Minecraft is a sandbox game developed by Mojang and first released in full in 2011, where players explore, build and survive in blocky worlds. The hurt sound is one of its original in-game audio cues, played when the player character takes damage, and it became widely recognised through countless gameplay videos, streams and edits shared online. Because almost every player has heard it during a failed run, it still works as an instant shorthand for taking a hit or losing, even outside Minecraft itself.