4J Studios’ Minecraft-Like Game Announced!

4J Studios are best known as the developers who brought Minecraft to consoles and these seven editions of the game were absolutely loved by the community because of their unique implementation of many Java features but also the mini games which allowed you to play multiplayer without any servers required whatsoever unfortunately the

Release of Bedrock meant that couldn’t last forever and so since then 4J had been working on a new game and that is something we just got our first trailer off I’m excited let’s play it right now [Applause] guys it’s here oh my gosh let’s quickly pause the video here for a second just because of all the cool Minecraft references I want to point out as we go because in the background you can see all the games 4J have worked on as a studio they’ve done a lot of

Different porting things but one of those is of course Minecraft Xbox 360 uh the classic Steve with a pickaxe and a wolf then next to it is Minecraft on the PlayStation editions and then next to that you know these two games they’ve worked on the studio they put the three

Mini games they’ve worked as a studio the battle mini game The tumble mini game and then over there you can definitely tell that it’s Glide mini game that tells us that they consider these mini games to kind of be full games within the game either they actually released as a studio something

Which is very interesting and might tie into things coming elsewhere in this trailer out of the way whoa whoa fusa okay so let’s quickly pause the shot here and then rewind a little bit because there is a painting falling off the wall and if you actually look

Carefully what that is it’s a Minecraft painting of the it’s actually the two I believe two of the founders of 4J Studios uh Van Der Carl and Paddy Burns it’s their Minecraft skins falling off the wall and in fact the two remaining paintings on the wall uh one of them

Involves a wheel and one of them’s got like a little bolt on it which is incredibly interesting but the Minecraft skins are falling out of shot of course this is a reference to the Minecraft xbla trailer uh the exact same shot happens in that one but we’ll mention

That in a second because obviously they all go to grab the controller we can kind of play this one with no audio right here you can see wow they’re all grabbing the controller and oh they’re all fighting over it and doesn’t this scene here remind you of something

Obviously if you haven’t been playing Minecraft for 10 years it probably doesn’t but when they launched Minecraft on the Xbox 360 they call it Minecraft xblade and they released it with this trailer guys oh it’s here Holy Ghost wow whoa it’s basically the same thing that happened from the painting falling off

The wall to this guy grabbing the controller at the last minute out of nowhere and then it shows Minecraft first of all look how old this version of Minecraft is you can tell you know this trailer you can tell it’s 11 years old it’s from 2011.

Man am I that old but the other thing about this is look how old the create new world screen is but this trailer was a huge moment for 4J Studios because it was when most people heard about the thing they’d been working on uh over 10 years ago now and which they’ve been

Working on for most of the time since then so for them to recreate it but this new game is in itself a Minecraft reference however if you’re excited to see the equivalent of that Minecraft title screen instead of that we get this which is a 4J Studio static screen uh

But don’t worry after a little bit more of playing around the controller and more references to that shot we see the exact same thing why is there just a static screen saying 4J steers to someone up the trailer here no actually something that 4J Studios like to do as

A studio because they were very good at like kind of promoting their updates and stuff like that is whenever they had something huge to announce soon they would change their Banner to this fuzzy banner and funnily enough they actually changed the banner back to that yesterday so something huge is coming

Soon some big announcement is coming soon and the way that they’re you know making a reference to this even more is by making their trailer not even show footage off it but show this 4J thing instead and it’s funny to me because they do all of the classic things from

This xblade trailer so here it is in the XBox trailer everyone’s swaying to the side for a minecart and now here it is in the 4G Australia but there’s no such Minecart they’re swaying to the side for so uh this is incredibly interesting by itself I mean we can also tell another

Interesting detail here so after a lot more of these fun references to the original trailer including everyone being sad at the static screen uh there is this moment where everyone cheers together and we get one last reference to the original trailer where Notch is uh saying that’s my game and instead we

Have this shot yep that’s my game so this is Chris Van Der Kyle who is the chair a minute 4J Studios one of the big people who does a lot of public events for the game and so uh he’s saying that’s his game which to me rules out

One of the three possibilities we assume Minecraft was working on they could have been working on some form of minigame or mashup pack or something for Minecraft as a DLC they could have been working on something which was uh you know like a Brand’s new game not Minecraft related

But Minecraft uh kind of adjacent in terms of the features are in it and then they could be working on something entirely unrelated to all of that but I think him saying that’s my game implies that it’s not Minecraft because obviously Minecraft console edition is

His game but I don’t uh you know they’re not developing that anymore uh sadly that has been taken up by bedrock and so it to me implies this is their Brand’s new fresh game they’re releasing uh and that is something that is very much followed because they say get ready for

A 4J Studios original coming your way soon they are making a brand new game on a Brand’s new IP it’s not like Minecraft Legends it is a brand new fully featured game more like hightail I guess to compare at something and it’s coming soon which is obviously another 4J

Reference but here’s the greatest thing about this you might not have spotted so a while ago obviously 4J uh you know kind of uh you know like in response to people they said that they were making a brand new game and it feels like a follow-up from where they left off with

