Achievements To Appear In Minecraft?
Minecraft creator Markus Persson, better known as “Notch”, says that he is a big fan of achievements within video games. He also thinks they could be useful in his phenomenal indie hit PC game.
Notch mentioned to Indie Games, “I’ve had the idea to make achievements kind of like the in-game questing. So you’d be able to see the first achievement in a tree of achievements, and you have to unlock the top ones first before you can unlock the ones further down.”
So, the first tier in this achievement “tree” would consist of tasks such as chopping down a tree, killing livestock, and traversing across the Minecraft world, then using the rescources you’ve collected to complete handfuls of other achievement-centered tasks. Notch hopes that his idea would inspire people to try new areas of the game.
He then thinks that the paths of the tree could come together into one huge task, like slaying a dragon which would put sort of a main point, or “narrative” as Notch says, to the whole tree idea.
I know that many of you out there play Minecraft, so what are your thoughts on Notch’s expanding idea?
