Meatcraft's Minecraft theme makes it okay for adults to play with blocks

An art project by Jeffrey Kam and Cody McCabe reconstructs Minecraft's ... construction in real life. "Meatcraft" is a collection of 1,500 cardboard blocks made using the textures from Minecraft. Visitors to the exhibit (shown at San Jose State University last month) were encouraged to build structures with the themed blocks on two crafting tables inside a fully Minecraft-ized room. There were even tiny little pixelated pickaxes and other tools.

"We noticed several types of visitors in the gallery that very closely mirrored the different types of Minecraft players," the artists said on the project's site. "There are players who like to mine, some who like to build structures, and even some who simply stand around and watch the awesome things people do in game. In the gallery, those who were familiar with Minecraft began digging for ore, specifically the very rare diamond (we only had 4)."

If you happen to run some kind of art space, and you'd like to turn it into a play space, you can contact the artists and set up Meatcraft in your own gallery.