The mini games so the challenge is on and they they said they’ve had some practice with us they’ve been working on it for a while uh and that is interesting Enough by itself right like okay their game is gonna follow on from many games but if you do recoup the last

Mini game that they were working on was build battle in fact at the very last Minecon they did in 2016 rip Minecon uh they actually did uh have a little bit of a fun reference when people asked about build battle so that was all fun everyone knows we love building we love

Building time but wouldn’t it be really cool if you added some sort of like building minigame into the console versions hmm building time in the console version now that is a good idea and so we know they’re falling on from their previous mini games we know the

Last mini game they were working on was some form of build battle but here’s something that kind of proves that even more you know uh you you might have noticed during the trailer that they weren’t all holding controllers in fact the control they are holding looks like

A weird amalgamation of all of the controllers which to me might imply this is a multi-platform release but I don’t know what’s going on with that but what I do know is that everyone else is holding weird items on the far left this guy has a drill in his hand uh you can

See uh Chris Van Der Carl I mentioned earlier he has a spanner in his hand uh the woman in the back with the sunglasses has WD-40 and then there’s some other can in the hands of uh I believe his name is David one of the

Lead artists on the game uh but we have uh you know like everyone is holding these weird supplies what do they all have in common these like weird household objects that you might use to build something would you not a drill a spanner uh is it a wrencherous spanner

You one of those things as well as some WD-40 that’s what you would need if you were going to build right you would have a lot of emotions good and bad if you were going to build I I think that 4J are announcing a brand new game which is

Going to be a series of mini games maybe with some relation to what they’ve done in Minecraft maybe it’s just gonna be a collection of mini games in its own right but they’re going to be releasing it soon whatever it is and allow me to roll down my green screen to show you

That here’s the thing Man it is messy back there I have a I have a plant there oh that’s real that’s a real plant that needs to be actually watered oh I hope that’s enough water I can’t tell you how many weeks it’s been since I bought that thing I genuinely forgot it

Existed uh like some people might have done uh with the whole console editions of Minecraft whenever I make a video about console edition there are people being like oh I forgot about this game from my childhood I forgot about this game from a while ago but 4J Studios are

In that very same space and here’s something that I’m not sure if I’m allowed to tell you about but I’ll do it anyway because I’m I don’t know that it hasn’t come up uh so here’s the thing 4J Studios are announcing this game really soon and we know that not just from this

Trailer but actually from the fact that they invited a fair few YouTubers to go up to their office and that is coming really soon the date for that I I think it’s like as soon as next week even uh is when we’re going to be learning more

About this game assuming it’s not all under embargo I’ll be sharing whatever I can I’m gonna bring a capture card with me maybe even uh I figure it’d be a really fun thing to see what we can learn about this game and I’ll be sharing anything and everything that I

Can with you on this channel I am incredibly curious and passionate about this Minecraft console Edition was the game of Minecraft I probably have the most hours then I have thousands upon thousands of hours playing Minecraft on the console with one of these controllers and so it is a fun idea to

Be able to see what the developers are up to this is something I am incredibly excited about but it’s something I I can’t really say more about what’s happening until I know more um but I know it involves the minigame I know uh there’s gonna be an opportunity to play

It and I hope I can share something about that with the rest of you anyway I’m gonna probably clean up this office it’s uh uh you know it’s very hot in the UK you can tell from the blinding light that just exists over there but um you know

We’ll roll up the green screen and we’ll we’ll put some gameplay back over there uh because this is why I have a green screen because I can’t I can’t put one of those cool backgrounds up and make things look impressive but what I can do is tell you that I am incredibly excited

I am looking forward to this and I think uh there is a real chance that there is you know like I’m one of the people that’s been cynical the whole time like is 4J really working on something related to their Minecraft projects I assume that there was a good chance it

Would just be a brand new game in a genre that none of us knew about and uh it looks as though that is not true it looks as though they are seriously trying to cater uh to that console edition audience they built the uh and I think that’s a smart move and I’m

Excited to see how that does go and I’ll let you know more about it but for now thank you very much for watching I hope you all enjoyed because I’ll see you today later actually because I’m going to be live streaming my attempt to get all of the trims of Minecraft in two

Hours or less this seemed impossible when I started it but I’m getting slightly better and I think it might just be possible today as long as I don’t get slayed by the warden but that’s gonna be be one of those fun challenges again speaking of fun

Challenges it is very hot I’ve been I had to turn off the AC when I record and so I’m slowly melting to death here but thank you for watching I am so excited about this uh I really you know I I’m one of those people who like tries not

To get your hopes up like expect the uh expect the worst you know hope for the best but expect the worst uh but this seems to be not that far of our best expectations they’re making what we all wanted from them a while ago and I really can’t believe it’s happening and

I’ll let you know when I know next week assuming I was allowed to say that and if I wasn’t then oops in which case this isn’t me this is ibx toy duck send all the legal documents to him it’s him that said the thing he wasn’t meant to not not me me

Um this this is this is the person you want to come after 4J okay see you next time Foreign