[dropcap size=dropcap]T[/dropcap]here are only a few days until the whole world celebrates this year’s Halloween. And it seems that even the games are now trying to get into the spirit of the holiday. Minecraft makes no exception, as a new texture pack was announced and made available for free download just two days ago.
The new Minecraft Halloween texture pack is available for download on Xbox Live marketplace.
It features new artworks for jack-o’-lanterns, screaming trees, slimy rivers, skeletal remains, black cats and many other nice treats for the Minecraft fans worldwide. The Minecraft Halloween texture pack has only 4 megabytes and will be available until November 3.
If you are not yet familiarized with the game, before downloading Minecraft Halloween texture pack, you should know that Minecraft is a popular indie game created by a Swedish programmer named Markus Persson. First, it was published for PC gamers in 2009 and adapted for consoles later. The Minecraft Xbox 360 version is available from May 9, 2012, when it was released as an Xbox Live Arcade game, co-developed by 4J Studios.
All version of the game receive periodic updates and patches such as the final Minecraft Halloween texture pack available these days.
Minecraft is one of the most inspiring for creativity games available at this time. It allows players to build constructions by using textured cubes in a 3d world. The game however lets its user explore new grounds, gather resources, craft tools and engage in combat. There are two main gameplay modes available for the commercial release of Minecraft: Survival mode where players are required to gather resources and maintain their health and the survival mode in which they have unlimited resources at their disposal, no health, no hunger and the ability to fly. There is however a third gameplay mode, the Hardcore level, similar to the survival mode but more difficult and with respawning disabled. Upon death in hardcore mode, each player is forced to delete his or her world.
From 2011 until the present, Minecraft has become more and more popular, receiving no less than five awards. In 2011, it was awarded the Innovation Award, The Game Developers Choice Awards, the Seumas McNally Grand Prize and the Audience Award. In 2012, the game received a Golden Joystick Award in the category Best Downloadable Game. Quite impressive, given the game started as an Indie game and was developed by a single person. Since its release as a commercial title, the game sold over 12.5 million copies on PCs, and over 33 million copies across all platforms, including the Xbox 360 version. As we have said before, Minecraft Halloween texture pack has only 4 megabytes and will be available for download on Xbox Live marketplace until November 3.