A creative maker from Bulacan started with recreating Bulacan State University on Minecraft and is now also doing famous landmarks, parks, and entire cities in the Philippines.
The sandbox game Minecraft allows players to use and design blocks to build anything they can imagine.
A CREATIVE gamer from Bulacan who goes by the name JST Creations is touring us around the country through online gaming.
The idea could not have come at a more perfect time especially now that pandemic-induced lockdowns are giving us a hard time to travel and visit our favorite tourist destinations.
The sandbox game Minecraft allows players to use and design blocks to build anything they can imagine.
A software developer from Bulacan replicates landmarks such as the National Museum, Manila Central Post Office, Cebu City, Rizal Park, Fort Santiago, even the ABS-CBN Broadcasting Center and posts them online.
Many of his YouTube videos feature how he created the replicas, a tour of the finished creation, as well as informative historical details regarding the structure.
The artist and gamer have been creating real-life structures in Minecraft since 2016 but only started posting it online in 2018.
JST Creations ' YouTube videos offer great option for educators looking to introduce their students to some of the Philippines' historical landmarks, churches, and schools.
Other Minecraft players who have recreated Philippine landmarks include Von Brix Caliva aka BrixBuilds on YouTube, Tyrone Elizalde who featured the GMA Network Building, and over 80 students of the University of Santo Tomas who altogether recreated the entire UST campus.
Minecraft isn't the only place Filipinos have recreated Philippine locations in a game.
During the wake of quarantine in May last year, Jim Diaz recreated Enchanted Kingdom on Parkitect, a theme park simulation video game.
Few teachers have been creatively using the game to teach chemistry, coding, communication, and more since the game launched in 2011.
In response, the company released Minecraft: Education Edition in 2016 to educate both academe and students on how to make use of the game mechanics in their curriculum.
As an example, Minecraft launched two new lessons on International Women’s Day, featuring activist Malala Yousafzai advocating for girls’ education in modern Pakistan and suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst on the right to vote in Victorian Britain.
Many are familiar with Minecraft using it as a way to bring fun, creativity into learning could only be one of the ways gaming can be used during this pandemic. (HD)