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Day 1, October 24th, 2013-

I have not played a computer game for years, and it showed when I did Minecraft for an hour. I was thrust headfirst into zombies, and that did not make a good impression for me for the rest of the hour. I was sure that I was going to hate playing this game because I died a lot, I never got to do anything. 

a) I had no idea how to fight zombies, and I had no idea how to run away. By the time I figured out how to move my plain avatar, it was already too late. I died, and I kept dying at night. There was always this one zombie that was right behind me and kept attacking me even though I couldn't see it. I was only able to navigate freely during the day, but even that got boring in its own way. All I wanted to do was explore, but I was told that I had to make a table and tools. I could find nothing of value except an apple and mushrooms. I did not know how to create a table or an axe, and I never got to do so, because all the materials needed for that were already taken by many other players who had entered the game before me. It was like room draw last year where everyone before me had already taken all the good stuff and I was left with scraps. 

b)I was able to do two very small things (things that could not possibly be considered huge accomplishments, but I gotta aim low here because I'm so bad at this): I could jump out of water and off of blocks and I could hit enemies. I learned to swim upward by pressing a certain button (the space key) and jumping could help me escape (briefly) from enemies. If I kept pressing another key, I could kill a zombie at a time. However, a huge horde of them kept going at me, so I got hurt and died again. The point is, I could keep myself from dying from drowning and I could survive (for a few minutes longer) while in the company of zombies. 

c) I notice that there are a lot of cows and pigs here in this world, and I have no idea why. Why not cats or dogs? Did somebody create them? But who? And how?

d) Can I just do creative mode instead of survival from now on? I wonder if I can stick to creative mode from now on, since I hear that there is no dying or survival zombie mode in that area. I would rather stick to creative mode for the next four days of blogging, and I hope my professor/the leader of the game will let me. I just do not enjoy being thrust into a game that seems like it's for hardcore gamers and messing up due to a lack of years and years of experience.