The Xbox 360 adaptation of Minecraft will follow the same launch strategy as the PC version, releasing it first as a beta, according to the game's developer Markus "Notch" Persson.

In an interview with Develop, Notch revealed a few details about the upcoming Xbox Live Arcade version of his hit indie world building gfame, Minecraft.

"The way we’re going to do it is similar to how we did Minecraft on the PC," Notch said. "So we’ll do a beta version first or something like that and then try to get feedback – find out which parts are actually fun to do, what do you like doing when playing on the console as opposed to the PC. I think there will be a big overlap in terms of both console and PC players, and they can help us figure it out."

Notch also address the control scheme, saying: "So the things we are starting with right now is just trying to make the game playable on 360. But the biggest challenge at the moment is figuring out the crafting, because just porting it straight out the box turns what is really fun on PC into boring data entry on a 360 pad. That’s the thing we are working on right now. The Kinect features are going to be one of the more interesting aspects, too."

In the same interview, Mojang's Daniel Kaplan added that the XBLA adaptation of the game will not support mods.

"It will be the full game but it will be different because stuff like mods won’t be on the Xbox version because its really hard to test out to see if they don’t do anything nasty, but maybe we will be able to create stuff like that later on.

"The update frequency will not be that fast as we have to test everything to make sure it doesn’t break the Xbox system," Kaplan said.

Last week, Notch revealed that Minecraft has now sold 3 million units, an amazing feat from the games humble beginnings. The full version of the game is slated to arrive this November, with the Xbox 360 and Android version of the game to follow.

Via [Develop]

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