Minecraft University Alliance (MUA) is a public welfare organisation aiming to unite Minecraft enthusiasts from colleges and universities across China to jointly promote the ecological development of Minecraft in colleges and universities. So far, there are more than 200 collegiate Minecraft organisations joining MUA, covering all geographic regions of the country, spreading across most provinces, and including major Project 985 and 211 schools and a considerable number of other schools.
We are here to provide a platform for the exchange of gaming experience, community operation and development experience, and technology development experience, as well as a platform for the sharing of various university activities, major projects, and high-quality resources. Since its development in 2020, the University Alliance has actually been around Minecraft but is not limited to Minecraft, assuming the functions of socialising, organising, publicising, researching and developing with the main bodies of university students from university interest clubs.
Official website: https://www.mualliance.cn
Survey Report on Minecraft Organisations in Colleges and Universities
The report by visiting, asking the person in charge of each university Minecraft organisation, consulting the relevant person in charge of the Minecraft University Alliance, etc., to understand the current part of the university Minecraft organisations in China that have a certain scale and a more active atmosphere, to investigate the status quo of the domestic university Minecraft player organisations, and to carry out a brief summary research on the development mode of the university Minecraft organisations. On this basis, this report also discusses the development prospect of open sandbox game organisations under the university system and the practical application of open sandbox games to the concept of “metaverse”.
Download and view the full report: https://www.mualliance.cn/report
Union Authentication and Union Lobby
This system is developed and maintained by Shanghai Jiaotong University Minecraft Club and Central South University Minecraft Club, and is open to all member organisations of MUA as an interoperability technology project.
Union Authentication relies on open-source projects for development, and currently has access to the identity verification systems of 40+ organisations within the MUA, with more than 10,000 university Minecraft players using this system, which enables one account and interconnection and mutual recognition.
The Union Lobby is a technical work based on Union Authentication. By accessing the Union Lobby, students and alumnis from colleges and universities can directly access the Minecraft servers hosted by other college and university organisations through the Union Lobby without the need to manually look up the server address, while retaining the original access method. At present, there are more than twenty colleges and universities whose servers have accessed the union lobby and achieved mutual access.
University Alliance Teacons
The University Alliance Teacon is a regular Minecraft talk that has been held for 3 seasons and 19 sessions since 1 May 2022, with the aim of increasing the influence of the MUA on the Minecraft community and university alliance students by inviting famous youtubers and some of the best university Minecraft players to be the keynote speakers. The teacons also provide a way for MUA member organisations to share and learn from each other’s experiences on a regular basis.
Minecraft Creative Competition for Campus Students in the Yangtze River Delta
In September 2024, the 2024 Minecraft Creative Competition for Campus Students in the Yangtze River Delta was launched, hosted by the Shanghai Science and Technology Art Education Center and organized by the Shanghai Campus Esports Association and the Sports Education Department of Tongji University. Among the co-organizers, the Tongji University Minecraft Amethyst Student Club, the Fudan University Bedrock Club, and the Shanghai Jiao Tong University Minecraft Club participated in the planning, implementation, evaluation, and promotion of the event. The competition received a total of 145 entries from students at 45 higher education institutions and secondary and higher vocational schools across the Yangtze River Delta.
The competition featured two tracks: the “Red Genes” track and the “Path of Scientific and Technological Innovation” track. In the “Red Genes” track, participants were required to use Minecraft to recreate classic scenes or buildings from Chinese revolutionary history, allowing younger generations to understand history more intuitively through voxel-based creation and to carry forward the red genes. In the “Path of Scientific and Technological Innovation” track, participants needed to unleash their creativity and construct a blueprint for the path of scientific and technological innovation.
The finals were held in the Grand Auditorium of Tongji University. Through segments such as work presentations, creative explanations, and judges’ Q&A, the contestants demonstrated the connotation and value of the red spirit of contemporary university students and their beautiful vision for scientific and technological development through Minecraft, a voxel-based creative platform.
Pixel Sandbox Digital Twin Student Club Exchange Conference
On the evening of January 11, 2025, the 2024 Pixel Sandbox Digital Twin Student Club Exchange Conference was held in an online Minecraft server venue. The conference was hosted by the Sangzi Block Association of Huaqiao University, organized by the School of Internet of Things and Artificial Intelligence of Fujian Information Vocational and Technical College, the Minecraft Club of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and the Minecraft Club of Wenzhou Business College, and co-organized by clubs such as the Minecraft Starry Sky Club of Southwest University of Science and Technology.
This exchange conference was presented in the form of a “metaverse conference,” attracting more than 300 teachers, students, and digital twin enthusiasts from 98 universities at home and abroad, with more than 50,000 viewers watching the online live broadcast. Professor Jiang Feng, Vice Dean of the College of Mechanical Engineering and Automation of Huaqiao University, attended and delivered a speech. Teacher Cai Zhaohong, Secretary of the Youth League Committee of Fujian Information Vocational and Technical College, and Teacher Zhu Minghua (Zimin), Secretary of the Party Branch of Bilibili UP Hosts and one of Bilibili’s Top 100 UP Hosts, attended as specially invited guests.
During the exchange conference, student representatives from various universities shared projects such as National Teaching Achievement Awards, cooperative research topics with enterprises, public institutions, and government units, and gold award projects of the China International College Students’ Innovation Competition. They demonstrated students’ unique insights into the application of pixel sandbox engines in the field of digital twins and promoted exchanges among university student clubs.
In the interactive session, participating students actively asked questions and held in-depth discussions on the technical challenges, applications, and development trends of pixel sandbox engines. With their rich experience and professional knowledge, Teacher Zimin and Teacher Hua Xinjie answered questions about the integration of pixel sandbox engines with cutting-edge technologies, content creation, and scientific and technological innovation.
University reconstruction project
During the 2023 and 2024 Gaokao season, MUA collaborated with CCTV and the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League to release videos showcasing university reconstruction projects in Minecraft. The two videos received more than one million plays in total.
Joint contribution video with CCTV network: https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV12z4y1H7VU/
Joint contribution video with the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League: https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1Uz4y1H7mJ/
University Relay Survival
University Relay Survival is an intercollegiate Minecraft relay survival activity involving MUA member organisations. In each edition, a team from a different school is sent to relay the previous archive and create a video record, with the ultimate goal of building a university in the archive that also features the characteristics of each participating school. In the first season, there were a total of nine episodes and videos were released.
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