Scrolls: Mojang's next game launches April, similar release to Minecraft
Scrolls developer Mojang has revealed that its fantasy card battler will launch next month as a discounted beta, before expansing to full release.
Speaking with Polygon, Mojang co-founder and game designer Jakob Porser said, "We are aiming for release at the end of April and it's looking pretty good. We've been wanting to release it for awhile because we want to have the same sort of development as Minecraft.
"We'll release it early at a discount. With the help from our community, we'll take the game to the next level and see what we want to do and what they expect out of the game and you can work around that."
Minecraft will prove a hard act to follow, and Mojang is well aware of it. Porser continued, "Minecraft is doing so well. People have asked, do you feel like this is a difficult second album and it's a valid question.
"The way we approach it is this is the game we wanted to make. We realize it's a narrow genre compared to what Minecraft has become. I have no expectation that Scrolls is going to sell way beyond Minecraft, absolutely not. What I would like is for the game to find a core, a bunch of players that actively love the game.
"The beautiful thing with Mojang and the success of Minecraft is that we really don't have that pressure, that every game has to sell x amount of copies or we're going to go bankrupt. So we're in a good position that we can experiment and try some of the stuff that we want to do and we are going to do that."
Scrolls will hit PC initially and then Mac at a later date. Are you excited for the game? Let us know below.