will feel that you are actually "into the game" like them. That’s when it will be easier to slowly ask them to cut down on the game by using jokes and terms from the game? Like maybe 15mins before the end of the gaming session by saying "Dear, about time to stop in 15mins, rem to build that wall you was mentioning before the zombies get you." Over time I feel they might be more comfortable and felt that you’re not really commanding them, and that’s when you can have that heart to heart talk about why last time you were so against them playing computer games all day while relating to the bad effects.

Just my thoughts on this issue, personally I haven’t have any children so am not very sure about handling these situations. Hope I helped at least a little.

Reply to Minecraft & Its Effect on Mon, 20 Jan 2014 07:34:15 GMT

Funz — Mon, 20 Jan 2014 07:34:15 GMT

ngl2010:
Funz:
[quote=\"ngl2010\"]I banned DS from playing Minecraft so he watched people playing on YouTube and he is addicted to watching it!

Luckily now he doesn't have much spare time so he doesn't watch it anymore.
Same here. In the end, he gets access to the ipad and comp only on weekends.

Wait until your DD and DS got addicted to Whatsapp. It is much harder to control . They can get thousands of messages within a day![/quote]
DD hands over her phone when she gets home as well. She does not bother much about watsapp now.

I don't have much problems with DD getting hooked on any comp games. So far she does not seem to have the patience nor interest to play them that long. DS on the other hand does get lost in the game, he is the kind who gets very engrossed, be it minecraft, other comp games, lego or even storybooks.

Reply to Minecraft & Its Effect on Mon, 20 Jan 2014 03:59:26 GMT

ngl2010 — Mon, 20 Jan 2014 03:59:26 GMT

Funz:
ngl2010:
I banned DS from playing Minecraft so he watched people playing on YouTube and he is addicted to watching it!

Luckily now he doesn't have much spare time so he doesn't watch it anymore.
Same here. In the end, he gets access to the ipad and comp only on weekends.

Wait until your DD and DS got addicted to Whatsapp. It is much harder to control . They can get thousands of messages within a day!

Reply to Minecraft & Its Effect on Mon, 20 Jan 2014 03:56:25 GMT

Funz — Mon, 20 Jan 2014 03:56:25 GMT

ngl2010:
I banned DS from playing Minecraft so he watched people playing on YouTube and he is addicted to watching it!

Luckily now he doesn't have much spare time so he doesn't watch it anymore.

Same here. In the end, he gets access to the ipad and comp only on weekends.

Reply to Minecraft & Its Effect on Mon, 20 Jan 2014 03:51:19 GMT

ngl2010 — Mon, 20 Jan 2014 03:51:19 GMT

I banned DS from playing Minecraft so he watched people playing on YouTube and he is addicted to watching it!

Luckily now he doesn't have much spare time so he doesn't watch it anymore.

Reply to Minecraft & Its Effect on Mon, 20 Jan 2014 02:34:37 GMT

Tamama — Mon, 20 Jan 2014 02:34:37 GMT

My two kids are playing minecraft on ipad as well. We don’t have the PC version. Once my older daughter asked for it and I said if she could be the in the top three in class during final exam I will install it for her to play during the year end holiday. I told her when new year starts I will remove the game. As a result I saw her putting more effort on revision. But she finally did not get into the top three so I didn’t install the game. She said she was fine to play the pocket edition on ipad.

I limit their time if playing to the most 1 hour a day, have to be after all of their tasks done and should not be later than 8pm on school days. And I also tell their this is their privilege to enjoy if their conduct / behavior is good only. I take off the privilege if bad things happen.
Both of them like to build large buildings in the minecraft game. My boy has ASD, he builds big signs by using blocks to build letters like Hollywood, Animal planet… Build big houses, extensive railways, big standing iPhone… I am speechless when I see them… My girl builds the furniture in the houses to share with the brother. Looks like they are having fun.
Besides minecraft they also play hayday, and other things…

Reply to Minecraft & Its Effect on Fri, 27 Dec 2013 13:49:26 GMT

concern2 — Fri, 27 Dec 2013 13:49:26 GMT

SupaSiMCraft:
Hi all, I'm a student who's also an avid Minecraft player and I'd like to clear a few things up:

