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Abertay University students recreate building on Minecraft — before ever setting foot on the campus © Supplied by Abertay University Sign up for our daily newsletter of the top stories in Courier country Thank you for signing up to The Courier daily newsletter Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up A group of Dundee students have recreated Abertay University using the popular videogame Minecraft to allow prospective applicants explore the campus during the coronavirus pandemic. Nine Masters students from the university’s School of Design and Informatics worked on t...

© Abertay University A replica of Abertay University has been created using the videogame Minecraft to allow potential applicants to explore its campus during the pandemic. Nine students from the university’s school of design and informatics came up with the solution, recreating the inside and outside of the institution. It took the team around six weeks to construct the replica, painstakingly recreating the layout of the university using more than 700,000 Minecraft blocks. The students behind the project are from the university’s MPPOP Game Development Preparation course, run in collabo...