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Minecraft: Story Mode
File:Minecraft Story Mode Logo.png
Developer(s)Telltale Games
Platform(s)Microsoft Windows, OS X, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, Xbox One, Wii U, iOS, Android
Genre(s)Single player
Mode(s)Adventure

Minecraft: Story Mode is an upcoming, stand-alone episodic adventure game being developed by Telltale Games in collaboration with Mojang, the developers of Minecraft. The first episode is scheduled for release within 2015, with subsequent episodes to follow. The game will be released on Microsoft Windows, OS X, PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4, Xbox 360 and Xbox One, Wii U (the first time a Minecraft game has been released for a Nintendo platform), as well as iOS and Android devices.

The idea of the game came out of Telltale's work on a similar adventure game that expanded upon an existing video game franchise, Tales from the Borderlands, as well as the opportunity to tell a story in the otherwise-open ended nature of Minecraft. The game will center around a newbie Minecraft player Jesse as he and his allies attempt to save their Minecraft world.

Gameplay

Minecraft: Story Mode will be an episodic adventure game similar to Telltale's previous titles such as The Walking Dead. The player will collect items, solve puzzles, and talk to non-player characters though conversation trees to learn about the story and determine what to do next. Like other Telltale Games, decisions that the player makes will impact events in the current and later episodes.[1] However, unlike Telltale's previous games that tend to carry more mature or emotional overtones including the death of major characters, Minecraft: Story Mode is aimed as a family-friendly title, so the decisions will still be pivotal and emotional but will not involve mature imagery or themes.[1] Elements of crafting and building, central to Minecraft, will be included in the gameplay.[1]

Story

Minecraft: Story Mode will be presented as within a game of Minecraft; the Minecraft characters are the avatars of (fictional) players at their computers as they participate in the game together. The main player-character is named Jesse, who sets out on a journey with his friends within the Minecraft world to find The Order of the Stone–four adventurers who slayed an Ender Dragon–in order to save the video game world. Jesse is described as newbie player of Minecraft still learning how to learn to build and craft but passionate about the Minecraft world.[2] The player will be able to customize Jesse's Minecraft avatar, including choice of gender; as such, the male version will be voice by Patton Oswalt, while the female avatar will be voiced by Catherine Taber.[3] Other characters within the Minecraft world include the humans Petra, Axel, Olivia, and Lucas, and a pig named Reuben; Stauffer said that the human characters as a whole represent the different types of players that play Minecraft.[2] In addition to Oswalt, the game's main characters are portrayed by Brian Posehn, Ashley Johnson, Scott Porter, Martha Plimpton, Dave Fennoy, Corey Feldman, Billy West and Paul Reubens.[4] The game will include a number of locations that exist in the real version of Minecraft that some players have difficulty accessing, including the Nether and The End.[2]

Telltale Job's Stauffer stated that the game's story will be aimed as family-friendly, similar to the films The Goonies or Ghostbusters;[1] their intended content would be equivalent to a PEGI-12 rating.[2] The story is also aimed to be accessible to both existing players of Minecraft - both novice and advanced players - and to new audiences outside of the game.[1]

Development

The idea for Minecraft: Story Mode came around the end of 2012 when Telltale was engaged in work for Tales from the Borderlands, an episodic series based on the Borderlands series. The idea of developing stories around other established video game franchises led the team to brainstorm the idea for a Minecraft-related game, given that the game was essentially a "blank canvas" for storytelling, according to Job Stauffer, and would create an interesting challenge.[1] Telltale began negotiations with Mojang in early 2013, and began work on the title shortly thereafter.[1] Stauffer noted that Microsoft's acquisition of Mojang was not a factor in the game's development, as their interaction with Mojang began well before Microsoft's offers.[1]

Telltale opted to create a new main character of Jesse for Minecraft: Story Mode instead of using default "Steve" character from Minecraft, feeling that they did not want to attempt to rewrite how players already saw this character in the game.[5]

Minecraft: Story Mode was formally announced in December 2014 as a collaboration project between Mojang and Telltale Games; the announcement was presented as an interactive adventure game named "Info Quest II".[6] Its first trailer was released during the Minecon convention in early July 2015.[4] The game is planned for a five-episode series for release on Microsoft Windows, OS X, iOS, Android, PlayStation and Xbox consoles by late 2015;[7][8] Telltale has also confirmed that they will release the game for the Wii U, representing the first time a Minecraft game has been released on a Nintendo platform.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i Webster, Andrew (August 26, 2015). "Giving Minecraft a story". The Verge. Retrieved August 27, 2015.
  2. ^ a b c d Dredge, Stuart (July 4, 2015). "New Minecraft: Story Mode details revealed at Minecon 2015". The Guardian. Retrieved August 27, 2015.
  3. ^ Marchiafava, Jeff (August 28, 2015). "Minecraft: Story Mode". Game Informer. Retrieved August 28, 2015.
  4. ^ a b Albert, Brian (July 4, 2015). "First Minecraft: Story Mode Details Revealed at Minecon". IGN. Ziff Davis. Retrieved August 28, 2015.
  5. ^ Stewart, Keith (December 19, 2014). "Minecraft: Story Mode spin-off game announced by Mojang". The Guardian. Retrieved August 27, 2015.
  6. ^ Murphy, David (December 18, 2015). "Telltale Games, Mojang Team Up for 'Minecraft: Story Mode'". PC Magazine. Retrieved August 27, 2015.
  7. ^ Copeland, Wesley (December 18, 2014). "Telltale and Mojang Announce Minecraft: Story Mode". IGN. Retrieved August 27, 2015.
  8. ^ Yin-Poole, Wesley (December 18, 2014). "Minecraft: Story Mode is an episodic series from Telltale". Eurogamer. Retrieved August 27, 2015.
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