Minecraft creator Markus Persson has stated he “principally introduced Minecraft 2” after polling his social media followers on what sport they’d like him to make subsequent.
Two choices have been listed within the ballot: a roguelike blended with a tile-based first-person dungeon crawler, and a a religious successor to Minecraft, which within the ballot was known as “Minecraft 2.” On the time of this text’s publication, 81% had picked Minecraft 2 after 282,968 votes.
Sincere and bonafide request for suggestions for as soon as:
The brand new sport I am passionately engaged on is presently set to be a conventional roguelike (i.e. ADOM, nethack, and so forth) blended with a tile based mostly first particular person dungeon crawler (ie Legend of Grimrock (esp 2), Eye of the Beholder)
However…
— notch (@notch) January 1, 2025
In a subsequent tweet, Notch admitted he “principally introduced Minecraft 2,” and insisted he was “100% severe” in regards to the ballot.
“I assumed that perhaps folks ACTUALLY do need me to make one other sport that is tremendous just like the primary one, and I am loving engaged on video games once more,” he continued.
“I do not tremendous duper care precisely which sport I make first (or even when I make extra), however I do know I am making one, so I figured I might completely be keen to present it an trustworthy shot within the type of a religious successor to Minecraft and put up a ballot about it.
“My intentions are to be clear and trustworthy about it, saying that religious successors are often form of… you realize… washed up. Tragic. The issues I am fearing my subsequent sport goes to be anyway and attempt to push myself to keep away from. So why not do the factor that individuals DO need and are keen to present me, in some way, even MORE money for.
“I intend for the cash to the [sic] spent for good, however my god have I discovered I fail rather a lot. Successful is failing till you make your self succeed.
“Oh and I additionally very a lot worth being a person of my phrase, so I additionally intend to do that in a method that by no means tried [sic] to sneakily infringe on the unimaginable work the Mojang workforce is doing and that Microsoft is efficiently doing the Microsoft shittification about.
“And I respect them for doing that. It is their job. They usually, from what I perceive, let the studio do issues their method, which appears particularly reasonable to me.”
Based mostly on that, then, Notch is certainly getting down to work on a religious successor to Minecraft a decade after promoting Mojang to Microsoft for $2.5 billion. Mojang continues to work on the eternally widespread Minecraft, after all, placing out a number of updates every year throughout all of the platforms the sandbox sport is offered on. Minecraft is formally the best-selling online game of all time, with an unimaginable 300 million copies bought. Microsoft has made no indication that it intends to launch a Minecraft 2, which comes as no shock given how widespread Minecraft stays. Maybe that leaves the door open for Notch to fill a niche from the unique creator.
As Notch famous himself, it stays to be seen whether or not this ‘Minecraft 2’ ever sees the sunshine of day. Since promoting to Microsoft, the Swedish developer has began and stopped numerous video games, together with area sandbox sport 0x10c (pronounced “Ten to the C”). Nonetheless, in one other tweet, Notch stated the percentages of him ending initiatives now are larger than they have been as a result of he has staff he feels liable for.
In later tweets, Notch answered questions from followers on social media about this Minecraft 2, and insisted he doesn’t wish to use something “too just like the stuff I bought,” on this new sport. He additionally stated his Minecraft 2 wouldn’t be a narrative sport, suggesting a brand new sandbox of some type. “I might make an identical sport [to Minecraft] based mostly on what I believe the viewers that claims they need that sport would possibly take pleasure in,” he defined. “Most likely do early entry to ensure we’re on monitor.”
I imply finest I’ve obtained in the meanwhile is Adventureland, so yeah no concept
— notch (@notch) January 3, 2025
Notch even went on to say that if Minecraft ever wished him to make an official Minecraft 2 and each events agreed on phrases, “I might completely be keen to to that.”
“I might even give them a a lot greater share than I might really feel obliged to only to make it clear I am not doing it with sick intent,” he continued, earlier than including: “However I will be a bitch to work with.”
It appears unlikely that Microsoft would work with Notch, given it eliminated his identify from the opening credit of Minecraft following varied controversial statements he made within the years following the sale of Mojang.
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