John Wolz

Mineville

- ROLE

Game Designer


- FOR

InPvP


- DATE

September 2020 – Current


- TYPE

Minecraft Server


- URL

mineville.gg


Mineville was the first professional gaming project I worked on after arriving in Los Angeles. Mineville is an official Microsoft partnered Minecraft server featured in Minecraft Bedrock addition. Along with 6 other official servers, Mineville aims to provide players with unique experiences that are easily accessible to Minecraft players.


When I was brought onto Mineville, my role was to create new custom game modes and add additional mechanics to existing game modes. My primary job involved programming, but since we were a relatively small team, I often did a lot of design work on the projects I worked on as well. My success on Mineville lead to me being given the task of developing a second server for InPvP called Pixel Paradise in the spring of 2021. In September of 2022, I was promoted to Game Designer, overseeing the design and production of all Mineville games.


Since then, I have designed and developed content for over 30 updates to some of Mineville’s most popular modes.


Some of my more significant projects on Mineville lately are detailed below.


Prison

One of the largest projects I oversaw as a Game Designer on Mineville was the complete remake of our most popular game mode, Prison. For this project, I was tasked with redesigning the mode from the ground up. Since the remake launched in October, 2022

Prison Mine A, where new players mine blocks to access higher level mines with more valuable blocks

Custom Cell, players can purchase a variety of furniture and decorate their Prison Cell to their liking.

Promotional Material for a Gold Autominer, one of our most profitable offers.

High School

As the premier role play server on Minecraft Bedrock, one of our most popular modes is our High School mode. I frequently am tasked with designing new features for High School that provide our players with new and exciting role play experiences.

A VIP lounge that players can relax in

Marketing Material highlighting an offer that allows players to host their own Dance Party in the High School Gym

Our use of Custom UI differentiates us from Vanilla Minecraft, allowing our game modes to have a distinct style.

Skyblock

One of the most popular Minecraft modes is known as Skyblock, and we boast having the best version of the mode in Bedrock Edition. As a designer, I have been tasked with creating numerous updates to the mode which have added many purchasable and quality of life updates that make our Skyblock among the most polished and profitable games of it’s type.

Marketing art a for another Skyblock offer