Mojang has teamed up with Telltale Games for the development of a Story Mode for the massively popular Minecraft construction game.
In addition to Telltale Games, Mojang will also be working with members of the booming Minecraft community to be able to maintain the spirit of the game that has captured the interest of millions.
Minecraft: Story Mode will be an all-new, narrative-driven video game and will be released in episodes, similar to games such as The Walking Dead, The Wolf Among Us and Tales from the Borderlands, which is an example of collaboration that Telltale Games developed with another company, Gearbox Software.
Mojang added, as clarification, that the company has no intention of developing at "official" lore for Steve, nor does it plan on providing a detailed explanation on the existence of the Minecraft universe. The game, however, will utilize an original story that will be moved forward by the choices that players make.
The game will not be released as an expansion or add-on to Minecraft. Instead, it will be an entirely separate video game, but it will be utilizing familiar themes from the construction game. New characters will be introduced in the game, which Telltale Games said will be an "entirely original Minecraft experience."
Minecraft: Story Mode's first episode will be released within next year. The game will be made available for PlayStation consoles, Xbox consoles, Mac, PC, Android devices and iOS devices.
Mojang also said that the recent rumor on Minecraft 2 was only a joke.
"No really. It was a joke," Mojang said.
Telltale Games is celebrating its tenth year this 2014, and is releasing the final episodes for the aforementioned The Wolf Among Us and Season Two of The Walking Dead. For next year, Telltale Games will be releasing the rest of the episodes for Tales from the Borderlands and Game of Thrones, in addition to the premiere episode of Minecraft: Story Mode.
In September, Minecraft was purchased by Microsoft for a staggering $2.5 billion.
"It's not about the money. It's about my sanity," said Markus "Notch" Persson, the founder of Mojang, in relation to the sale of the company to Microsoft.
Persson seemed more relieved than triumphant upon the announcement of the deal, stating that the company had become his main source of stress and grief.
Persson refers to himself not as a CO or an entrepreneur, but rather as a "nerdy computer programmer." As such, an incident over the revision of the end-user license agreement of Minecraft that Persson had nothing to do with was something that made him "confused."
