Notch

Markus Persson

The Creator of Minecraft

Life

Persson borned at Stockholm, in Sweden, the 1st June 1979. Persson grew up in Edsbyn, a provincial town near Sweden earnest coast. It was in Edsbyn that Persson's father, a railboard worker, thaught him to use the family computer, a Commodore 128. When he was seven, the family moved to Stockholm. Persson fell in with a crowd of schoolboy programmers when he was thirteen, and they competed with one another to create the most impressive effects on their Atari STs.

Markus Persson

The Creator of Minecraft

Career

Computer magazines of the day would print strings of code on their back pages, which could be transcribed by the reader to create playable games. Persson borned at Stockholm, in Sweden, the 1st June 1979. By 1994, Persson knew he wanted to make games for a living, but his teachers advised him to study graphic design, which led to his first job, as a Web-designer. After two years, Persson landed a job at a Web-game company, where he worked as a programmer and designer on for no fewer than thirty Flash games. In his spare time, he continued to work on his own projects, entering competitions to make games with thight memory contraints in order to focus his creativity.

Markus Persson

The Creator of Minecraft

Achievements

When Persson began to work on Minecraft, in early 2009, he knew that this was the game he had been waiting to make. He went part-time at his job in order to free himself up to work on the game, and finally handed in his notice on his birthday, June 1st, the following year. Despite the bold step into full-time indie-game development, he never envisaged Minecraft becoming such a widespread success.

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The Creator of Minecraft

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Persson was truly a successful person, his ideas transformed into reality. (Persson is still alive) Persson is the most kind, famous person I ever seen, I admire him cause I want to make my dreams come true, like he did.