{"id":42008,"date":"2013-05-28T12:48:19","date_gmt":"2013-05-28T10:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=42008"},"modified":"2025-07-02T01:25:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T08:25:17","slug":"mojangs-scrolls-out-next-week-watch-the-trailer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/mojangs-scrolls-out-next-week-watch-the-trailer\/","title":{"rendered":"Mojang&#8217;s Scrolls out next week &#8211; watch the trailer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mojang, the developer of indie phenomenon <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/minecraft.en.softonic.com\/\">Minecraft<\/a><\/strong> has announced the open beta of its next game, Scrolls. On June 3rd, you will be able to buy access to the game on Windows and Mac for $20.  Like Minecraft, it will be fully playable at launch, and regularly updated with new features.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2013\/05\/scrollsWallpaper_art.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Scrolls\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-42009\" srcset=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2013\/05\/scrollsWallpaper_art.jpg 600w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2013\/05\/scrollsWallpaper_art-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2013\/05\/scrollsWallpaper_art-238x133.jpg 238w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Watch the trailer for Scrolls below. It is a fantasy strategy role playing game. It combines trading card gaming (like Magic: the Gathering) with board game ideas, and looks like an interesting attempt to make a strategy card game that&#8217;s accessible.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Start of Brightcove Player --><\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\nBy use of this code snippet, I agree to the Brightcove Publisher T and C \nfound at https:\/\/accounts.brightcove.com\/en\/terms-and-conditions\/. \n--><\/p>\n<p><object><\/object><\/p>\n<p><!-- \nThis script tag will cause the Brightcove Players defined above it to be created as soon\nas the line is read by the browser. If you wish to have the player instantiated only after\nthe rest of the HTML is processed and the page load is complete, remove the line.\n--><br \/>\nbrightcove.createExperiences();<\/p>\n<p><!-- End of Brightcove Player --><\/p>\n<p>Scrolls is Mojang&#8217;s third game, after Minecraft and the still in development side scrolling action game Cobalt. It almost wasn&#8217;t called Scrolls, after the The Elder Scrolls publisher Bethesda claimed copyright over the word &#8216;scrolls&#8217;. Thankfully they managed to reach an agreement allowing Mojang to continue using the name in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Card trading games have a huge following, but haven&#8217;t really crossed over to the mainstream. Can Notch&#8217;s touch make Scrolls the next Minecraft?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mojang, the developer of indie phenomenon Minecraft has announced the open beta of its next game, Scrolls. On June 3rd, you will be able to buy access to the game on Windows and Mac for $20. Like Minecraft, it will be fully playable at launch, and regularly updated with new features. Watch the trailer for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/mojangs-scrolls-out-next-week-watch-the-trailer\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mojang&#8217;s Scrolls out next week &#8211; watch the trailer&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-42008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2019"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42008"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":332872,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42008\/revisions\/332872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42008"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=42008"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=42008"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=42008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}