Minecraft: Story Mode

Minecraft: Story Mode is an upcoming episodic narrative-driven video game being developed by Mojang AB in collaboration with Telltale Games. Set in the world of Minecraft, the game is set to feature an original story driven by player choice. The game will consist of five episodes, with the first episode set to be released in October 2015 across multiple platforms. The game will also be released for PlayStation Vita and Wii U at a later date. The game is also available for pre-purchase on Steam until 13 October, 2015.

Gameplay
Minecraft: Story Mode will be an episodic narrative-driven video game similar to Telltale's previous titles such as Tales from the Borderlands. The player will 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 tend to carry more mature or emotional overtones including the death of major characters, Story Mode is aimed as a family-friendly title, so the decisions will still be pivotal and emotional but will not involve mature imagery or themes. Elements of crafting and building, central to Minecraft, will be included in the gameplay. The game is also set to mix new characters with original themes in 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, Jesse's best friend

Ashley Johnson as Petra, a friend of Jesse and a warrior

Scott Porter as Lukas

Martha Plimpton as Olivia

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

Grey Griffin as Ellegard 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 know for a while

Other characters
Billy West as the Narrator

Paul Reubens as Ivor

Roles TBA
Lydia Winters as TBA

Development
At SXSW 15, Lydia Winters said that it will not have any kind of story expanding on Minecraft's main characters, Steve and Alex.

On June 2, 2015, Job Stauffer, Director of PR at Telltale Games, announced on Twitter that Story Mode would not be shown at E3, but the company later said that it would be shown at MineCon 2015. At MineCon 2015, more information about the cast and characters were revealed. It was also revealed that Telltale actually began talks with Mojang regarding Story Mode back at GDC 2013, but development didn't start until a year later.

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 Games revealed to The Verge that Story Mode will also be released on the Wii U, making it the first Minecraft-themed game to be 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 September 26, 2015 a public demo of Minecraft: Story Mode was livestreamed at TwitchCon 2015.

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