Markus Persson is a renowned Swedish video game designer and programmer, best known for creating the hit game Minecraft
Markus Persson
@Designer, Facts and Childhood
Jun 1, 1979
Biography
Personal Details
- Birthday: June 1, 1979
- Nationality: Swedish
- Famous: Designer, Video Game Programmer, School Dropouts, Engineers, Computer Engineers, Miscellaneous
- Spouses: Elin Zetterstrand (2011–2012; divorced)
- Known as: Markus Alexej Persson, Notch, xNotch
- Founder / Co-Founder:
- Mojang
- Birth Place: Stockholm
Markus Persson born at
Stockholm
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Birth Place
He got married to Elin Zetterstrand, who’s more popular as ‘Ez’ in the Minecraft game, on August 13, 2011. However, the couple separated and he announced his status as single on the social networking site, Twitter, on August 15, 2012.
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Personal Life
In December 2014, he purchased a $70 million 23,000-square-foot luxurious contemporary-style bungalow in Trousdale Estates, close to Beverly Hills, California, furnished with all ultra-luxury customized facilities.
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Personal Life
Markus Alexej Persson, nicknamed as ‘Notch’, was born on June 1, 1979 in Stockholm, Sweden, into a Swedish-Finnish family. His Swedish father, Birger, was a railway employee while his Finnish mother, Ritva, worked as a nurse.
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Childhood & Early Life
He spent his first seven years in Edsbyn before moving back to Stockholm with his parents.
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Childhood & Early Life
He often spent his playtime building complex designs with Lego blocks, but when he ran into his father’s Commodore 128 home computer, he started programming and creating games on cowboys and Indians.
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Childhood & Early Life
He developed his first game, a text-based adventure game, at a tender age of eight years, after experimenting with a number of type-in programs.
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Childhood & Early Life
In 2005, he joined King.com as a game developer, but left the company in 2009 to move into Jalbum where he worked as a programmer for two years.
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Career
He founded the company Mojang AB in May 2009, along with his best friend Jakob Porser, and began developing video games under this brand.
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Career
He started producing his first sandbox video game, Minecraft, in 2009, and shifted from full-time to part-time at Jalbum, to concentrate on his creation.
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Career
He quit his job in 2010 to focus solely on Minecraft. And after the game was officially launched in 2011, he passed the lead creative authority to Jens Bergensten.
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Career
Minecraft has been released in various versions to suit all kinds of platforms, including Android, iOS, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PlayStation Vita and Windows Phone.
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Career
He created his popular game, Minecraft, a survival open-ended, messy video game, by combining his two childhood activities, in 2009, and developed and published it under his company, Mojang, in 2011.
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Major Works
He developed the 3D massively multi-player online role-playing game (MMORPG), Wurm Online, in 2012, along with his designer friend Rolf Jansson. However, he does not work on it anymore.
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Major Works
In 2014, he released his third game, Scrolls, a strategy collectible card game, developed along with Jakoc Porser using the Unity game engine, thus enabling it to be played on multiple gaming platforms.
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Major Works