Minecraft Edmonton

[Daveography]

Building Edmonton block by Minecraft block

Philip Mitchell’s favourite video game is Minecraft and he wanted to use it to give Edmonton some representation in the virtual world.

edmonton.ctvnews.ca

 

[Edmontonian]

Thats really cool, I agree with him that Edmonton lacks representation in the video game world so I'm glad he's doing this, he's doing a great job so far as well.

 

[IanO]

Very cool.

Who remembers the guy who built a scaled SimCity map of Edmonton?

 

[Daveography]

^ I sure do! It was all documented here:

City of EDMONTON

I'm making Edmonton to an exact scale over the next few years. First by hand terraforming every square ft. of the city. The river valley will be as d...

community.simtropolis.com

It's too bad most of the image links are dead now, but here's a shot of the region that's still in the thread:

 

[Etani]

I do remember, it was pretty insane.

 

[DutchBoy]

Just saying, one of the top Minecraft speed runners globally is from somewhere in Alberta! https://youtube.fandom.com/wiki/IlluminaHD