Markus Persson Biography

Markus Persson is 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. Markus 's principal venture for founding Mojang was Minecraft a first-person sandbox video game that has gained popularity and support since its tech demo in 2009. Since the release of Minecraft Persson has gained significant notability within the video game industry having won multiple awards and establishing relations with the industry's figureheads. Markus retained his position as the lead designer of Minecraft until the game's official launch in 2011 after which he transferred creative authority to Jens Bergensten. In 2014 he left Mojang after its acquisition by Microsoft.

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