Mojang, the Swedish studio best known for Minecraft, has today unveiled its new game, entitled Mars Effect. In a post on the game’s website, Notch explains how the company came up with the name:

After several weeks of trying to come up with a good name for the game, we finally decided not to learn from previous experiences and pick a name that’s already kind of in use by a huge existing franchise. After playing around with names like “Elight”, “Wind Commander”, and “Steve Online”, we finally settled on the very catchy name “Mars Effect”.

While not much is currently known about the game, Mojang has released a list of features:

• Hard science fiction
• Lots of engineering
• Fully working computer system
• Space battles against the AI or other players
• A game ending that makes sense
• Abandoned ships full of loot
• Waist high walls
• Seamlessly landing on planets
• Advanced economy system
• Mining, trading, and looting

More information about the game can be found on its website, and with the hashtag #marseffect on Twitter.