Markus Persson
Markus Alexej Persson , also known as Notch or xNotch, is a Swedish video game programmer and designer who founded the video game company Mojang alongside Carl Manneh and Jakob Porser in late 2010.
Persson was born in Stockholm, Sweden, to a Finnish mother and a Swedish father onJune 1979. He lived in Edsbyn for the first seven years of his life before his family moved back to Stockholm. He began programming on his fathers Commodore 128 home computer at the age of seven. Having experimented with various typein programs he produced his first game at the age of eight, a textbased adventure game. Professionally he had worked as a game developer for King.com for over four years, until 2009. Afterwards he worked as a programmer for Jalbum. He is also one of the founders of Wurm Online, although he no longer works on this game. Outside of work, he has made seven games for competitions for the Java 4K Game Programming Contest such as Left 4K Dead and MEG4kMAN. He has also entered the Ludum Dare competition. He is the central figure of a documentary byPlayer Productions about the rise of Minecraft and Mojang called Minecraft The Story of Mojang.
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