Julian Gough

I got to this site from the Minecraft credits, and I want to say, thanks Mr. Gough, that dialogue was amazing. It was worth waiting a year and a half for. I bet the millions of people that play Minecraft will also appreciate it. Thanks again. A diamond for you, sir!

Hi Julian
Well done on the Minecraft text. Nathan here who's a minecraft fanatic salutes you too. Our fav bit: The champion, the adventurer, had come far, done great deeds, changed the world around them with the sheer strength of their will, the sweat of their brow, and the might of their axe. But now, the hero's greatest feat accomplished, they departed wordlessly from that shore of endstone and haze. Your great feat. Well done. Hope all are well in Berlin.
John your cous.
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Sir... that endgame text was deep. It actually put me in a trance - I spent the next 2 or 3 minutes of my life just staring at my computer screen, trying to figure out what the heck they were talking about, my mind racing, simply speechless and awestruck.
To paraphrase Alexander Hamilton, you, sir, are a mad beast of a writer.
(Meant positively. I don't know if Irishmen use slang like "mad beast" these days.)

Um. I'm not an author, but yeah. Big fan of the text, just sayin'. Many, many people were on the EDGE of their seats, believe me, and read all that. It was awesome. Really made me think, y'know?
I've got part of it printed on the wall of my room! XD
Thank you~

No, no, thank YOU!

Only the best of the best ever gets onto the wall of my room.

wow i loved the minecraft ending. i do not know if thif was the desired effect but after reading it. i thought "wow i am wasting my life" then promtly began writing a novel :)

Another player who just finished Minecraft and had a pseudo-religious experience, googled your name and wound up here :)

The major adrenaline rush of slaying a dragon, and the afterglow of endorphines create a perfect soil to plant that flower of double-edged fantasy that you wrote. Well played, Julian (& Notch, etc.!). It's kinda creepy and exhilarating at the same time--having such playful yet meaningful words set in my mind at an almost hypnotic state... It set my mind on fire and i got a little closer to bringing the universe into focus--i love those moments. Next was a walk to the kitchen where i could smell the emotions of the room in each breath and feel the depth of the space around me, like i did as a little kid, and my body felt aligned. I wish we could call up inspiration and clarity like that at will, without the use of crutches like video games or religion. ...And we could all Minecraft in the real world! o_o (metaphorically!)

I was wondering what reading materials you think influenced your Minecraft ending? Have you been reading Conversations with God, by Neale Donald Walsch? I thought i picked up on some of that... although there seems to be a lot of synchronicity going on lately so i wouldn't be surprised if not. And, sure, you should. With a grain of salt, as always ;) I read that interview with Tom Chatfield, and put The Hero with a Thousand Faces, by Joseph Campbell on my reading list :) Recommend any others? ...i just threw Mark Twain on the list, in afterthought ;)

"Curiouser and curiouser!" -Alice, In Wonderland

I just read through the end credits for the third or fourth time and decided to look you up...I have to say, I love it, it puts a lot of thoughts I was already having to words, and extends them further.

From what I've learned from physics, mathematics, computer science, etc., you could theoretically describe everything in the universe as an immense number (every x digits would be the start of the next particle, it would then list it's position, momentum, etc.) as easily as it can be represented as a multidimensional space of particles and energy and space.

It it exists as it does because the information can be represented this way. I believe existence was we know it is "the universe...reading its own code" in a specific way, and it exists because it is conceivable.

Hi Julian,

"Who are we? Once we were called the spirit of the mountain. Father sun, mother moon, Ancestral Spirits, animal spirits, Jinn, Ghosts, The green man. Then gods, demons, Angels, Poltergeists, Aliens, extraterrestrials, Leptons, quarks, the words change, we do not change."

When you say "we", you're part of the "we" isn't it !?

I perfectly hear you and get your message, no need for a cage of words, we can speak together the naked truth.

As you certainly know it, I am not part of the "we", I am servant of your Lord, the Lord guides my steps and make me see what most of the people cannot see.

Like others here, I just finished the End in Minecraft and googled 'Julian Gough' to arrive here after reading your beautiful prose. Much food for thought. Interconnectedness. It all feeds into the heaven and hell we create for ourselves in the persistence of the last and strongest-firing neurons. Time for Spambo to put himself to bed and for Sam to wake up in a different life. Thank you!

Good day Julian and others,

I too have just finished minecraft (on hardcore mode). I saw bits and pieces of the ending, but now I got to witness it myself in its entirety. It realy has my brain going overbord, and maybe I dig too deep into it, but I have so much of these ideas floating in my head, and then a random guy (sorry Julian) from a random game lays them in front of me. It's mindboggling

Lately (last two years) I've realy thought about reality, and how we percieve it, and what that perception is influencing that reality. Also, the mentioning of Extraterrestials, Angels and Deamons, it realy makes me think to what I know about what is out there.

One question: How do you came up with this text? Was it in inspiration, or a build up in knowledge in your life, or was it just something you thought people can relate to? What was your meaning about it? Or does a writer never tells?

Ow, and one more question (pretty please?!), what were those words unreadable:
"Sometimes I do not care. Sometimes I wish to tell them, this world you take for truth is merely XXXXX and XXXXXXX, I wish to tell them that they are XXXX in the XXXXXX. They see so little in reality, in their long dream."

Thanks for you story,

Greeting, Rick