Minecraft:Minecraft: Story Mode

Box art by Mojang Studios

Minecraft: Story Mode was an episodic point-and-click narrative-driven graphic adventure Template:W based on the sandbox game Minecraft:Minecraft, released in October 2015 across multiple platforms with a Windows (Microsoft Store) release on December 16, 2015, a Wii U release on January 21, 2016, a tvOS release on August 24, 2016, and a Nintendo Switch release on August 22, 2017.<ref name="StoryModeRelease">Template:Citation</ref><ref>Template:Citation</ref> The game was developed by Minecraft:Mojang Studios, the developer of Minecraft:Minecraft, in collaboration with Minecraft:Telltale Games.

In June 2018, Minecraft:Netflix and Telltale signed a partnership agreement, and the first season of the game Minecraft: Story Mode was announced to be released on Netflix on November 7, 2018.<ref>Template:Citation</ref> Due to unknown reasons, the release date was pushed to November 27, 2018. That day, the first three episodes of the series were released and the last two episodes were released on December 5, 2018. Story Mode was removed from Netflix on December 5, 2022.<ref>Source can be found [[Minecraft::File:StoryModeNetflixExitDate.jpg|here]].</ref>

Music for the game was composed by Antimo & Welles, consisting of Skyler Barto (Antimo) and Andrew Arcadi (Welles), and Anadel, an atmospheric folk band based in California that Andrew is also a part of.<ref name="facebook.com">Anadel's official Facebook page</ref><ref name="wellesproject">Welles Project - an archived page of Welles Creative</ref><ref =name"anadelbio">Anadel Biography - About Anadel. Sonic Bids. Retrieved Template:Datetime</ref> The game follows the episodic format that Telltale has used for its previous titles, where player choices and actions have significant effects on later story elements.

A sequel, Template:El, was released on July 11, 2017, featuring new storylines and characters.

On May 31, 2019, it was announced that Minecraft: Story Mode would no longer be supported following the closure of Telltale Games. The servers for Story Mode were discontinued on June 25, 2019, meaning that the episodes are no longer downloadable on most platforms.<ref>Template:Mcnet</ref> The Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and Nintendo Switch versions are playable on the Template:W, Template:W, and Template:W respectively via backward compatibility.<ref>Minecraft: Story Mode - Episode 1: The Order of the Stone | Xbox</ref>

Gameplay

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Synopsis

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Jesse and hisTemplate:Sic group of friends revere the legendary Order of the Stone; four adventurers who slayed an ender dragon. The Order are the very best at what they do: Warrior, Redstone Engineer, Griefer, and Architect. While at EnderCon, Jesse and hisTemplate:Sic friends discover that something is wrong... something dreadful. Terror is unleashed, and they must set out on a journey to find The Order of the Stone if they are to save their world from oblivion.

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Take control of an adventure set in the Minecraft universe. The future of the world is at stake, and your decisions shape the story, so choose wisely!

Plot

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Voice cast

File:Minecraft Story Mode characters.jpg

Some characters in Story Mode (from left to right); Petra, Axel, Jesse, Olivia, Reuben and Lukas (in his original design)

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In Story Mode, the player gets to choose the appearance of the main character, Jesse. The character can be either male or female and can also swap between varieties of clothing and skin tone.

Jesse and Friends

Minecraft:Patton Oswalt as Template:MCSM (male), a huge fan of everything going on in Minecraft:Minecraft, as well as the main character<ref name=MINECON/>
Catherine Taber as Template:MCSM (female)<ref name=StoryModeCharacter>Template:Citation</ref>
Dee Bradley Baker as Template:MCSM, Jesse's pet pig who is smart and funny.
Brian Posehn as Template:MCSM, who is fiercely loyal to his friends but can appear to act impulsively.<ref name=MINECON>Template:Cite</ref>
Minecraft:Ashley Johnson as Template:MCSM, who is tough, shrewd, and very protective of her friends.<ref name=MINECON/>
Martha Plimpton as Template:MCSM, who is assertive and smart but lacks patience.<ref name=MINECON/>
Scott Porter as Template:MCSM, a member of the Ocelots who later befriends Jesse and their group.<ref name=October>Template:Citation</ref>

Order of the Stone members

Minecraft:Dave Fennoy as Template:MCSM, a powerful fighter who appears at Template:MCSM<ref name=MINECON/>
Minecraft:Grey DeLisle as Template:MCSM, someone who is very smart but whose whereabouts are slightly hazy<ref name=October/>
Corey Feldman as Template:MCSM, an impressive griefer who appreciates the "art" of griefing and who is also hard to find<ref name=October/>
John Hodgman as Template:MCSM, a mysterious person who is the hardest to find and whose whereabouts have not been known for a while<ref name=October/>
Paul Reubens as Template:MCSM, a former member of the Order who distrusted Soren after the command block incident and who has vowed to demolish the world of Minecraft<ref name=October/>

