Minecraft: Story Mode

Minecraft: Story Mode is an ongoing episodic point-and-click narrative-driven graphic adventure video game based on the sandbox video game Minecraft, released in October 2015 across multiple platforms with a PlayStation Vita and Wii U release arriving at a later date. The game is being developed by Mojang AB, the developer of Minecraft, in collaboration with Telltale Games. Music for the game is being composed by Anadel, an atmospheric folk band based in California. The game follows the episodic format that Telltale has used for its previous titles, where player choices and actions have siginificant effects on later story elements.

Gameplay
Minecraft: Story Mode is an ongoing episodic point-and-click narrative-driven graphic adventure video game similar to Telltale's previous titles such as Tales from the Borderlands. The player is able to collect items, solve puzzles, and talk to non-player characters though conversation trees to learn about the story and determine what to do next. Like other Telltale Games, decisions that the player makes will have an impact on story elements in future episodes. However, unlike Telltale's previous games that carry more mature or emotional overtones including the death of major characters, Story Mode is known as a family-friendly title, so the decisions are still pivotal and emotional but do not involve mature imagery or themes. Elements of crafting and building, central to Minecraft, are included in the gameplay. The game also mixes new characters with original themes to make an entirely original Minecraft experience.

Plot
Jesse and his / her group of friends revere the legendary Order of the Stone: Warrior, Redstone Engineer, Griefer, and Architect; slayers of the Ender Dragon. While at EnderCon in hopes of meeting Gabriel the Warrior, Jesse’s friends discover that something is wrong... something dreadful. Terror is unleashed, and they must set out on a quest to find The Order of the Stone if they are to save their world from oblivion.

Voice cast




Jesse and Friends
Patton Oswalt as Jesse (male), a huge fan of everything going on in Minecraft, as well as the main character

Catherine Taber as Jesse (female)

Brian Posehn as Axel, who is fiercely loyal to his friends, but can appear to act impulsive.

Ashley Johnson as Petra, who is tough, shrewd, and very protective of her friends.

Martha Plimpton as Olivia, who is assertive and smart, but lacks patience.

Scott Porter as Lukas

Order of the Stone members
Dave Fennoy as Gabriel the Warrior, a powerful warrior who appears at EnderCon

Grey Griffin as Ellegaard the Redstone Engineer, who is very smart, but whereabouts are slightly hazy

Corey Feldman as Magnus the Griefer, who is hard to find but is also an impressive griefer who appreciates the "art" of it

John Hodgman as Soren the Architect, who is the hardest to find and whereabouts have not been known for a while

Other characters
Billy West as the Narrator

Paul Reubens as Ivor

Roles TBA
Lydia Winters as TBA

Development
The idea for Minecraft: Story Mode came around the end of 2012 when Telltale was engaged in work for Tales from the Borderlands, an episodic series based on the Borderlands series. The idea of developing stories around other established video game franchises led the team to brainstorm the idea for a Minecraft-related game, given that the game was essentially a "blank canvas" for storytelling, according to Job Stauffer, and would create an interesting challenge. Telltale began negotiations with Mojang at GDC 2013, and began work on the title shortly thereafter. Stauffer noted that Microsoft's acquisition of Mojang was not a factor in the game's development, as their interaction with Mojang began well before Microsoft's offers.

Telltale opted to create a new main character of Jesse for Minecraft: Story Mode instead of using the default "Steve" and "Alex" characters from Minecraft, feeling that they did not want to attempt to rewrite how players already saw this character in the game.

Minecraft: Story Mode was formally announced in December 2014 as a collaboration project between Mojang and Telltale Games; the announcement was presented as an interactive adventure game named "Info Quest II". Its first trailer was released during the Minecon convention in early July 2015.

On June 18, 2015 a PS Vita sizzle reel included the Story Mode logo, despite the platform not being listed in materials released at that point. The game was directly confirmed to be coming to the handheld on August 31, 2015.

On August 21, 2015, Stauffer posted on Twitter that a playable demo of Story Mode will be available at PAX Prime.

On August 24, 2015, Winters posted on Twitter that she had completed voiceover work for the game, but didn't specify if she voiced a character or did some narration for the game.

On August 26, 2015, Telltale confirmed that they will release the game for the Wii U, representing the first time a Minecraft game has been released on a Nintendo platform.

On August 28, 2015, it was announced that the player will be able to choose the appearance of the main character, Jesse.

On October 7, 2015, Anadel, an atmospheric folk band based in Napa, California, announced that they had composed the music for the game.

Episodes
The game is separated into five episodes, released in intervals.

System requirements
According to the Steam page, the minimum system requirements for the PC/Mac version of the game are as follows:

Supported languages
According to the Steam page, the following languages are available in the game: