“I had never really visited Purdue before my first semester, but that fall, when I was getting used to the campus and my classes, I quickly fell in love with it,” he says. He knew he wanted to study computer science at Purdue because he enjoyed taking an advanced placement computer science class at his high school. In the fall of 2018, Richey started at Purdue as a freshman in the computer science program. It’s a game that a lot of people can get into easily, be creative and collaborate with others,” Richey says. “I feel like Minecraft is now a generational type of game, that people around the college age have played or grew up with this game. In 2013, his family got a new computer that could play Minecraft, and he has been playing ever since. His family had a computer that couldn’t run the game at the time, but he could watch others play on YouTube. Richey’s love of Minecraft started when he was in middle school in Carmel, Indiana, and the game was first released. With over 200 million copies sold and 126 million monthly active users as of 2020, Minecraft is known as the best-selling video game of all time. The world of Minecraft consists of different cubes of materials called blocks, where the player can arrange and rearrange them to build scenes and structures. It is considered a “sandbox game,” where there are no specific goals to accomplish, allowing the player full freedom and creativity. Minecraft was first released to the public in 2011. The finished buildings include the Wilmeth Active Learning Center, the Class of 1950 Lecture Hall, Elliott Hall of Music, campus residence halls, Ross-Ade Stadium and even Purdue Mall, complete with the Class of 1939 Water Sculpture. He has finished many campus buildings north of State Street alongside Andrew Klotz, who helped build 30% of the project. First starting his passion project in 2019, 300 hours later and 3 million blocks placed, Richey has 52% of campus built within the game. Purdue Computer Science senior, Esteban Vicente-Paulino Richey, has built Purdue’s campus inside of the popular video game Minecraft. Now, a Purdue student is building his own version of Purdue's campus for the gaming generation in the world of Minecraft, making this No. Any Boilermaker alumni could tell you that Purdue University’s campus is defined by the beautiful brick buildings, iconic fountains and bell tower.
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