The Curiosity That Is Minecraft: Pi Edition

Minecraft: Pi Edition is a modified port of the game Minecraft to the Raspberry Pi, a hobbyist single-board computer. It is a bit of an oddity, because it differs greatly from other editions of Minecraft, is completely free, saw only fleeting support from Minecraft’s developer Mojang, and is obscure, despite being a port of the best-selling game of all time. A small house built in Pi Edition. Note the cyan rose, which was exclusive to old versions of Pocket Edition, as the colour red caused bad image ghosting on the Xperia Play. History Minecraft was originally developed in Java for desktop operating systems. As the game grew in popularity, demand grew for it to appear on more platforms. In August 2011 the first port of the game, Minecraft: Pocket Edition (MC:PE), released on the Xperia Play. In October the game came to wider Android, and in November it came to iOS. To run on mobile phones of the time, the Pocket Edition was written in C++, rather than Java, and was severely cut down…