I recently had the pleasure of attending Quo Vadis in Berlin. For those of you who don’t know it Quo Vadis is one of Europe’s longest-standing game developers’ conferences. It moved to Berlin in 2007, and  has established itself as one Europe’s top conventions as well. It is also the centerpiece of the International

I’m sure others have mused on this in the past but it dawned on me today that Minecraft is by far and away the most successful casual game on the planet right now. What started out as a simple bedroom code project amongst friends has grown into an international goliath spawning memes, clones and bucketloads