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I would have to say that to sum up my experience in a sentence, minecraft definitely was a space "to imagine what's possible." It was an assignment where the line between work and play blurred.

In a society that is sometimes always governed by rules, minecraft offers a space to traverse the void between freedom and structure. Some of us wandered without being tied down, and some of us tried to give ourselves purpose by setting self-directed goals. What was interesting was that eventually once we learned how to fulfill our basic needs as individuals to "survive", we then tried to create a microcosm of our own reality, and we started building communities and farms. We decided to built houses in close proximity with one another, so we could have "neighbors." It was a chance for us to make our own rules and yet some of the rules of reality continued to seep in and manifest in the game. It became a figment of civilization. A cross between reality and our own imagination. We wanted to be "close" to each other in a virtual world because sometimes we felt lonely. Perhaps that says something about what it fundamentally means to be human, and what it means to have "freedom". Perhaps, it was just a game.