You could have seen the information, or just adopted Notch’s Twitter (Previously X..). After years of silence, the creator of Minecraft made a sudden point out of the opportunity of a “non secular successor to Minecraft”:
“Trustworthy and legit request for suggestions for as soon as: The brand new sport I’m passionately engaged on is presently set to be a standard roguelike (i.e. ADOM, nethack, and so on) combined with a tile based mostly first particular person dungeon crawler (ie Legend of Grimrock (esp 2), Eye of the Beholder)
However then I gots to pondering that possibly there are individuals who like my work however won’t share my style in retro nostalgia and would favor for me to make a non secular successor factor to Minecraft, and I imply positiveI’d take that money. So market analysis. I’d be completely happy to oblige both, which one would make you happier?”
After 1.5M views and 290K votes, with ineffective hours left to vote, Minecraft 2 is a tough winner.
Notch referred to as the opposite sport that misplaced “Kinda looks like stardew valley, however extra diagonal door kicking.” and talked about potions.
The official Planet Minecraft account famous, “Curious to see if this new mission will embrace group creativity like Minecraft has.” no matter how critical Notch is in regards to the ordeal.
Notch later assured us that in a barely sarcastic manner that he’s “100% critical about all that, btw.”
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