My daughter loves telling Minecraft stories when we are going for walks or in the car. They're long quite complicated stories about her, me, and her friends having various made up adventures in the Minecraft world. More often than not they'll spin off to include elements not possible in the game, but they always start in the Minecraft world.

It's a fantasy world that is more tangible to them than most, because they can dip in and out at will and explore it more.

I know for my own part, I can still remember part of the geography of various CIV games I played 10-15 years ago, and often elements of what played out.

It's the same with Minecraft - once you get games like this, where the spatial aspects of the game world hangs sufficiently together, we're very good at remembering it.

And what we're good at remembering, we have a better shot at describing well.

That makes it a comfortable, safe, but still exciting starting point.