A few too many posters and large-print check-lists and collections of half-ideas, added to a few one-use-only word searches, mazes and suchlike puzzles, don't disguise the fact that the rest either recaps what the fan will already know, or provides something they may not actually require. However, to me, even with this, the title seemed a little too inconsequential. They might be illustrated with Minecraft blocks and referred to with more technical options than we would remember them, but such simple ideas as paper/scissors/stone that need actual face-to-face interaction are brought to an audience that is supposedly never doing anything like that in the playground, let alone the lounge at home. So in amongst the data and memories of certain vlog episodes, you get suggestions of things to do with real people, and quite often, to my surprise, they're actually quaintly old-fashioned. But there's only so far that such a book can cover online, live time, technical things. He also likes building things, ganging up with his friends in challenges, and doing other things in the world of the games. Yes, as befits such a technical source you also need to download other things – there's a template for this, one for that, the design to ice a Stampy cake – and Stampy likes cake. To which the obvious response is this book.Īnd the tie-in website. Or, as you(r) parents would say, something that wastes too much time on something that will never be real or amount to anything. On the whole they are creative, open-world titles, that can allow for something a bit more constructively immersive than the traditional kind. Stampy Cat is only elephantine in that he has had a mammoth 23 million different witnesses to his creations, and while they mostly regard Minecraft they do feature other computer games. So why does this book from a Youtube star of Minecraft tasks, pranks and other activities, remind me of a certain TV programme that used to invite us to turn off and do something more active instead? For one thing, TV is so last century – now it's all about Minecraft and other computer game worlds, and often second-screening between different new media at the same time. If you still think of Stampy as the elephant in The Simpsons, you need to get with it.

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