Jonathan Fish and his brother Adam put a Maricopa twist on their love of the computer game Minecraft Education.
Together, they rebuilt one of the city’s most iconic landmarks — Copper Sky — perfectly to scale and missing nary a detail from computers in their Tortosa home. Minecraft is the highest-grossing video game of all time.
Both know the city’s recreation center well, having worked as lifeguards at the pool.
Jonathan, 19, was the youngest ever teacher at Desert Sunrise High School and today is substitute teaching there and preparing for a bilingual mission to Utah on behalf of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He was believed to be the youngest teacher in Maricopa Unified School District history at age 17.
“We just thought this would be a fun side project,” said Jonathan, who grew up playing Minecraft with Adam, who preferred not to be interviewed for the story.
Asked how he would describe the project, Jonathan said, “It’s a parody of Copper Sky in the form of horror movie trailer. A lot of inside jokes. I showed it to my coworkers, and they laughed.”
He said they started building from the pool’s pump room, which with a chuckle he called “a pretty scary place,” speaking from personal experience as a lifeguard.
The Fish brothers started playing the game when it came out in 2011.
Reaction to their Copper Sky redesign ala Minecraft has been good, he said.
“Some people told me to start building a whole city, but I’m afraid that would now be a little ambitious,” Fish said.
His church mission will take him to Mexico City this year where he will be immersed in the Spanish language. Then, he said he will travel to Salt Lake City and proselytize on the church’s behalf as a missionary to Spanish-speaking people there.
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