Looking for some support in designing a solution for a school; they're looking to get ~30 Pi's with Minecraft and Python, locked away in the server room to prevent damage, with students remoting into them via VNC to built and test code in game.
This doesn't feel like a practical solution to me, which is why I have suggested getting something like the Pi-Top instead; but the school aren't keen on paying out so much for a device that the students might (and probably will) break. My initial thought was a multi user terminal idea on a dedicated server, but obviously that has cost implications and would require the purchase of Minecraft licensing too. I know Minecraft CAN be run via RealVNC after some tweaking, but is it workable in a classroom environment? Not to mention that students will need to save their code, ideally to their Google drives- which adds another layer of complexity.
Have any of you come across this before and how would you suggest going forward?
