James Wright, Joe Ciappa, and a gamer known as Tempusmori of the site and Minecraft server Minecrafta2z.net, created this mind-blowing homage. They first started off with building a life-sized GameBoy in Minecraft, which they could use to emulate any Nintendo handheld game they wanted, including Pac-Man and Space Invaders.
The screen on the GameBoy is also 1:1 in size, measuring 160 blocks across and 144 blocks tall. That means every screen was recreated pixel-by-pixel with 23,040 blocks. Each frame was created with dyed-wool blocks (oh, all those harvested, naked virtual sheep) and snapped up with a screenshot from above. After taking each screenshot, the team of three would have to manually shift every block for the next screen of the side-scrolling action, and repeat the process all over again. The only thing that was sequenced was the music using Note Blocks.
The video you see is actually made a total of 800 shots complied in a moviemaker, each set to appear for 0.165 of a second. The project took a total of four weeks, 7-days a week, and six to seven work hours a day.
[Minecrafta2z via Kotaku and Engadget]
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