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UW-Stout Alumna Digs Her Career Designing for Minecraft
10 Nov 2020
Eau Claire, News
Growing up, Jesselyn Lonneman loved building virtual worlds while playing one of her favorite video games, Minecraft.
Like the millions who have played it — Minecraft is the most popular video game of all time — she loved the variety of challenges she faced and the creativity it fostered in her. In the game, players mine materials and use their imaginations to build an adventure in a fantasy land they can modify.
“One of my favorite things to do was to build in creative mode on servers,” said Lonneman, of Pine Island, Minn., noting that servers offer huge online worlds for players to explore.
About a decade later, Lonneman has turned her childhood love for video games, and Minecraft in particular, into a career.
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