Ever since its announcement, we've been wondering just how Telltale Games can make a narrative-driven adaptation of Minecraft. It's easily one of the strangest gaming match ups of recent times, but thanks to Games Industy.biz, we now know how the partnership came into being.
Interviewing the developer's new CEO Kevin Bruner, the publication asks how the deal came about. "Like most things start at Telltale, with everybody just geeking out about something and being real, genuine superfans - there's a lot of Minecraft advocates at Telltale," he begins. "it's really interesting because it's so open-ended", Bruner adds, referring to how Telltale's trademark design might fit into the blocky universe.
"In some ways it's a blank slate but there's also a lot built in to Minecraft that's about exploring and building and spending time with your friends and playing together," he explains, before stating that "when you think about it there's a lot to build off of".
There's another perspective that the CEO goes on to reference, though, in the form of fan-made stories: "The other thing is there seems to be a big appetite for Minecraft stories, if you look on Amazon and YouTube there's huge amounts of Minecraft narrative content out there as well so it's a pretty rich world to tell stories in."
We must admit that we weren't too keen on the idea of Minecraft: Story Mode, but the studio's new CEO certainly seems enthusiastic about the project. We suppose that we'll just have to wait and see what the team comes up with. Are you a big Minecraft fan? Are you excited to see how Telltale Games handles the property? Build us up and knock us down in the comments section below.
[source gamesindustry.biz]
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I'm beginning to get a feeling it will be a pre build minecraft adventure map were you control a youtuber playing minecraft (you control him in a narative way). I might be wrong...
@shogunrok @get2sammyb what do you think?
I don't like Minecraft but I'm really interested to see how this will work.
Why.
Telltale why did you sink this low.....
@darkswabber That's too good of an idea to come true, man!
I am excited about this since I'm a huge minecraft fan and I can see the potential in this.
Will it make me buy even more Lego Minecraft sets? probably
Eh idk I love telltale and almost all of their work especially since walking dead season 1 but this pairing seems a little strange (I'm admittedly not a mine craft guy). My only worry is that telltale is spreading themselves a little thin since they have both Game Of Thrones and Borderlands currently happening (both amazing so far by the way) and we know the walking dead season 3 is surely in the pipeline, and Im personally still crossing my fingers for a Wolf Among Us season 2. Hoping this minecraft partnership doesn't take away from the more interesting and mature projects us fans are accustomed to, but who knows we'll see how it comes out. I may just give it a go for telltales sake, but definitely approaching this one with caution.
I just don't get why people would spend money on this when there are so many narratives already free on Youtube? Of course some will, but I'd rather they put their abilities to something else. And I really wonder how this plays out w/ MS as the new owner? I keep waiting for Minecraft to change but it seems the same, I think the PS3 version even got a new update yesterday.
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