Markus Persson
Markus Persson
Markus Alexej Persson, 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...
NationalitySwedish
ProfessionGame Designer
Date of Birth1 June 1979
CityStockholm, Sweden
CountrySweden
blows mind perform
The speed at which modern CPUs perform computations still blows my mind daily.
annoy contains
Any email that contains the words 'important' or 'urgent' never are, and annoy me to the point of not replying out of principle.
alarm analog clock figuring putting remember worked
I remember disassembling and putting an old analog alarm clock together. It was a lot of fun figuring out why it still worked with that one spring missing.
against infinite limited matter power tool
Infinite power just isn't very interesting, no matter what game you're playing. It's much more fun when you have a limited tool set to use against the odds.
exploring home learning sitting teens
I never really had the fun teens of exploring the world because I was sitting at home, learning programming.
computer controlled experience future games operating pc seem sliding taking towards worried
I'm worried about the future of computer operating systems, as they all seem to be sliding towards a more controlled experience, taking away much of what makes PC games so much fun.
build car paid paint piece sell software
If you build a car, you can only sell it once. If you paint a fence, you only get paid for it once. If you create a piece of software that's essentially free to reproduce, you can keep getting paid over and over perpetually.
basically came destroyed dungeon genre good
I really wanted to make a dungeon crawler, but this game came out, 'Legend of Grimrock 2,' which was, like, the perfect dungeon crawler. It basically destroyed the genre for me, and no way could I make a game that good in that genre.
computer likes programmer
I'm not an entrepreneur. I'm not a CEO. I'm a nerdy computer programmer who likes to have opinions on Twitter.
censored developer people
I guess people feel like they kind of know me. The game developer me, or the Twitter persona, that's Notch. It's a censored version. The real me is Markus.
run turn work
I've never run a company before, and I don't want to feel like a boss. I just want to turn up and do my work.
code edit favorite great hot java rapid results running super tool
Specifically, my favorite tool in Java is hot code swapping in debug mode, meaning I can edit the code while the game is running and immediately see the results in the running game. This is super great for rapid tweaking.
brand business came consoles desire developed intended player port
If I had intended for 'Minecraft' to end up on consoles, I wouldn't have developed the game in Java. The decision to port the game to consoles came from a combination of player requests, a desire to play around with the brand on different platforms, and some interesting business deals.
I definitely think 'Minecraft' is a freak thing. There's no way you could replicate it intentionally.