Authentic Minecraft creator Markus “Notch” Persson has acknowledged on Twitter that his subsequent recreation might be a Minecraft non secular successor and that he “mainly introduced minecraft 2.” Notch had run a Twitter ballot asking followers to weigh in on whether or not he ought to preserve his in-development mission’s present route, or put it on the shelf to make one thing extra like Minecraft.
Notch’s in-development mission was a roguelike spin on basic first particular person dungeon crawlers like Wizardry, Grimrock, or Eye of the Beholder. On New 12 months’s Day, Notch put out a ballot asking followers whether or not he ought to preserve getting in that route, or swap gears. “I gots to considering that possibly there are individuals who like my work however don’t share my style in retro nostalgia and would favor for me to make a non secular successor factor to Minecraft,” he wrote. “And I imply positive, I would take that money.”
On the time of writing, “make minecraft 2 boomer” is main “i like uncursing potions” by a commanding 78% to 22% with 4 days to go. In comply with up tweets, Notch insisted that he was “100% critical about all that, btw,” and that he “mainly introduced minecraft 2.” He additional acknowledged that, “I additionally intend to do that in a means that under no circumstances tried [sic] to sneakily infringe on the unimaginable work the Mojang group is doing and that Microsoft is efficiently doing the microsoft shittification about.
“And I respect them for doing that. It is their job. And so they, from what I perceive, let the studio do issues their means, which appears very reasonable to me.”
Notch offered Mojang to Microsoft in 2014 for $2.5 billion, parting methods with the sport and the corporate. Within the years since, his status as a recreation developer has been eclipsed by one with no consideration wing partisan, making weird, insensitive, and sometimes merciless or derogatory statements directed primarily at ladies and trans individuals. Microsoft and Mojang eliminated his identify from the opening credit of Minecraft in response. Some Notch’s statements previously 10 years embrace:
Taking a step again from that and simply calling balls and strikes right here, I don’t consider “mainly asserting minecraft 2” on Twitter is the very best transfer, particularly as soon as any preliminary buzz dies down. I do not know the small print of Notch’s cope with Microsoft, however equating a mission to a Minecraft sequel whereas additionally disparaging Microsoft in what is basically early advertising strikes me as a contractual no-no, a a method ticket to stop and desist-ville.
I additionally do not know what sort of urge for food there may be for a Minecraft non secular successor past Notch’s personal energetic Twitter following—a essentially self-selecting group given his pariah standing in a lot of the business. There are such a lot of video games embodied by Minecraft, is that this a non secular successor to Minecraft the survival expertise, Minecraft the inventive sandbox, or Minecraft the proto-Roblox modding and social platform? “Minecraft 2” could be all of these items when it is simply an concept you are throwing out on Twitter, however no matter Notch has in thoughts will wind up being extra restricted than a recreation that has been slowly constructed up over the course of 16 years.
And there are a ton of different Minecraft non secular successors already on the market and established to compete with: Terraria and Dragon Quest Builders are the closest examples, however relying on how strict your definition is, all the tree punching, base constructing survival style might rely. The roguelike dungeon crawler actually strikes me as a way more attention-grabbing recreation, and it is a surprisingly under-explored idea within the saturated roguelike house. But additionally: What is the level of taking a $2.5 billion buyout if you happen to’re simply going to shelve your questionably worthwhile ardour mission for what the group says it needs?