With the Minecraft Legends launch date across the nook, had the prospect to talk with developer Mojang all concerning the technique recreation spin-off whereas at GDC 2023 in San Francisco, and we requested if the colossal crafting recreation goes to maintain increasing into different genres, and received an fascinating reply off the again of Minecraft Legends.
We spoke with principal design director Craig Leigh after our Minecraft Legends gameplay preview wrapped up, which lined each the marketing campaign and PvP, and requested if Mojang needs to maintain transplanting Minecraft into completely different genres.
“Inside Mojang, we’re at all times trying to create new experiences however on the planet of the issues that Minecraft gamers love to do,” Leight tells through the Minecraft Legends preview occasion. “You’ll see in Minecraft Legends there’s nonetheless constructing, proper? Nevertheless it’s barely completely different, you’re nonetheless constructing big bases however differently.”
We’ve already seen Minecraft sort out the Telltale-style narrative journey recreation and the Diablo-like dungeon crawler, so it is smart that Minecraft Legends gained’t be the top of those spin-offs. That mentioned, Leigh makes it clear that Mojang isn’t coming for each style, as an alternative going with their very own cool concepts and what works for the sequence.
“So it’s not that we’re making an attempt to overcome every style. For us it’s all about enjoyable, and making new experiences within the universe that gamers wish to play. So we thought, ‘Properly, wouldn’t it’s enjoyable should you had been a commander with troops attacking issues.’
“And so, to be trustworthy, I don’t know what’s subsequent,” Leigh says. “It will depend on what sort of expertise we wish to create. However we at all times need it to be within the universe, we at all times need it to be tremendous accessible.”
Microsoft and Mojang have had approachability on the core of Minecraft for a very long time as effectively, and Minecraft Legends isn’t any exception with its totally realised crossplay, which means you possibly can play on any platform with gamers from throughout the sandbox recreation’s group.
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