Old Builder members

Template:W as Template:MCSM, the Founder of Template:MCSM.<ref name=EP5DLC/>
Template:W as Template:MCSM, the person who reveals herself as the White Pumpkin.
Template:W as Template:MCSM, the creator of Template:MCSM.<ref name=EP7>Template:Citation</ref>
Template:W as Template:MCSM, the leader of the Template:MCSM.<ref name=EP8/>
Template:W as Template:MCSM, the Enforcer.<ref name=EP8/>
Template:W as Template:MCSM, a person who prefers to make sure rules are followed.

Other characters

Template:W as the Template:MCSM, Template:MCSM, and the fanboy<ref name=October/>
Template:W as Template:MCSM, Template:MCSM, and the Template:MCSM
Template:W as Template:MCSM, a member of the Ocelots, later known as the Blaze Rods.
Minecraft:Matthew Mercer as Template:MCSM, Template:MCSM, Template:MCSM, Template:MCSM, and Griefer #2
Jason Topolski as Template:MCSM, Template:MCSM, Griefer #5, and Template:MCSM.
Erin Yvette as the Template:MCSM of the Template:MCSM building competition, Template:MCSM, Template:MCSM, and Griefer #1
Minecraft:Lydia Winters as Template:MCSM
Minecraft:Owen Jones<ref group= note>Credited as Owen Hill</ref> as Template:MCSM
Ursula Taherian as Template:MCSM, a griefer of Template:MCSM.
Template:W as Griefer #3
Michael Gambino as Template:MCSM and Griefer #4
A.J. Riebli III as the announcer of the Template:MCSM
Minecraft:Sean Astin as Template:MCSM, the loyal Captain of the Guard<ref name=EP5DLC>Template:Citation</ref>
Template:W as Template:MCSM, the leader of the Template:MCSM.<ref name=EP5DLC/>
Template:W as Template:MCSM<ref name=EP6Release>Template:Citation</ref>
Stacy Hinojosa as Template:MCSM<ref name=EP6Release/>
Minecraft:Daniel Middleton as Template:MCSM<ref name=EP6Release/>
Minecraft:Elizabeth Dwyer as LDShadowLady<ref name=EP6Release/>
Minecraft:Jordan Maron as Template:MCSM<ref name=EP6Release/>
Template:W as Template:MCSM
Template:W as the Template:MCSM
Template:W as Template:MCSM
Template:W as Template:MCSM and Template:MCSM
John Sanders as Template:MCSM, one of the Gladiators
Template:W as Template:MCSM, one of the Gladiators

Additional voices

Ashley Albert
Will Beckman
Katrina Carras
Shelly Shenoy
Arthur von Nagel

Development

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Box art for The Complete Adventure.

Template:Q 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.<ref name=StoryModeverge/> Telltale began negotiations with Mojang Studios at GDC 2013, and began work on the title shortly thereafter.<ref name=StoryModeverge/> Stauffer noted that Microsoft's acquisition of Mojang Studios was not a factor in the game's development, as their interaction with Mojang Studios began well before Microsoft's offers.<ref name=StoryModeverge/>

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 these characters in the game.<ref>Template:Citation</ref> Other primary characters in the game are loosely designed around archetypes of common player-characters for Minecraft, such as those who engage in building, fighting, or griefing other players.<ref name=GamasutraStory>Template:Citation</ref> The game does not attempt to provide any background for some concepts in Minecraft, such as the creepers, to avoid the various fan interpretations of such elements, though they will be elements of the game's story.<ref name=GamasutraStory/>

Stauffer stated that the game's story was intended to be family-friendly, similar to The Goonies or Ghostbusters;<ref name=StoryModeverge/> their intended content would be equivalent to a PG-13 or PEGI-12 rating.<ref name=GamasutraStory/> A number of the voice actors are alumni of such films of the 1980s such as Corey Feldman who starred in The Goonies, and the game includes various references to these types of films.<ref name=GamasutraStory/> Stauffer reflected that while Telltale's more recent games like The Walking Dead were more mature stories, their original adventure games like Sam & Max and Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People were written as family-friendly, and that they consider their approach to Story Mode as "part of our DNA". The story was written to be accessible both to existing players of Minecraft – both novice and advanced players – and to new audiences outside of the game.<ref name=StoryModeverge/>

