Discovery planned for the Wii U eShop

The Wii U is getting another blockworld game at some point in the future, as developer Noowanda has confirmed plans to bring “Discovery” to the eShop.

Just like in Minecraft, Discovery allows players to explore a giant world – one of which that is made of blocks and can be me modified. It’s possible to create a house, villages, cities, constructions or dig deep under the earth.

Discovery has landed on a number of platforms since releasing in 2012. Wii U will be one of the first systems to be receiving the newest 2.0 update. As Noowanda informed us, the update’s most important features are as follows:

– support for multi-threading thus providing very smooth and continuous gameplay (smoothes out block placement/removal, loading/generating of new parts in the world)
– more accurate lighting compared to 1.x versions (block lights can light up to 15 blocks far, sunlight propagates correctly into caves and buildings)
– support for shaders on block materials, real-time shadows, HDR-rendering and advanced post processing effects
– new block-types
– slopes and stairs can now built “headlong”

Development is said to be already finished. Currently, Noowanda is waiting on real hardware to test/debug as well as “fine-tune to deliver a satisfying performance for Nintendo fans.” The studio expects to receive hardware within the next few weeks.

We’ll keep you updated on Discovery as we hear more. For now, check out one of the game’s original trailers below.