Poland has created a state-owned Minecraft server to combat isolation

Governments usually try to create programs to remove children and teenagers from the world of video games, which is considered dangerous or unhealthy compared to more noble activities such as football or mere physical exercise.

Let's be clear: playing video games will never give you the calves of a professional player, nor will it develop certain physical characteristics; what it can do is other and it is equally powerful and important and it is not the subject of this news.

What made us smile is that, for the first time in recent history, a government (European, by the way) has set up an educational program for children that includes a giant state server. Minecraft, all to try to prevent the expansion of Covid19 which is causing a lot of talk during these months.

The goal of this server is very simple: to encourage children not to lose sociality and to practice it through the title of Mojang e Microsoft.

Grarantanna or why go out when I can play Minecraft?

The project Grarantanna it is one of the plans that the Polish government is about to launch to try to mitigate the problems created by the coronavirus on the youngest population in its state. Grarantanna is a virtual educational place, a platform with various activities including the state server of Minecraft.

Accessing Grarantanna it will be possible to choose between different options: play board or role-playing games online, participate in educational web conferences, face questionnaires on national history or geography curiosities (complete with virtual prizes), participate in a real game jam or enter the Minecraft server.

La Poland, already in his second week of total isolation, he set up this program with the aim of providing all young people bored with the situation, one more reason to stay at home and avoid the runaway expansion of the virus. Grarantanna it has purely educational purposes and will serve to transform this period into time useful for education, removing the holiday streak that many may have found in these sad days.

The server of Minecraft they are open to practically all students of all ages, from elementary schools to universities. Each player will have for himself a flap of 60 * 60 blocks to create the most innovative and creative structure; these will then be analyzed, collected and publicly awarded on March 30th thanks to the work of the association that manages the project.

Grarantanna is a project organized by the association Neverlight, a Polish organization that works in the world of exports, the creation of videogame-themed events and the publishing of national board games; not exactly the latest arrivals on the pitch.

The umpteenth great success, in essence, for the project of Mojang and Microsoft, arrived where practically very few other video games have been able to boast of having arrived.

THEedutainment through the use of Minecraft it has reached new heights and the world of blocks and creepers will help who knows how many children to overcome this complicated period of modern history.