Game DNA: Making yourself a home

Game DNA is a series where we take a single concept from games, strip it to its essence, and look at how it — and we — have developed over time.

I was homeless when I discovered Minecraft — not homeless in the street-sleeping sense, thankfully. Only in the sofa-surfing sense. I had a bed, even. The creaking cabin bed of two friends who took pity on me and let me crash for a few months in their house, while I sullied my fingertips with sambuca in a dank Yorkshire nightclub for part-time pound coins. My chin-scratching uni days had just ended, but I stubbornly refused to go back to my family house in Northern Ireland. I could do this, I reasoned, I just needed time.

Then my friend showed me how to punch a tree, and I found a new home.

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