Mojang’s Scrolls “rapidly approaching” alpha release

Mojang has finally announced that its next game, Scrolls, is almost ready for a closed alpha release. Just to be totally clear, that’s Scrolls the card battling game by Minecraft developer Mojang, not The Elder Scrolls, the role-playing game series by Bethesda. I know, all these scrolls must be so confusing for people who can’t read full sentences.

“We are rapidly approaching the closed alpha of Scrolls,” reads an update by design Jakob Porser on the Scrolls website.

“Although this alpha version will be far from a feature complete version of the game, it will include multiplayer matches, single player matches vs AI and the Deck Builder, where you can build your decks out of the 100+ scrolls that currently exist in the game.”

Once the alpha phase is done, the game will go into a public beta, but only for paying customers.

“If you’re wondering why we would release a game that’s obviously not finished, the reason is simple: We want your feedback in good time to help us shape Scrolls to be the next big online Collectible Card Game,” added Porser. Aaaand because they want you money to fund the game’s continued development.