Minecraft who is notch

Notch left the game in after selling it to Microsoft for over 2 billion dollars. He has since worked on other games and created quite the infamous reputation for himself through his Twitter feed. Notch's real name is Markus Alexej Persson. He was born on June 1st, in Stockholm, Sweden. He started programming at the ripe age of seven, on his dad's home computer.

He used his dad's magazine subscriptions to teach himself the basics of coding, and by the time he was eight, he had created his first game. In , he went on to join a programming company called King famous for the Candy Crush saga. He left in to work for Jalbum, but soon left that company too, after Minecraft began to gain traction in the gaming community. Minecraft went on to become one of the world's most popular games in the world, and the rest is history.

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Main Page All Pages. Minecraft Minecraft Earth Minecraft Dungeons. Useful pages. Minecraft links. Gamepedia support Report a bad ad Help Wiki Contact us. Explore Wikis Community Central. Register Don't have an account? Markus Persson. View source. History Talk See also: Wikipedia: Markus Persson. You must login or create an account to comment. Skip to main content Minecraft player's worst nightmare. Kyle Orland. They further snubbed him for Minecraft 's ten-year anniversary. It's not surprising: In just a few years, Notch was accused of homophobia , transphobia, and racism — a stark reversal from a developer who, in , stated that Minecraft was a genderless world and that every entity within Minecraft was homosexual.

Perhaps it's that Notch is lonely, alienated by his billions. Or maybe he's just untouchable. Finally, in August , Notch deleted his Twitter account on the curious condition that Game Maker's Toolkit, another Twitter account, " drop the politics. Since then, Notch has been talking about creating a new game studio , and his talent as a developer hasn't been argued.

Surprisingly, little is known about the isolated developer's personal life beyond his acerbic online persona.