Saudade inspires student to build school in electronic game
Posted: Sat Dec 07, 2024 4:52 am
In times of isolation, anything goes to ease the longing without putting everyone's health at risk and following the fundamental rule to flatten the Covid-19 contamination curve: stay home as much as possible. The way that 15-year-old high school freshman Lucas Werneck has found to reconcile his longing for school and the people he lives with the quarantine has been to recreate every detail of the school's physical structure through an electronic game, which allows you to build three-dimensional blocks.
Using the mobile version of Minecraft (Pocket Edition) and texture resources, in less than three months, Lucas has already reproduced the facade of all the facilities that make up the Jardim Ambiental unit of Colégio Positivo, in Curitiba. “Since I was a child, between the ages of 8 and 10, I always liked building in Minecraft, but over time I stopped playing. Now, with the quarantine, I took the opportunity to get back to it. And the first thing that came to my mind to build, which I remembered well, was the school”, he says.
Building a little each day, Lucas also recreated several belarus telemarketing list environments with great detail, such as the bilingual building, the library, the classroom and several common areas. “One of the resources I used the most were the textures that allow for shadow and depth effects, but I can’t say exactly how many blocks I’ve made, because the resources on my cell phone are limited,” he explains. “For example, I separated the entire space of the library and decorated the inside. But the sports courts only have the walls – I still need to do the floor. The same goes for the pool, which also only has the space around it,” he describes. Lucas’ goal is to finish building the entire school and the surrounding areas most frequented by him and his friends, such as the gas station, the bakery and the skate park. “There’s still a long way to go, but when I’m done I’d like to be able to send everything to the school as a way of paying tribute to everyone who works and studies there, who I miss a lot,” he reveals.
Lucas’ mother, analyst Fernanda Maulepes, says she was surprised by the importance of school in her son’s life. “It was a childhood game in which he used to create our house, the beach house, the mall – and seeing him recreate school was a huge surprise, because it portrayed the longing for what he experienced and the expectation he has to return,” she believes. “I had a lot of expectations about the first year of high school. That it would be more difficult, that he would need to study more. Suddenly, Lucas was taken away from all of that, with no date to return, no prediction of what will happen and, obviously, this causes anxiety. As a mother, I try to do everything to calm him down, but even we, the parents, are lost,” she confesses. Working from home, Fernanda experiences her son’s expectation of returning day after day. “With the quarantine, I changed my perspective. I discovered that he likes being in this school environment. It took this to happen for me, as a mother, to open my eyes and see how important the school environment is for him,” she acknowledges.
Using the mobile version of Minecraft (Pocket Edition) and texture resources, in less than three months, Lucas has already reproduced the facade of all the facilities that make up the Jardim Ambiental unit of Colégio Positivo, in Curitiba. “Since I was a child, between the ages of 8 and 10, I always liked building in Minecraft, but over time I stopped playing. Now, with the quarantine, I took the opportunity to get back to it. And the first thing that came to my mind to build, which I remembered well, was the school”, he says.
Building a little each day, Lucas also recreated several belarus telemarketing list environments with great detail, such as the bilingual building, the library, the classroom and several common areas. “One of the resources I used the most were the textures that allow for shadow and depth effects, but I can’t say exactly how many blocks I’ve made, because the resources on my cell phone are limited,” he explains. “For example, I separated the entire space of the library and decorated the inside. But the sports courts only have the walls – I still need to do the floor. The same goes for the pool, which also only has the space around it,” he describes. Lucas’ goal is to finish building the entire school and the surrounding areas most frequented by him and his friends, such as the gas station, the bakery and the skate park. “There’s still a long way to go, but when I’m done I’d like to be able to send everything to the school as a way of paying tribute to everyone who works and studies there, who I miss a lot,” he reveals.
Lucas’ mother, analyst Fernanda Maulepes, says she was surprised by the importance of school in her son’s life. “It was a childhood game in which he used to create our house, the beach house, the mall – and seeing him recreate school was a huge surprise, because it portrayed the longing for what he experienced and the expectation he has to return,” she believes. “I had a lot of expectations about the first year of high school. That it would be more difficult, that he would need to study more. Suddenly, Lucas was taken away from all of that, with no date to return, no prediction of what will happen and, obviously, this causes anxiety. As a mother, I try to do everything to calm him down, but even we, the parents, are lost,” she confesses. Working from home, Fernanda experiences her son’s expectation of returning day after day. “With the quarantine, I changed my perspective. I discovered that he likes being in this school environment. It took this to happen for me, as a mother, to open my eyes and see how important the school environment is for him,” she acknowledges.