Minecraft Maker Mojang Plans Spin-off Game

Minecraft maker Mojang plans a spin-off game

18 December 2014

Mojang, the Minecraft maker is developing an off-shoot game inspired by its block-building game.
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It is known as Minecraft: Story Mode and will be an episodic video game that takes place in the familiar Minecraft world however, it introduces new characters to the world.

Telltale Games, which has produced a number of episodic titles has developed the game.

The first episode will be available on consoles, computers and Macs in 2015, and also on Android devices.

So far, little information about what it could look like have been released. Mojang has created a brief game that is based on a browser called InfoQuest II to demonstrate what it could look like.

In a blogpost Mojang stated that the game would be developed with assistance of the Minecraft community.

It aimed to assure players that Story Mode would not be like the bloody and violent games Telltale has produced before now. Telltale's latest games include Tales from the Borderlands, The Wolf Among Us and games based on Game of Thrones and the zombie-themed thriller The Walking Dead.

"Telltale's game will be similar in the way it plays to Minecraft itself," said Mojang, "though it's a totally original design that is influenced by our game."

The news of Story Mode comes soon after Mojang released a finished version of its Scrolls card-based game of magic fighting.

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