Minecraft: Story Mode was formally announced in December 2014 as a collaboration project between Mojang Studios and Minecraft:Telltale Games; the announcement was presented as an interactive adventure game named "Info Quest II".<ref>Template:Citation</ref> Its first trailer was released during the Minecraft:MINECON convention in early July 2015. Telltale confirmed that they would release the game for the Wii U, representing the first time a Minecraft game has been released on a Nintendo platform.<ref name=StoryModeverge/>

On August 24, 2015, Winters posted on Twitter (now X) that she had completed voiceover work for the game but didn't specify whether she voiced a character or did some narration for the game.<ref name=LydiaVoiceStory>Template:Tweet</ref>

On August 28, 2015, it was announced that the player will be able to choose the appearance of the main character, Jesse.<ref name=StoryModeCharacter/>

On October 7, 2015, Anadel, an atmospheric folk band based in Template:W, announced that they had composed the music for the game.<ref name="facebook.com"/>

Episodes

The game is divided into five separately sold episodes, released in intervals between 2 weeks and 3 months.

A Season Pass, which bundled all five episodes together, launched on October 27, 2015 with a physical copy subtitled Season Pass Disc releasing the same day. That physical release includes the first episode on the disc and granted access to the other four episodes via download when the game's servers were operating.

No.	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original release
1	"The Order of the Stone"	Dennis Lenart and Graham Ross	Michael Choung and Template:W	October 13, 2015<ref name="StoryModeRelease"/>
2	"Assembly Required"	Jason Latino	Joshua Rubin, Eric Stirpe and Tim Williams	October 27, 2015<ref>Template:Citation</ref>
3	"The Last Place You Look"	Jonathan Stauder	Michael Choung, Laura Jacqmin, Eric Stirpe and Tim Williams	November 24, 2015<ref>Template:Citation</ref>
4	"A Block and a Hard Place"	Graham Ross and Rebekah Gamin-Arcovitch	Brad Kane and Laura Jacqmin	December 17, 2015
5	"Order Up!"	Jonathan Stauder	Eric Stirpe and Tim Williams	March 29, 2016<ref name=EP5DLC/>

Supplemental episodes

On March 22, 2016, Telltale Games announced that three episodes will be released throughout 2016 as downloadable content.<ref name=EP5DLC/> These episodes were not part of the Season Pass and as such were sold separately on their own or as a DLC bundle named Adventure Pass.<ref>Template:Citation</ref> In order to download these episodes, one must have at least one episode from the main series.<ref name=EP5DLC/>

A bundle encompassing both the Season and Adventure Passes launched on October 25, 2016. The physical release of said bundle, subtitled The Complete Adventure, includes all eight episodes on the disc without requiring a download.

No.	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original release
6	"A Portal to Mystery"<ref name=EPName>Template:Tweet</ref>	Sean Manning	Eric Stirpe and Tim Williams	June 7, 2016<ref name=EP6Release/>
7	"Access Denied"<ref name=EPName/>	Rebekah Gamin-Arcovitch and Jason Pyke	Luke McMullen and Eric Stirpe	July 26, 2016<ref name=EP7/>
8	"A Journey's End?"<ref name=EPName/>	Vahram Antonian<ref>Template:Tweet</ref>	Eric Stirpe, Yale Hannon and Erica Harrell	September 13, 2016<ref name=EP8/>

Trailers

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System requirements

According to this page:

Minimum (Steam)

Component	Template:OS	Template:OS
Minimum version	Windows XP SP3	OS X Lion (10.7)
Processor	Intel Core2 Duo @ 2 GHz or equivalent	Intel @ 2.3 GHz
Memory (RAM)	3 GB or more	4 GB or more
Storage space	8 GB available space
Graphics drivers	AMD or NVIDIA card with 512 MB or more
DirectX version	11 or higher	Template:Tc
Sound card	DirectX 11 or later	Template:Tc
Notes	Not recommended for Intel integrated graphics drivers.	Not recommended for Intel integrated graphics, Mac mini, or early-generation MacBook models.

Recommended (Steam)

Component	Template:OS
Processor	Intel Core2 Duo @ 2.3 GHz or equivalent
Memory (RAM)	4 GB or more
Graphics drivers	AMD or NVIDIA card with 1024 MB or more

Supported languages

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

Languages	Interface	Full Audio	Subtitles
English	Template:Tc	Template:Tc	Template:Tc
European French	Template:Tc	Template:Tc	Template:Tc
German	Template:Tc	Template:Tc	Template:Tc
European Spanish	Template:Tc	Template:Tc	Template:Tc
Russian	Template:Tc	Template:Tc	Template:Tc
Simplified Chinese	Template:Tc	Template:Tc	Template:Tc
European Portuguese	Template:Tc	Template:Tc	Template:Tc