Children’s Quarter Members, Creative Active Lives have created their own private, secure non-profit Minecraft server for neurodiverse children and young people. The aim is to allow Club members to co-design their world, builds, learn new skills around design and coding, co-create sessions and make the world their own.
Multiplayer in Minecraft enables multiple players to interact and communicate with each other on a single world. The Mine Mania server creates a private, safeguarded space for this.
Mine Mania stands for friendly, inclusive, safeguarded online minecraft games. The world is created by Club Members, for Club Members. Child-led, co-designed and co-created by the members, some mods, plug-ins and mini-games coded by members, server set up and maintained by the Member-led admin team, beta-tested by Members and weekly club attendees. Members can also just join to play and have fun, they do not have to do any development work if they don’t want to. Membership is paid by a monthly subscription. It is primarily for neurodiverse children and young people, but you do not need a diagnosis and all children in the age range are welcome.
Creative Active Lives CIC is the West Midlands based non-profit organisation which provides inclusive, accessible entertainment and educational activities. Check their website for the huge range of enrichment and playful activities and workshops they can offer.
The group has been running weekly Minecraft Clubs since 2019 in partnership with Club Minecraft. The new server will support the group’s weekly bookable Autism Friendly Minecraft clubs, and mean club members can have 24/7 access to the play world and mini games.
The Minecraft offer from Creative Active Lives includes:
- Weekly online socials for neurodiverse children and young people (and there are plans to pilot in-person socials)
- Hosting for private worlds and tutors to create community co-designed and build town centre/High Street replicas, landmark building replicas, virtual landscapes, alternative meetings
- Pop-up LAN gaming areas at community events for Minecraft, Among Us, Rocket League and more
- Youth groups /school sessions
- Coding Clubs.
If you want to discuss an idea, then email Rachel at Creative Active Lives (and if you think Children’s Quarter or Fit for All might be able to help make it reality, then please let us know too!)