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  1. Persson's most popular creation is the survival sandbox game Minecraft, which was first publicly available on 17 May 2009 [75] and fully released on 18 November 2011. Persson left his job as a game developer to work on Minecraft full-time until completion.

  2. Apr 21, 2015 · Markus Persson is a Swedish video game programmer and founder of Mojang, the software company responsible for the international smash Minecraft.

  3. Markus Alexej Persson, more commonly known under the alias Notch, is the creator of Minecraft and one of the founders of Mojang Studios. Persson started programming at the age of seven, using his father's Commodore 128.

  4. Now a jet setting billionaire after selling his popular video game Minecraft to Microsoft for $2.5 billion in 2014, the soft-spoken Swede has vowed never to create anything successful ever again.

  5. Nov 7, 2013 · Not only did he create Minecraft, one of the most popular independent titles in gaming history with more than 33 million units shipped worldwide, but he also released it to the general public...

  6. 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...

  7. Oct 2, 2023 · Markus Persson didn't create "Minecraft" in a vacuum. An avid gamer and professional video game programmer for years before he devised "Minecraft" in 2009, Persson took inspiration from many of his favorite titles, both popular and obscure.