Chain World
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Chain World is a computer game designed by Jason Rohrer, and built on the game Minecraft
. Chain World won the 2011 Game Design Challenge. The goal of the challenge was to create a game which could become a religion. The official name of the challenge was GDC: The Game Design Challenge: Bigger Than Jesus.
Only one known copy of the game exists on a customized USB flash drive
. The game was designed to be played by only one player at a time who would alter the game world. Future players were to be chosen by the current USB drive holder. After his GDC presentation, Rohrer passed the game on, apparently at random, to audience member Jia Ji. Jia Ji created controversy by selling the game on eBay
and imposing his own set of rules about who could play Chain World.
Minecraft
Minecraft is a sandbox-building independent video game written in Java originally by Swedish creator Markus "Notch" Persson and now by his company, Mojang, formed from the proceeds of the game. It was released as an alpha on May 17, 2009, with a beta version on December 20, 2010...
. Chain World won the 2011 Game Design Challenge. The goal of the challenge was to create a game which could become a religion. The official name of the challenge was GDC: The Game Design Challenge: Bigger Than Jesus.
Only one known copy of the game exists on a customized USB flash drive
USB flash drive
A flash drive is a data storage device that consists of flash memory with an integrated Universal Serial Bus interface. flash drives are typically removable and rewritable, and physically much smaller than a floppy disk. Most weigh less than 30 g...
. The game was designed to be played by only one player at a time who would alter the game world. Future players were to be chosen by the current USB drive holder. After his GDC presentation, Rohrer passed the game on, apparently at random, to audience member Jia Ji. Jia Ji created controversy by selling the game on eBay
EBay
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and imposing his own set of rules about who could play Chain World.