Minecraft Coming to iOS and Android By Year’s End

Minecraft in the palm of your hand? The addictive, cubist, world building game’s creator, Markus “Notch” Persson, says yes.  Persson revealed to Gamasutra that Mojang, specifically a new team member named Aron Neiminen, is working on official ports to iOS and Android platforms this year.

This announcement is met with both excitement and a little bit of caution. The thought of being able to craft on the go is great, but at the same time, given that Minecraft itself, which is still in Beta, is a surprisingly taxing application and consistently melts laptops’ faces (including my own) with it’s memory usage, it makes us wonder how it will look and run on a more limited platform. That said, we are very interested and hopeful that Mojang can bring the same success they have seen with the PC release to their mobile endeavor.

Persson did relay that the mobile release will not contain the same updates as the original browser or download versions, but they will include features that “make sense” in relation to the touch-screen nature of the platform.