Changes: Markus Persson

Revision as of 22:59, 19 December 2011

	“	2010 is almost over! I've seen it in my dreams!	„
		— Notch on December 29, 2010

Markus Alexej Persson, more commonly known as Notch, is the creator of Minecraft and the owner of Mojang AB.

Biography

Persson started programming at the age of seven, using his dad'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 over at Jalbum. At Jalbum he founded the MMORPG Wurm Online, although he no longer works on this. Outside of work he frequently takes part in competitions, including Ludum Dare, LD12 and the Java 4K Game Programming Contest. He lived in Denmark before he moved to Sweden with his parents and went to school there.

Notch has his own part of the Mojang website that can be found here.

Games and other work

Notch has released much of his work, including, but not limited to:

Games:

MEG4kMAN, a Mega Man clone featuring old-school graphics.
Left 4k Dead, a zombie shooter game inspired by Left 4 Dead.
t4kns, a real time strategy game.
Miners4k, a game kinda inspired by lemmings and diggers.
Hunters4k, a first person shooter.
Dungeon4k, a dungeon exploration game.
Sonic Racer 4k, a racing game with stolen sprites.
Dachon4k, a gravity based shooter.
l4krits, a Luxor clone.
Blast Passage, an 8-Bit mashup between Bomberman and Gauntlet.
Bunny Press, a violent puzzle game made for Ludum Dare 14.
Breaking the Tower, a slow-paced strategy game.
The Europa Arcology Incident, an RPG-style game Notch made in 48 hours for Ludum Dare 16.
Infinite Mario Bros, a Super Mario clone featuring an endlessly-long level.
Metagun, a puzzle game Notch made in 48 hours for Ludum Dare 18.
Minecraft 4k, Minecraft in less than 4kb for a Java 4kb competition.
Prelude of the Chambered, an escape game Notch made in 48 hours for Ludum Dare 21.
MiniCraft, a top-down Zelda-esque game with elements from Minecraft, made for Ludum Dare 22.

2.5d Engines:

Legend of the Chambered
First person shooter prototype in flash
Flash doom level renderer
Dungeon master type game engine in java (flash version, uses static graphics)

Photos

Notch on his phone.
Notch wearing his iconic black fedora.
MineCraft Con.JPG

Notch with his fans at Minecraftcon 2010.
Notch using his computer.
Notch (left) and Seananners (right) at the Machinima Realm Minecraft Interview; February 11th 2011.
Notch's skin in Minecraft
Notch's new hat!
Notchy.png

Notch in a cartoon style.
Notch Icon on Adweek's The Top 10 Technologists

Birthday

On June 1st 2011, Notch posted on Twitter that he was 2⁵ years old.^[2] 2⁵ is 32, which is indeed his age.
Notch programmed the Minecraft splash screen to display "Happy Birthday, Notch!" all day on the 1st of June.

References

[1] ttp://notch.tumblr.com/post/113753678/

[2] ttp://twitter.com/notch/status/75817816795787264

[2]

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 * [[Minecraft 4k]], Minecraft in less than 4kb for a Java 4kb competition.
 * [https://s3.amazonaws.com/ld48/index.html Prelude of the Chambered], an escape game Notch made in 48 hours for Ludum Dare 21.
-* [https://s3.amazonaws.com/ld48/ld22/index.html MiniCraft], an in-progress cross between Harvest Moon and Minecraft currently being made for Ludum Dare 22.
+* [https://s3.amazonaws.com/ld48/ld22/index.html MiniCraft], a top-down Zelda-esque game with elements from Minecraft, made for Ludum Dare 22.
 '''2.5d Engines:'''
 * [http://www.mojang.com/notch/chambered/ Legend of the Chambered]