Telltale’s next project is... Minecraft?!?!

Nope, go ahead and check your calendar, this isn’t an April Fools’ joke. Telltale and Mojang have announced that they are working together for Telltale’s next episodic adventure: Minecraft- Story Mode. Yep, they are going to add some substance to the blockbuilding phenomenon in the way of an episodic adventure game.

I had heard rumors the past couple of days that the company would be announcing a new project with an unexpected developer partnership, but this is something I never saw coming. The game will be set in the world of Minecraft but is completely separate from the main experience. The goal here, according to Telltale’s Owen Hill, isn’t to shoehorn a narrative into the core Minecraft experience but rather to “explore an alternate interpretation” of the world.

The details are pretty scarce right now, aside from the name of the project and the fact that it will launch on all of the standard Telltale-platforms (pretty much everything). The game will launch sometime in 2915 and more details are expected very soon.