Original Minecraft creator Markus “Notch” Persson has announced that his next project will be a spiritual successor Minecraft he even goes so far as to say that he has “basically announced Minecraft2.”
Just after New Year’s, the Minecraft Creator conducted a survey asking for honest feedback on whether he should continue his ongoing retro project – or shelve it for something more like a Minecraft successor.
As of this writing, the poll is overwhelmingly in favor of Notch making another game Minecraft with the response “make minecraft 2 boomer” dominating with almost 79% over the 21% in favor of continuing his retro project.
In recent years, Notch has been working on a game that he described as a roguelike take on classic first-person dungeon crawlers like Wizardry. Despite his passion for these types of games, he clearly started to wonder if he should do something else.
“I’m starting to think that there might be people out there who like my work but might not share my taste in retro nostalgia and would prefer if I made a spiritual successor to Minecraft,” Notch said. “And I mean, sure, I would take that money.”
A follow up post van Notch confirmed that the survey results prompted him to “actually announce Minecraft 2,” although it obviously won’t be called that and it obviously can’t be too similar to his original creation that he spent more than $2 billion on Microsoft has sold.
While Notch said “spiritual successors tend to be a bit… you know… washed up” and “tragic,” he is going to push himself past his fears and “do what people DO want and be willing to give me even MORE in some way.” give. cash for.”
“I also place great value on being a man of my word,” Notch clarified. “I also intend to do this in a way that does not in any way attempt to sneakily infringe on the incredible work that the Mojang team is doing and that Microsoft is successfully Microsoft-shittifying.”
The latter is certainly interesting because it is still questionable (and will probably remain so forever) what Notch’s buyout terms with Microsoft were. As with most business acquisitions, there is usually a non-compete clause.
Maybe Notch wasn’t allowed to make another one Minecraft-like game for ten years, a non-competitive period that would have just ended in the fall of last year. The timing of Notch’s poll and the move to create a Minecraft-style games, coupled with its clear disregard for Microsoft’s handling of its IP, are interesting to say the least.
“I respect them for doing that,” Notch said. “It’s their job. And from what I understand, they’re letting the studio do things their way, which seems very fair to me.
Mojang continues to support Minecraft to this day with regular updates and content releases and Microsoft wants to grow the brand. A live action Minecraft film will premiere this spring – read more about that here.