Telltale, Mojang Partnering for Minecraft: Story Mode

Man this is dumb (but not in a good way). All about the money, I guess.

Can you win Minecraft? No. Can you win (ie: finish) a Telltale game? Yes.

Minecraft is not a game, it is a toy or a creation tool.

I like the new Telltale games, but they really really shouldn't be working on this much at once.

I think we may have gone too far.

@larrydavis: Technically if you kill the ender dragon you win minecraft, it is a game for WINNERS!

you even get an achievement for doing that

I did not see that coming.

What kind of story can be told from the minecraft universe? Granted I've never played minecraft, but I was under the impression that there wasn't really a story for it.

@bargainben: The countless years of the super successful Sonic comic book would say that it's worth indulging at the very least.

Well, at least they have the perfect engine to make bad-looking games.

I'm genuinely interested in who approached who. A knee-jerk reaction would assume that Microsoft approached Telltale, but then I see the Borderlands game, and I have to imagine Telltale went after that one themselves. Maybe they just have a form e-mail they send everywhere.

I can't wait for Telltale's version of Resident Evil and Deus Ex.

I'm not a Minecraft addict or anything but this sounds fun.

"Make your own fun" things are not games there level editors without a game to export to :^)

Notch won at life by creating Minecraft (itself being an abstracted simulacrum of life) so that everyone else can pretend they own a $70 million megamansion :P

Nobody can tell what Telltale is doing anymore.

What?

@bargainben: I don't think its being added to the game, just a Minecraft set Telltale game, called story mode to be cute. I wonder if it will do much better than their other series, it's not like GoT and The Walking Dead aren't popular. Maybe I'm underestimating Minecrafts popularity, but I don't think a seven year old thats into minecraft is going to want to play Telltale's style of game.

I hope this isn't a sign for what Microsoft has in mind for the future of Minecraft. They may be missing what it is that makes Minecraft great.

@49th: Big Kids too, Though I do like Telltale games but this got me way too excited when I read this was coming lol

It makes no sense and shouldn't exist but i will play it

First Thought: Wow, GB's April Fools joke must have fucked up royally to post 8 months after the fact.

This is fucking stupid.

Seriously, these are great news, i always wanted to try minecraft, but the idea of not having a certain goal turns me off..

This is why i love Starbound, it's a randomly generated game with a fun quest line, if you haven't tried starbound yet then i recommend checking it out.

Meanwhile..

Markus "Notch" Persson recently set a new record, this one outside of the gaming community: The Minecraft creator just bought a sprawling mansion in Beverly Hills, California, for $70 million.

It is the "highest price ever paid for a home in Beverly Hills," according to a press release from John Aaroe Group, the luxury real estate firm that sold the property. Curbed LA reports that Notch beat out none other than Jay-Z and Beyonce, among other interested parties, for the house.

@dizzyhippos: this makes it less of a game imo..

Wouldn't it be crazy if this was just a playable version of The Yogscast's "Shadow of Israphel" series? XD

There's more game in Minecraft than some new games these days.

Sweet! One of my favorite developers and games

That tweet sounds like something from Destiny =P Coming from Telltale Games, the Bo Jackson of videogames. I am going back a few years I know.

What a ridiculous statement.

Yep. This, pretty much. Here, we see the beginning of the end of Minecraft. While not my sort of thing, I could TOTALLY see why people were into it. Clearly Microsoft can't, and it'll be the end of the franchise.

Not the end of the concept, however. I think we're going to see another company with a clone or an evolved take on the original idea snatch the mantle from Minecraft in the coming years.

Well then, it will be interesting to see what they come up with I guess...

It's likely a reference to Minecraft's game modes. Within Minecraft you have Survival Mode (the default game, where you can do whatever you want [up to and including "beat the game". There is an actual ending to be had if one wishes for it]), Creative Mode (Where you have infinite of all the blocks, do not need to mine, can fly, and are invincible), and Adventure Mode (where you cannot break the vast majority of blocks, but can interact with the interactive blocks like levers, buttons, and the like). This being named Story Mode tells you exactly what audience they're expecting to be interested, I feel, and keeps to an internal theme.

It is, still, a pretty lame name, even knowing the rational behind it.

Well that's a partnering I never saw coming..

I'm not such a fan of Minecraft, but I am of Telltale. I'm curious to see what they do.

It's going to follow the tale of Steve, the eccentric billionaire, who decides to sell his miraculous creativity tool, his integrity, and his ideology in order to accrue more money and do fuck all. You beat it by giving up.

stop right there. This is complete madness. Wait... on second thought I approve, as you were.

Maybe the story will explain why anyone plays this game...

Don't forget the part where he slams another company for the exact thing only a few months before he does it.