According to a new video on the Minecraft YouTube channel, the concept for Minecraft Dungeons originally came about when the team were trying to design a game for the Nintendo 3DS.
This comes from a video titled ‘Minecraft Dungeons Diaries: Origins’, which is seemingly the first in a series providing some background and insight into Mojang’s new action-adventure game (thanks VG247).
“It all started when we were trying to figure out a cool, Minecraft-style game for the 3DS,” says chief creative officer, Jens Bergensten. “We toyed with a bunch of different ideas but finally making a dungeon crawler was something that really struck a chord with us.”
Minecraft Dungeons Diaries: Origins Watch on YouTube
The Minecraft Dungeons team is also working closely with the vanilla Minecraft team to make sure everything in Dungeons could fit into the vanilla game. The video goes on to explain how Dungeons is sticking to one of the vanilla game’s core principles of being easily accessible to anyone, regardless of age or skill, and goes into a bit of detail on how it’ll be different to other dungeon exploring games.