It’s arguable that the Yogscast has been one of the most influential groups in the Minecraft community. Many of the mods or maps I have played to date have come from watching them on their Yogscast channel. I even learned Tekkit and Thaumcraft from Duncan and made an attempt at my own factory after the Yogs creation of their own Jaffa Factory, to which I failed miserably. Aside from general geekness, they were also a testament to our own academic ideals of social learning (gross, academics!), which is an incredibly powerful and disruptive statement in the world of “academia”, its this crazy idea that we, as gamers, can often more effectively teach and share complexity better than any single teacher or textbook, I’m a big fan.
I always would create those, “what if” scenarios early in our development, as most developers do. What if we had modders and map makers who could use OUR tools to make things fun enough to share by the Yogscast, someday. It turns out we have this opportunity now, and a bit more...
So, I am REALLY excited to announce our official partnership and collaboration with The Yogscast… *gimme a second, barfing rainbows of excitement right now*. We met for dinner back at GDC in San Fran and we have become pretty close over the months, geeking out about things we can do, build, and share, and we cannot be more excited about the future of this project as we are right now. Their insights and experience working with modders and map makers will be invaluable, and its going to be a lot of fun making some content for their community as well. So certainly do expect some subtle influence from them in the project as well. Hmm… how many ways COULD we craft a viking helmet or diggy diggy hole tools?
Our vision for this project is in sync, and nothing changes in our development path, so we could not have asked for a better partner on this project. They are the best at what they do and we look forward to building a platform with them. There are some AMAZING things on the way with our game and the technology behind it. SO much cool stuff, but we will roll out more details of what we are working on together over time, in the form of videos and blogs, as per usual. Overall, this is a huge step for our community and project, and we hope you guys are as excited about this as we are!
Peter - Ino - Salinas
@inoritewtf