-Yes, there are several versions of this game. It started as a PC game and there are now versions for Apple and Android (\"Pocket Edition\"), as well as Xbox 360. PS3 and PS4 versions are in development.
-There is more to Minecraft than building. There are 2 main game modes on the PC edition, Survival and Creative. In Survival mode, the player has health and must gather resources to survive, like wood/stone to build a house. Later on, the player can go mining to find other materials like iron and make better tools. At night, monsters come out and they can hurt you, resulting in a decrease in health. If health reaches zero, the player dies.
In Creative mode, there is no health, so you cannot be killed by monsters, falling, starvation or other things that might kill you in Survival. You have infinite blocks and resources, and the ability to fly. Many players use Creative mode as a means to build large structures.
-It is possible to build machines. Redstone, one of the minerals, can be placed on the ground as wire, allowing a sort of current to be transmitted. When linked with certain objects like pistons, redstone current can make these things move.
-I think that Minecraft is addictive because there is simply so much to do! Besides the main world, there are 2 other dimensions to discover, namely The Nether and The End.
The Nether is the equivalent of Hell, and it's full of creatures that can't be found in the Overworld (the main world). You need a special portal to travel there, and gathering the material for the portal takes time so...
The End is where players face off against the game's main boss, the Ender Dragon. Once you're there, you can't get out unless you die or defeat the dragon!
Aside from that, the game is constantly evolving with updates from the folks at Mojang, so it never gets boring!
Hope this helped

Haha! Thanks for filling us in. Read this to the kids and they went.. \" :rahrah: Sounds fun, right? Mama? Wanna play? :evil: \"

Reply to Minecraft & Its Effect on Fri, 27 Dec 2013 09:34:22 GMT

SupaSiMCraft — Fri, 27 Dec 2013 09:34:22 GMT

[quote]Oh, oh, btw, DS also said there is a character (\"Ghast\" if I remember correctly) will approach you and kill you if you stare at him in the game . This reminds me of those 'stare-kill' incidents.[/quote][/quote]

That's the Enderman. It's 3 blocks tall and one of the hardest monsters to kill.
The Ghast inhabits the Nether and shoots fireballs at the player.

Reply to Minecraft & Its Effect on Fri, 27 Dec 2013 09:31:42 GMT

SupaSiMCraft — Fri, 27 Dec 2013 09:31:42 GMT

Hi all, I'm a student who's also an avid Minecraft player and I'd like to clear a few things up:

-Yes, there are several versions of this game. It started as a PC game and there are now versions for Apple and Android (\"Pocket Edition\"), as well as Xbox 360. PS3 and PS4 versions are in development.
-There is more to Minecraft than building. There are 2 main game modes on the PC edition, Survival and Creative. In Survival mode, the player has health and must gather resources to survive, like wood/stone to build a house. Later on, the player can go mining to find other materials like iron and make better tools. At night, monsters come out and they can hurt you, resulting in a decrease in health. If health reaches zero, the player dies.
In Creative mode, there is no health, so you cannot be killed by monsters, falling, starvation or other things that might kill you in Survival. You have infinite blocks and resources, and the ability to fly. Many players use Creative mode as a means to build large structures.
-It is possible to build machines. Redstone, one of the minerals, can be placed on the ground as wire, allowing a sort of current to be transmitted. When linked with certain objects like pistons, redstone current can make these things move.
-I think that Minecraft is addictive because there is simply so much to do! Besides the main world, there are 2 other dimensions to discover, namely The Nether and The End.
The Nether is the equivalent of Hell, and it's full of creatures that can't be found in the Overworld (the main world). You need a special portal to travel there, and gathering the material for the portal takes time so...
The End is where players face off against the game's main boss, the Ender Dragon. Once you're there, you can't get out unless you die or defeat the dragon!
Aside from that, the game is constantly evolving with updates from the folks at Mojang, so it never gets boring!
Hope this helped

Reply to Minecraft & Its Effect on Thu, 19 Dec 2013 07:21:54 GMT

Jennifer — Thu, 19 Dec 2013 07:21:54 GMT

Ah boy told me there are > 1 version of Minecraft.

Reply to Minecraft & Its Effect on Thu, 19 Dec 2013 06:43:31 GMT

sparks — Thu, 19 Dec 2013 06:43:31 GMT

ds loves to play this game, at the moment on xbox live, where he plays with others online. I thought this is one of the better games that stretches their creativity & resourcefulness. I don't notice any increased agressive behaviour in ds since he started playing after PSLE. When I asked him to stop, he'll at most asked for a couple of minutes more to save the game & will happily put it away. It brings him much fun & he sometimes spends time thinking of how to create traps to prank other pp.

I think the game itself is alright.