A Very Minecraft Christmas!

Hello everyone!

I hope you are all having fun in the lead up to Christmas!

Since Christmas is creeping ever so slowly towards us I thought I would tell you about my favourite thing about gaming at this time of year...Christmas Themed Minecraft!

The thing I love most about Minecraft is the endless creative possibilities, you can pretty much create anything you want by fashioning it out of the many different materials you find throughout the game. I pretty much think of it as lego for grown-ups! Though I am not talking about the lego kits you get these days where you are given pieces to make a particular fancy model of a star wars ship or a ferris wheel. I mean back in the days of my childhood when I had a huge blue box filled with random pieces of lego that would put Lego Land to shame.

Since Minecraft was released back in 2009 its many players have made some completely amazing creations from Disney Castle replicas to huge PvP maps. One of my personal favourite places to find awesome Minecraft creations is Yogscast Sjin's youtube channel particularly his Let's Build A Kingdom series. He has so far built the Kingdom's main city, a village, a huge dragon head shaped mountain and is currently working on an evil fortress for the Kingdom's rivals. He is very talented and has made some absolutely beautiful buildings using this simple game. I highly recommend you check out his channel (which I will post a link to at the end).

Christmas themed Minecraft creations get bigger and better every year! People make giant Santas, reindeer, snowmen, candy canes, christmas trees and of course Christmas themed adventure maps where its all down to you to save Christmas! Over the last couple of weeks a few friends of mine and myself have been making our own little Christmas Village which is starting to look quite adorable if I do say so myself. Our little village centres a giant Christmas tree which, with the introduction of different coloured lamps and redstone repeaters looks absolutely  amazing at night! Dotted all around the village our cute little red and white candy canes and small little reindeer. My personal favourite is one of my own of creations, my Christmas Bakery filled to the brim with cake! I also fashioned a little Christmas pudding to keep with the theme. What I also love is that snow golems finally look normal in our Christmasy snow biome! Snow Golems are bros I love having an excuse to make them by the dozen :D

Christmas also brings out the good in people and this is no different in the land of youtube. The yogscast are once again opening their minds and their wallets and raising money for charity by donating bees for bee keeping  It may sound odd but honey is a great way for under privileged communities to make money for themselves so it is really a great cause! They are doing Christmas Livestreams help get donations where they play all sorts of games including Minecraft! If you are interested in donating I will leave a link at the end!

So now to you! What have you been playing over Christmas? Hoping Santa brings you any particular game?If you too are playing Minecraft have you made anything Christmasy? I'd love to hear your thoughts and see your creations!

Well that's all for now!

Merry Christmas!

-BGG

Yogscast Sjin;s channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/yogscastsjin

Yogscast Honeydew's Honey Drive:  http://www.justgiving.com/yogscast

A Little Introduction To Me

Hello people with internet access!

I thought I'd start of my little blog with a small introduction to me so maybe if you continue to read my blogs you will understand why I have the opinions I do. I have decided that for now I wont be giving away many personal details such as my real name, my friends real names etc. Maybe I will one day but since I am a first time blogger and I am quite a shy person I'm going to test the waters a bit first before I give too much of myself away. I will tell you however that I live in Ireland, in the great city of Galway and that as my name suggests I am a female gamer who doesn't think she is very good.

Now when I say I'm a girl gamer I don't mean I play Call of Duty 4 with my boyfriend and now consider myself a gamer. I have played PC and console games from the good old days of the Sega Mega Drive, Nintendo 64 and PS1. However I don't think I really would have called myself a gamer until I entered college. It was then I had the freedom to stay up until the ungodly hours of the morning playing World of Warcraft, the many Pokémon games and old reliable Super Mario. When I did venture out into sunlight and talked to other gamers who had gotten lost on their way to the many gaming stores we have in Galway they also led me on to the other loves of my life League of Legends, Guild Wars, Halo and Minecraft. If you decide to continue reading my blogs then you will probably see me talking about these games and more (especially Minecraft cause I loooove minecraft).

People will probably wonder why I chose the name 'Bad Girl Gamer' so I thought I'd clear that up before I start. I chose it because my blogs will focus on games, I am female and though I play games I am in no way a "pro" and can be quite bad at the games I play. I am not trying to be the whole damsel in distress female gamer who is hoping guys will read my blog because they see me this way. I just thought it was a catchy name that suited me and what my blogs will be about. I'm also not saying I'm bad when I'm actually quite good. I really am below average sometimes especially at LoL (my friends will vouch for this :P ). Anyway I don't mean to go off in a rant I just wanted to clear that up.

Games mean a lot to me, I have a lot of fun with them and I love talking about them with other people which is why I have started this blog. I will be updating at least once a week or whenever I have a random thought about a game! Obviously not everyone will agree with my opinions which is fine! Please feel free to comment with your own thoughts I really would love to hear them. Please try not to be mean about it though especially to other people sharing their own opinions. Lets try keep this a happy place :D

So this was a brief introduction to me the gamer and what my blogs will be about. I hope you enjoy it and I look forward to hearing your own thoughts and opinions about my future blogs!

In short welcome to my little corner of the internet! Enjoy your stay and please wipe your feet before entering :D


-BGG