Minecraft is an “open world” construction video game or in English sandbox originally created by the Swede Markus Persson (commonly known as “Notch”), which was later created by Mojang Studios (currently part of Microsoft). It is programmed in the Java programming language for the Java Edition version and later developed in C for the Bedrock Edition version. It was released on May 17, 2009, and after numerous changes, its first stable version “1.0” was published on November 18, 2011.

Pixel Art

The fashion, film and music industries have succumbed to the so-called ‘pixel art’, a digital art discipline that recovers the naïve nature of the primitive pixel.

Pixel AR or pixel art is a form of digital art, created through a computer through the use of raster graphics editing programs, where images are edited at the pixel level. The images of most old PC video games, game consoles and many mobile phone games are considered works of pixel art. It has similarities with pointillism, differing mainly in the tools for creating the images: computers and programs instead of brushes and canvases.

Pixel Art terminology was first published by Adele Goldberg and Robert Flegal, both members of the Xerox Research Center in Palo Alto.