Tomorrow’s Montigny-les-Metz is imagined in the video game Minecraft.

What if you becomeArchitect From Montigny-lès-Metz the future Using Minecraft?

Since January 8, the Montignan municipality has offered children aged 10-25 the opportunity to build, Alone or with others, its neighborhood using the famous video game. A more or less faithful recreation of an existing neighborhood or A total avant-garde inventionThe “Place Pixels in Your City” competition allows everything.

“We trust him, we appeal to his visionary spiritDeputy Mayor in charge of culture, Dmitry Sokolovsky, explains the origins of the competition. Maybe they will see another color in a certain place for buildings, for nature. Montigny is a city in the midst of change, in the district of Lizé or La Horgne, we will not take all the ideas in hand but they can serve as inspiration.

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Normalization of school projects

Dmitri Sokolovsky, a German teacher at the Jean-XXIII school complex, once proposed to work on future middle and high schools. “and prototypes were often built on Minecraft, They envisioned large sports spaces, connected rooms, etc. The game allows quiet people, especially since the project was to be done in German, to express themselves. I discovered their imagination, their personality, their pride in being able to reproduce very realistic things in a short time and the time invested is more important than a more traditional project.

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The competition is aimed at people aged 10-25 living in the metropolis of Metz until March 31. Finalists selected in each Two categories (ages 10-16 and 17-25) will have to present and defend their creations to a jury in early June, and the most original will be awarded with gift certificates.

I discovered Minecraft at 23 (and it’s incredible.)

Minecraft, the best-selling game in video game history with over 300 million copies sold, is based on the exploration of an endless field where players can collect materials through mining and use them to build virtual cities or survive in survival mode.