![]() ![]() And when I felt I knew those things, I wrote the ending.Īs I have recently said elsewhere, writing that ending was a particularly unusual writing experience. I asked him a couple of technical questions: could he code it so that my story addressed the player by name? Could he make some of the words look encrypted, or obscured, in some way? He said yes, and yes no problem.Īnd so I played the game, day after day, often alongside my daughter, trying to understand it trying to understand Marcus's philosophy through it trying to understand the essence of Minecraft. ![]() That was why he wanted me to get involved. But he wasn’t a word guy, and hadn’t a clue what that narrative should say. I was intensely aware that this was a very personal game for Markus, very much his vision, and so I asked him did he have anything in mind, any guidelines? He said he had no idea he just felt that killing the Ender Dragon should trigger a narrative of some kind that would wrap up the game. He loved it, and said I was definitely the right guy for the job. Now I’m a pretty strange writer I was worried he might not know how strange, so I sent him a deeply peculiar short story of mine called The iHole, as a sample of my work. So that night, Markus emailed me, and asked if I would be interested in writing the ending to Minecraft. And I’d met Markus two years before, at the Berlin Indie Games Jam, and liked him he’d been kind to my daughter. I’d also written the first short story ever published by the Financial Times, and the lyrics to a top ten hit single, and so on: I liked writing short, weird, interesting narratives, to appear in unusual places, and I was good at it. Though I certainly wasn’t famous, I had (a couple of years before this) won what was then the biggest prize in the world for a single short story. ![]() This was surprising, but not entirely unreasonable. Thus the modern avatar | sub-140 character length combo.Īnd someone who knew my work immediately recommended me to him. Recent screenshot of a 2011 tweet by Markus (Notch). ![]()
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