Years after his creation and studio Mojang to Microsoft for a formidable $2.5 billion, Minecraft creator Markus “Notch” Persson has, in his phrases, “mainly 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 mainly introduced minecraft 2.
I believed that possibly individuals 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.
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 finished, Notch supplied a prolonged tweet revealing {that a} non secular follow-up to Minecraft is within the works.
“I mainly introduced minecraft 2,” Notch informed the consumer. “I believed that possibly individuals ACTUALLY do need me to make one other sport that’s tremendous just 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 provide it an trustworthy shot within the type of a non secular successor to minecraft and put up a ballot about it.”
Notch goes on to say we needs to be “clear and trustworthy about it” as a result of non secular successors “are normally type of……washed up.” Notch admits that he’s a bit afraid his new sport will find yourself being precisely that.
Notch, in fact, hasn’t launched a sport since he offered Mojang to Microsoft over a decade in the past, regardless of creating a brand new studio. That sale can also be the explanation the brand new sport can’t be known as Minecraft 2.
Whereas the brand new sport will basically be Minecraft 2, Notch does make i very clear that he received’t be stepping on Mojang’s toes: “so I additionally intend to do that in a approach that on no account tried to sneakily infringe on the unbelievable work the Mojang workforce is doing and that Microsoft is efficiently doing the microsoft shittification about.”
