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      • When he started Minecraft, in summer 2009, he was on his own. Over the course of a weekend in May, he wrote a basic game, which mashed up others such as Dwarf Fortress and Infiniminer into something entirely its own, and mentioned it on the TIGSource forum -- a site for independent games players and creators.
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  1. Oct 26, 2024 · Markus Alexej Persson, more commonly known under the alias Notch, is the creator of Minecraft and one of the founders of Mojang Studios.

    • June 1, 1979 (age 45) [2]
    • Game developer
    • Swedish
    • Markus Alexej Persson
  2. Markus Alexej Persson (/ ˈpɪərsən / ⓘ PEER-sən, Swedish: [ˈmǎrːkɵs ˈpæ̌ːʂɔn] ⓘ; born 1 June 1979), also known as Notch, is a Swedish video game programmer and designer. He is the creator of Minecraft, which is the best-selling video game in history. He founded the video game development company Mojang Studios in 2009.

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    • Notch’s Goodbye Letter
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    Persson started programming at the age of seven, using his father's Commodore 128. He produced his first game (a text-adventure) at the age of eight, with the help of type-in programs. In 2005 he started working as a game developer for King.com, which he left in 2009 to work as a programmer at Jalbum. He is also one of the founders of Wurm Online. ...

    This letter, made by Notch, announces his departure from Mojang [SOURCE]. "I don’t see myself as a real game developer. I make games because it’s fun, and because I love games and I love to program, but I don’t make games with the intention of them becoming huge hits, and I don’t try to change the world. Minecraft certainly became a huge hit, and p...

    Notch has released much of his work, including, but not limited to: Games: 1. Droj, a multiplayer game. 2. DachonB, a gravity based shooter. 3. Wurm Online, an MMO featuring sandbox elements similar to Minecraft. 4. LogicHex, a hexagonal logic gate builder. 5. Infinite Mario Bros, a Super Marioclone featuring an endlessly-long level. 6. Takns,a str...

    Notch on his phone.
    Notch wearing his iconic black fedora.
    Notch smiling.
    Notch with his fans at MinecraftCon 2010.
    On June 1, 2011, Notch posted on Twitter that he was 25 years old. 25is 32, which was his age at the time.
    Notch programmed the Minecraft splash screen to display "Happy Birthday, Notch!" all day on June 1. This was removed in Java Edition 1.8.5.
  3. Sep 15, 2014 · Markus ‘Notch’ Persson’s Minecraft is a blocky video game with no rules -– but it has humbled a £40-billion industry

  4. Nov 5, 2013 · Minecraft: The Unlikely Tale of Markus “Notch” Persson and the Game that Changed Everything. by Daniel Goldberg and Linus Larsson. Someone on the fringes might regard what Markus did as...

  5. Oct 2, 2023 · A Swedish gamer who made software for a series of small software companies, he's a billionaire because of "Minecraft," who has also publicly struggled with success, his past, his demons, and controversy. Here's a look into the complicated history and present of "Minecraft" mastermind Markus "Notch" Person.

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  7. Sep 16, 2011 · In May of 2009, Markus Persson, better known as Notch, released the alpha version of a game called Minecraft. It operated on a unique model - players could buy discounted versions of the game ...

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