Straight outta PAX comes this teaser for Markus "Notch" Perrson's newest Mojang joint, Scrolls. It's chock full of hand-drawn art, magical stuff and concludes with some sort of golem punching robot thing. Now that's something we can get behind! (You're safe from its punches there).
Scrolls teaser trailer leaps from the page into your eyeballs
by David Hinkle 
on Aug 30th 2011 3:20PM
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Straight outta PAX comes this teaser for Markus "Notch" Perrson's newest Mojang joint, Scrolls. It's chock full of hand-drawn art, magical stuff and concludes with some sort of golem punching robot thing. Now that's something we can get behind! (You're safe from its punches there).
Reader Comments (24)
Posted: Aug 30th 2011 3:24PM Kayonesoft said
For what appears to be gameplay, skip to 0:44/0:49
Posted: Aug 30th 2011 3:25PM ansalon929 said
ok after viewing the little trailer how are people gonna confuse this with Skyrim or any other of The Elder Scrolls games again?
Posted: Aug 30th 2011 3:30PM Prince David said
@ansalon929 I know. The graphics on this are so much better than Skyrim.
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Posted: Aug 30th 2011 3:31PM Rubbishy Me said
@ansalon929
Their thieves who are delivering the scroll after stealing it from imperial palace... Just kidding.
I am personally curious as to what it will be like. Will it be similar to Magics style?
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Their thieves who are delivering the scroll after stealing it from imperial palace... Just kidding.
I am personally curious as to what it will be like. Will it be similar to Magics style?
Posted: Aug 30th 2011 3:33PM (Unverified) said
@ansalon929
I dunno.. they both have scrolls in the title... im so confused
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I dunno.. they both have scrolls in the title... im so confused
Posted: Aug 30th 2011 3:43PM TalkingBidoof said
@ansalon929
Bethesda isn't suing them because the game is anything like Elder Scrolls. They just need to do it in case some one else DOES make a game like The Elder Scrolls, and then names it something similar to try and trick people into buying it. If Bethesda takes that imposter, who IS actually copying them, to court, the imposter can then say "Well, Mojang called their fantasy game Scrolls, and Bethesda didn't sue them, so we had reason to believe it would be alright for us to do the same." The judge would PROBABLY still declare Bethesda the winner, but it's still possible for them to lose, and they're just trying to head that of f.
The good news is that Bethesda doesn't have to win and get a ton of money from Mojang in order to show they care about their copyright to "The Elder Scrolls". They just have to file the suit, and if they settle out of court or whatever with Mojang, they can still say "We DID defend our copyright to "The Elder Scrolls"" when the imposter rolls around with their Elder Scrolls knockoff, without needing to run Mojang into the ground.
It is kind of stupid and ridiculous, but hey, that's copyright law.
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Bethesda isn't suing them because the game is anything like Elder Scrolls. They just need to do it in case some one else DOES make a game like The Elder Scrolls, and then names it something similar to try and trick people into buying it. If Bethesda takes that imposter, who IS actually copying them, to court, the imposter can then say "Well, Mojang called their fantasy game Scrolls, and Bethesda didn't sue them, so we had reason to believe it would be alright for us to do the same." The judge would PROBABLY still declare Bethesda the winner, but it's still possible for them to lose, and they're just trying to head that of f.
The good news is that Bethesda doesn't have to win and get a ton of money from Mojang in order to show they care about their copyright to "The Elder Scrolls". They just have to file the suit, and if they settle out of court or whatever with Mojang, they can still say "We DID defend our copyright to "The Elder Scrolls"" when the imposter rolls around with their Elder Scrolls knockoff, without needing to run Mojang into the ground.
It is kind of stupid and ridiculous, but hey, that's copyright law.
Posted: Aug 30th 2011 5:37PM Copybass Ah jeez zombies said
@ansalon929
This trailer actually makes it worse, using those unfinished hand drawn characters as either a nod, or a punch at Bethesda. They're all done in the style of Morrowind.
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This trailer actually makes it worse, using those unfinished hand drawn characters as either a nod, or a punch at Bethesda. They're all done in the style of Morrowind.
Posted: Aug 30th 2011 7:58PM (Unverified) said
@TalkingBidoof That's probably the most accurate description of what is likely going on with the dispute over the "Scrolls" name.
With reasonable and well written responses like that, you're going to get yourself banned from the Internet. ;)
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With reasonable and well written responses like that, you're going to get yourself banned from the Internet. ;)
Posted: Aug 30th 2011 3:29PM Sled said
Soon to be called paper in a rolled up fashion
Posted: Aug 30th 2011 3:32PM louiedog said
"Coming eventually"
That sounds about right.
That sounds about right.
Posted: Aug 30th 2011 3:37PM INTRO said
I thought this came out 11/11/11?
Posted: Aug 30th 2011 3:50PM Courtney said
Well, that trailer had the best truth in advertising moment in it.
Posted: Aug 30th 2011 4:02PM Dick Socrates said
Can't wait for a card battler with Flash animation.
CAN wait, sorry, *can* wait.
CAN wait, sorry, *can* wait.
Posted: Aug 30th 2011 4:09PM joethemieden said
"coming out eventually" lol
Posted: Aug 30th 2011 4:52PM gordeaux said
i dont know what it is. i want it though.
Posted: Aug 31st 2011 12:10AM ch3burashka said
Reminds me of Dungeon Fighter and other 2D brawlers. Coming from the Minecraft guy, that's not really impressive. I'm not ready to write it off yet, but Notch better have some tricks up his sleeve if he's planning on winning me over.
Posted: Aug 31st 2011 7:49AM shruikan said
Where are the dragons? Disappointed by bethesda to have a trailer for Scrolls 5 with no mention of dragons :( (lol, my friends call it "skyrim" how are we meant to know its part of a series????)
