by Sarah Fields
A Minecraft player has created a challenge for themselves to play the game while only seeing printouts of the game via a printer. The self-imposed Minecraft challenge is just one example of how gamers are constantly finding ways to play games on devices that were never meant for gaming.
While Minecraft has seen its own fair share of peculiar challenges, the arguable king of this type of challenge is 1993's Doom. Over the years, gamers and programmers have challenged themselves to play Doom on all kinds of devices that were never intended for games, like running it off of a DSLR camera, a medical scanner, or a thermostat, among others. However, actually relying on printed-out screenshots of the game to play is a bit extreme, even by Doom challenge standards.
Minecraft Gamer is Utilizing Printed Screenshots to Play
YouTube content creator smillgames has revealed that he's trying to play Minecraft with no screen or display to work off of at all, instead relying upon printed-out screenshots of the screen. Smillgames debuted a teaser of the challenge, in which viewers can see the actual screen, but he has to rely upon low-quality printouts of what's being displayed. While playing a game on an extremely low-resolution screen would increase the challenge on its own, as smillgames is using an actual printer, he only gets an update on what's displayed as often as the printer can spit out a new image.
As one might expect, there are some significant downsides to trying to play the game like this. Since the printer can only go so fast, even calm moments like walking around outside in the daytime can seem confusing, with abrupt changes. For example, at one point a sheep that was standing in front of the player simply seems to vanish to smillgames, as it disappears entirely from one printout to the next. In another moment, smillgames realizes that he'll have an even more difficult challenge on his hands, as the low-quality prints show his in-game inventory in Minecraft's UI as a giant black box.
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