$250,000-a-day Minecraft strikes indie game gold    The world-
building game has been in development for more than one year. It
is largely a one man project of experienced Swedish game maker,
Markus Persson (full credits here).  Minecraft drops the player
into a vast, pristine, and hostile world in which they must
build tools and find resources in order to survive. The focus is
on gameplay, and graphics are deliberately crude. Both single
player and multiplayer versions exist. In the multiplayer
version, players are free to either collaborate or compete.
Minecraft had been selling more than 4,000 copies a day for
several weeks, but sales spiked to new highs after a server
meltdown prompted Mojang to offer the game for free over the
weekend. Many of those who tried the game, which has been dubbed
'Minecrack' for its addictive quality, obviously liked it so
much that they purchased it as soon as the servers came back
online on Wednesday.  Indeed, Mojang has quite a habit of
finding triumph in adversity: an earl