Carol Krista’s speaking Marc Fisher is emceeing we’re gonna have a bunch of real big-name EDM artists actual speaker whoever it’s gonna be is like way cooler than any like speaker that was originally lined up we have boba We didn’t have as high of aspiration as we do now to kind of finish it and make it such a big thing Evan Quan posted on overheard and from then the thing really took off we got a 600 new people on our discord server room we had three to five Buildings were being built today for about a week how many people have been working on it just about a hundred of us we have a spreadsheet online of what we need to do kind of all the buildings that we have and then we prioritize them To see oh this one has been done kind of move on to another one like a Argos map and so we use that and a measuring tool within that program to measure out all the wall lengths on every single building I will place down an outline of The building and then use Google Street View and Google Earth to figure out how or what the buildings actually look like how they how they are what the wall designs look like build the exteriors and then go in and the interiors with photos that we find University resources The university is paying for all of our servers and they’ve been very gracious about funding that places there’s so many different facets to this project now because it was just let’s build the campus and now it’s Oh working with the university oh we have this huge musical Festival that we’re planning we all kind of nominated people the different positions for you know PR back-end stuff bill please mainly our team is split up into people who have either been at Berkeley a very long time or didn’t get to experience birth ly for a very long time at all and So be able to share kind of like emotional connections with the different building is a really cool and interesting experience minecraft commencement is something that we were thinking you know once the map got to a critical mass we were definitely interested in doing something like that just because the timeline really matched Up and we didn’t want to deprive the campus of something and you know the class of 2020 more generally or something that’s supposed to be a very celebratory event [Applause] we are contacting some very very big people for keynote speakers Carol Crist is speaking Marc Fisher is emceeing it’s Going to be as close to a to a real commencement as we can as anyone can get a fairly limited number of people who will be able to log into the server want to you know log on as soon as we open it will be streaming and we expected most Of our audience to be watching we’ve been working with superb to put together a really exciting music festival we’re gonna have a bunch of real big-name EDM artists playing back to back and I think once we are able to open up to a much wider audience will be able to let People from other universities people from the class of 2020 prospective students international students all experienced campus in a way that wasn’t really possible before I’ve gone on to the other servers like University of Washington you still they Stanford of the best campus and we also have the Most like details you know not to pick beef with any of the other schools but let’s take beef the thing that’s really special about the servers that everyone who builds adds a little character everyone has different places on campus that means watch them the Kresge engineering libraries on fire because You know a couple of us have gone through and customized the textures so that all the armors look like Cal gear and graduation here we got the little like emojis at the key bus to brain like Berkeley we have Bobo someone came on the server yesterday That lived at unit one and said they had post-it notes pac-man so every every little detail really makes it like a little more emotional a little more a little easier to relate to in vlsb so input the t-rex skeleton the Chancellor liked that a lot So did you guys like log on with the Chancellor and show her all Messer oh no she logged on with us and Carol came on randomly they had told her official name and we’re like oh okay the Chancellor’s here we have we have UCPD setup I literally got a $300 ticket Mikey in a no bike zone try to put all the little hidden bears statues that are on campus it’s hard to kind of talk to like older generation about this project because to us it’s kind of like this is completely natural like our generation kind of Looks for those virtual communities to hang out we’ve all been stripped of the community at Berkeley so I think the project is more about trying to substitute that community in the virtual in a virtual world definitely been a lot of positive comments that we’ve had and A lot of a lot of hope and inspiration from others to kind of say oh these people are not like trying to be all doom and gloom they’re really trying to make something better out of our circumstances you Video Information
This video, titled ‘An Inside Look At Blockeley: The #1 Minecraft University (UC Berkeley 2020 Commencement)’, was uploaded by CalTV on 2020-05-06 06:34:04. It has garnered 36482 views and 746 likes. The duration of the video is 00:05:19 or 319 seconds.
CalTV sat down (virtually) with the Blockeley team to hear about all of their exciting projects and plans — including a partnership with SUPERB, Carol Christ, Marc Fisher, a mystery keynote speaker, virtual boba, EDM, 2020 commencement, and more!
**UPDATE** The partnership between Blockeley and SUPERB no longer exists.
Find out more about Blockeley here: http://blockeley.org Server IP: mc.blockeley.com
Thank you to their team that was featured in this video: Bjorn Lustic, Nick Pickett, Hunter Hall, Nga Nguyen, Christian Nisperos, and Seiji Sakiyama.
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