Years after his creation and studio Mojang to Microsoft for a formidable $2.5 billion, Minecraft creator Markus “Notch” Persson has, in his phrases, “principally introduced minecraft 2.”
The informal announcement got here through X after Markus posted a ballot asking followers what they want him to work on. The choices included carrying on engaged on a “conventional roguelike” with “tile-based first-person” gameplay, or whether or not he ought to ditch that concept in favour of a Minecraft successor.
I principally introduced minecraft 2.
I believed that possibly folks ACTUALLY do need me to make one other sport that is tremendous much like the primary one, and I am loving engaged on video games once more.
I do not tremendous duper care precisely which sport I make first (or even when I make extra), however I do know…
— notch (@notch) January 3, 2025
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Replying to a fan after the ballot was carried out, Notch offered a prolonged tweet revealing {that a} religious follow-up to Minecraft is within the works.
“I principally introduced minecraft 2,” Notch instructed the person. “I believed that possibly folks ACTUALLY do need me to make one other sport that’s tremendous much like the primary one, and I’m loving engaged on video games once more.”
“I don’t tremendous duper care precisely which sport I make first (or even when I make extra), however I do know I’m making one, so I figured I’d completely be keen to offer it an sincere shot within the type of a religious successor to minecraft and put up a ballot about it.”
Notch goes on to say we desires to be “clear and sincere about it” as a result of religious successors “are normally form of…you already know…washed up.” Notch admits that he’s a bit afraid his new sport will find yourself being precisely that.
Notch, after all, hasn’t launched a sport since he bought Mojang to Microsoft over a decade in the past, regardless of creating a brand new studio. That sale can be the explanation the brand new sport can’t be referred to as Minecraft 2.
Whereas the brand new sport will primarily be Minecraft 2, Notch does make i very clear that he gained’t be stepping on Mojang’s toes: “so I additionally intend to do that in a manner that under no circumstances tried to sneakily infringe on the unbelievable work the Mojang group is doing and that Microsoft is efficiently doing the microsoft shittification about.”
