Minecraft creator Notch says that he 'basically announced minecraft 2' with a Twitter poll and a commitment to making a spiritual successor
Original Minecraft creator Markus «Notch» Persson has stated on Twitter that his next game will be a Minecraft spiritual successor and that he "basically announced minecraft 2." Notch had run a Twitter poll asking followers to weigh in on whether he should keep his in-development project's current direction, or put it on the shelf to make something more like Minecraft.
Notch's in-development project was a roguelike spin on classic first person dungeon crawlers like Wizardry, Grimrock, or Eye of the Beholder. On New Year's Day, Notch put out a poll asking followers whether he should keep going in that direction, or switch gears. «I gots to thinking that maybe there are people who like my work but do not share my taste in retro nostalgia and would prefer for me to make a spiritual successor thing to Minecraft,» he wrote. «And I mean sure, I'd take that cash.»
At the time of writing, «make minecraft 2 boomer» is leading «i love uncursing potions» by a commanding 78% to 22% with four days to go. In follow up tweets, Notch insisted that he was "100% serious about all that, btw," and that he «basically announced minecraft 2.» He further stated that, «I also intend to do this in a way that in no way tried [sic] to sneakily infringe on the incredible work the Mojang team is doing and that Microsoft is successfully doing the microsoft shittification about.
»And I respect them for doing that. It's their job. And they, from what I understand, let the studio do things their way, which seems very fair to me."
Notch sold Mojang to Microsoft in 2014 for $2.5 billion, parting ways with the game and the company. In the years since, his reputation as a game developer has been eclipsed by one as a right wing partisan, making bizarre, insensitive, and often cruel or derogatory statements directed primarily at women and trans people. Microsoft and Mojang removed his name from the opening credits of Minecraft in response. Some Notch's statements in the past 10 years include:
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