Editing Brickcraft

{{Italic title}}{{wip}}[[File:Brickcraft 1.png|thumb|A screenshot of ''Brickcraft''.]][[File:Brickcraft 2.png|thumb|Another screenshot of ''Brickcraft''.]][[File:Project Rex Kwon Do.jpg|thumb|Cropped image released by Notch of "''Project Rex Kwon Do''", later revealed to be ''Brickcraft''.]]

From September 5, 2011<ref>{{tweet|notch|110597995900305408|Secret project Rex Kwon Do begins today! It will involve caffeine and giggling.|September 5, 2011}}</ref> to July 19, 2012, [[Mojang]] was co-developing a video game titled '''''Brickcraft''''' (codenamed "'''''Project Rex Kwon Do'''''") alongside {{w|The Lego Group}}.

[[Markus Persson|Markus "Notch" Persson]] and [[Daniel Kaplan|Daniel "Kappische" Kaplan]] had envisioned a hybrid of ''Minecraft'' and LEGO bricks, and reached out to The Lego Group to develop a game in collaboration with them, which was codenamed "''Project Rex Kwon Do''", in reference to the film ''Napoleon Dynamite''. Mojang hired two new programmers to work on the game, and a prototype was created by Notch.

Before the title had reached a significant stage of development, Mojang cancelled the collaboration to focus on developing their own titles (''[[Minecraft]]'', ''[[Scrolls]]'', and ''[[0x10c|0x10<sup>c</sup>]]'' at the time).<ref>{{tweet|notch|226020149742927873|Remember Project Rex Kwon Do? We cancelled it to focus on Minecraft, Scrolls and eventually 0x10c that we own 100% ourselves instead.|July 19, 2012}}</ref> Notch claimed at the time that the game had been a first-person shooter.<ref>{{cite|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120728085043/http://www.joystiq.com/2012/07/26/canceled-mojang-project-was-a-first-person-shooter/|title=Canceled Mojang project was a first-person shooter|website=joystiq|author=Jessica Conditt|date=July 26, 2012}}</ref>

The game's true nature remained unknown to the public until ''Brickcraft'''s existence was revealed in December 2020 in an episode of the ''Bits N' Bricks'' podcast, created by The Lego Group to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the first LEGO video game. Daniel Mathiasen, a Lego Group employee at the time, blamed the cancellation on a series of legal hurdles that The Lego Group had put in place to protect the product's family-friendly image, with Daniel Kaplan claiming that the staff at Mojang had felt more like consultants on the project, rather than its designers.

Despite the cancellation, The Lego Group remained partnered with Mojang to produce [[LEGO Minecraft]] sets, and briefly considered acquiring Mojang, but according to Ronny Scherer, the senior director for the LEGO Games Asia/Pacific division, they decided against it as ''Minecraft'' "was still emerging" and they had "no guarantee that it would end up becoming the cultural phenomenon that it became".<ref>{{Citation|url=https://www.pcgamer.com/the-lego-minecraft-videogame-brickcraft-that-was-greenlit-and-why-it-never-happened/|title=A Lego Minecraft game called 'Brickcraft' was prototyped and greenlit – here's why it never happened|author=Rich Stanton|website=PCGamer|date=December 9, 2020}}</ref><ref>https://www.lego.com/en-us/legogames-25</ref><ref>https://www.lego.com/cdn/cs/set/assets/bltf87fd15a8f67c6fd/bits_n_bricks_s01e01_minecraft_feature_and_transcript.pdf</ref>
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