Have you ever put so much effort into a job application that you made an actual game? I sure haven't, but Brendan Sullivan (@artofsully on Twitter) did just that. 

As part of an art test for an application to Mojang, Sullivan was asked to “reimagine the look/style of Minecraft for a hypothetical new game.” Instead of turning in some mockup concepts as was probably expected, Sullivan “went a bit overboard” and developed an actual prototype for the imagined “Minecraft Tactics.”

Unsurprisingly, the concept fits Minecraft perfectly. As Sullivan points out in another tweet, the core task in Minecraft is gathering resources which suits the real-time strategy genre easily. The gifs posted to Sullivan's Twitter timeline show off units being selected to fight one another and mine for resources. There's got to be a “construct additional pylons” joke to be made here.

Sully @artofsully · Sep 19, 2019