Markus Notch Perrson, The Minefather
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Markus Alexej Persson, more commonly known as Notch, is the creator of Minecraft and the owner of Mojang AB.
Notch is Code Hero of the Month of November 2011!
Notch made the world safe for indy games with Minecraft bootstrapping through fan support and as we have just launched our preorder for Code Hero Beta, we are crossing our brain cells and studying the sciences of indycraft at the School That Notch Built. Notch, you are my code hero and I hope we can help make you proud of the indy gaming that you've liberated!
-Alex
Creation Myth
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. Later he started working as a game developer for King.com, which he left after four years to work as a programmer over at Jalbum. During this time he also 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.
Buy Minecraft! (As though there is anyone who hasn't already played and bought it!)
