Markus Alexej "Notch" Persson (born June 1, 1979) is a Swedish video game programmer and designer. Persson is the owner of Mojang, the video game company he founded alongside Carl Manneh and Jakob Porser in late 2010.[2][3] His principle venture for founding Mojang was Minecraft, a first-person sandbox video game that has gained popularity and support since its tech demo in 2009.[4] 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.[5] Persson 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.Persson was born in Ystad,[7] Sweden to a Finnish mother and a Swedish father.[8] He lived there for the first seven years of his life.[citation needed] He began programming on his father's Commodore 128 home computer at the age of three.[9] Having experimented with various type-in programs he produced his first game at the age of eight, a text-based adventure game.[9] Professionally he had worked as a game developer for King.com for over four years, until 2009.[9] Afterwards he worked as a programmer for Jalbum.[10] He is also one of the founders of Wurm Online,[11] although he no longer works on this game.[10] Outside of work, he has made seven games for competitions[10] for the Java 4K Game Programming Contest such as "Left 4K Dead" and "Mega 4K Man".[12][non-primary source needed] He has also entered the Ludum Dare competition. He is the central figure of a documentary in development about the rise of Minecraft and Mojang called Minecraft: The Story of Mojang.Persson was born in Ystad,[7] Sweden to a Finnish mother and a Swedish father.[8] He lived there for the first seven years of his life.[citation needed] He began programming on his father's Commodore 128 home computer at the age of three.[9] Having experimented with various type-in programs he produced his first game at the age of eight, a text-based adventure game.[9] Professionally he had worked as a game developer for King.com for over four years, until 2009.[9] Afterwards he worked as a programmer for Jalbum.[10] He is also one of the founders of Wurm Online,[11] although he no longer works on this game.[10] Outside of work, he has made seven games for competitions[10] for the Java 4K Game Programming Contest such as "Left 4K Dead" and "Mega 4K Man".[12][non-primary source needed] He has also entered the Ludum Dare competition. He is the central figure of a documentary in development about the rise of Minecraft and Mojang called Minecraft: The Story of Mojang.
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