Recently, several Minecraft players met up in-game to visit a dinner party, but things quickly went awry when an evening of fun escalated into a Clue-style murder mystery. Clue is an interesting beast in popular culture, first existing as a mystery-based board game before evolving into a multimedia franchise. Many consider the 1985 Clue film adaptation as something of a cult classic and there are plans to explore the brand further in a new animated series.
Minecraft has enjoyed somewhat of a similar trajectory over the years, starting as an indie sandbox game that seemingly took the world by storm overnight. In the decade-plus since its original launch, the Mojang-created project managed to expand with a series of education modules, genre-bending spinoffs (i.e., dungeon crawler Minecraft Dungeons), and novels. There's even a film in the works at Warner Bros. Minecraft's impressive creation tools continue to push the envelope as well, allowing players to build everything from steampunk cities to an accurate recreation of Amsterdam. It should come as no surprise, then, that fans were recently able to design and play a game of Clue.
Earlier in the week, YouTuber Aphmau shared a lengthy video of a Clue recreation in Minecraft. It's not nearly as simple as it may sound, either. What starts as an in-game dinner party devolves into chaos when the lights randomly go out and another visitor at the gathering winds up missing. With a murder afoot, the group begins searching for clues and anything else that may help them in their urgent quest to uncover the culprit. The video itself plays out like an episode of an animated show, with voice-over and a keen sense of direction.
Numerous Minecraft creators on YouTube regularly treat their audiences to quality entertainment, so the level of detail on display in the above video hardly comes as a surprise. What's impressive is that Clue still lives on beyond the confines of its board game origins. If nothing else, this Minecraft recreation makes a special case for why the in-development animated series may work wonders.
Minecraft's expansion remains on the rise, too. The sandbox survival adventure recently hit a whopping 140 million players worldwide, many of whom contributed to another mind-blowing milestone. To date, Minecraft has sold through over one billion marketplace items.
Minecraft is available across Nintendo, PC, PlayStation, Xbox, Android, and iOS platforms.
Source: Aphmau