Minecraft Legends: Creating a New Game

[MUSIC] Minecraft Legends is an action strategy game in which you unite the overworld mobs and command them and with the help of the allies, defeat a piglin invasion. You will recognize the environments and the creatures, but Minecraft Legends also introduces

A lot of new things, and we may or may not know what is true and what is myth. At Mojang Studios we want to make more experiences, new and different from what we have done so far, like we have a lot of possibilities and a lot of creativity in the studio to broaden

The experiences for our audience and our players of our games. Minecraft Legends is totally new, it’s a different experience, you do different things and so on but you’re still in the familiar universe of Minecraft and you feel at home but it’s

A new type of game and we hope to get more people to experience the wonderful world of Minecraft. The hero of this game, put quite simply, is you. This is not a story about a particular character, this is a story about you, and the events

Of the story unfold and there’s some characters in the story who need your help and they come to find you, and then give you the tools and kind of hope that you can literally save the overworld. No pressure! So, the whole idea with Minecraft Legends, of course, is that it is a legend.

So we aren’t necessarily saying that this is the history of the overworld, what we are trying to convey with this story is that it is one of many stories of the overworld. It’s a possibility, it’s a “what if”, it’s a bedtime story as we’ve shown in the trailer.

And like all great legends they start maybe with a kernel of truth but as those legends are passed down and the stories are told and retold, the teller will embellish certain details and the story will start to evolve.

So classic Minecraft players know that “mobs = bad” or “mobs = villains” in vanilla Minecraft, but here they’re allies. And if people are asking, you know, is that fact, did that really happen, you know we’re not saying that that’s exactly what happened, but maybe it did. Do you think it did?

I think this is a game for everybody. It covers such a broad range of gameplay. I would say that you don’t need any experience of Minecraft. If you know a lot of Minecraft, you have played a lot of our other games, you will feel at home, but it’s different as well.

Absolutely, it definitely will feel familiar to Minecraft fans, but there’s something new for them as well. And it will be something that I think gamers of all types will be able to enjoy. The antagonists in Minecraft Legends are the piglins, who are a species of kind of pigs,

That inhabit the dimension known as the Nether that a lot of Minecraft players will be familiar with. They’re chaotic and nasty but they’re also a little bit adorable, like they wanna kill you, you kinda wanna hug ’em.

It’s really a bit of that Minecraft, uh, it’s always a little bit scary and a little bit cute. And so we kept that close at hand as we were imagining the piglins as players know them from Minecraft today, and thinking about what they might have been at the height of their power.

One of the things I’ve appreciated the most since I joined Mojang is the willingness of the studio to give the right resources, to let us get the right team, the right people, to make this game. Because it’s a different kind of a challenge than the other games than Minecraft, that

We make inside the studio because we are making Minecraft Legends with some friends, who live in a faraway land, called Canada! And some friends who live over in Redmond as well, at Microsoft. So there’s been a small team in Stockholm and Redmond that have been working on Minecraft Legends

Since 2018, and at that time we partnered with BBI, Blackbird Interactive, up in Vancouver, Canada. And Lee runs the team up there which is quite sizeable. It’s a substantial team! So I started on the project in 2018, we had a very small team doing prototype, since then

We’ve grown to a gigantic team really, working very closely with Stockholm and Redmond to partner on creative and technology and production. Well we chose to work this way to bring a strategy or an action strategy game in to the Minecraft universe, and felt we needed a partner that had that expertise to kind

Of make this happen, so and that’s when we partnered with Blackbird. [Applause] As we were working on Minecraft Legends we had a codename, and the codename was “Project Badger”. So a colleague thought it was…he found this shirt with a badger print, and I wore it on

One of the Minecraft Live events in 2018. Of course, no-one knew what Project Badger was, but we thought it was quite funny. I’m hoping that the players will enjoy the game, I also hope that our players will enjoy

All the new environments and new creatures that we add, and also the story that Minecraft Legends has. So, over the coming months we will release a lot more information on Minecraft Legends as well as introduce you to the massive team we have building it up at Blackbird.

I’m really looking forward to see your reactions on Minecraft Legends once it’s released.