Markus “Notch” Persson made his fortune selling the rights to his game Minecraft to Microsoft. In September 2014, after selling 15 million copies of Minecraft across gaming consoles, Persson sold out to Microsoft in a $2.5 billion cash deal.
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1 Alternate Reality, 0x10c Style
Starting in March 2012, Markus Persson embarked on an alternate reality space game that had a storyline set in the distant future. On April 1, 2012, Mojang Studios released a parody website called Mars Effect, using the lawsuit it had with Bethesda Studios at the time as a source of inspiration. As 0x10c, this game was designed as a space sandbox-style title. However, Persson discontinued working on its production as of August 2013. To this day, the game remains undeveloped but Persson did comment at one point if another Mojang Studio employee was interested in continuing with the game development’s progress, it may still yet reach completion.
Persson sold Mojang and all of its assets to Microsoft on September 15, 2014. In a lengthy blog post, Notch states “I love games and I love to program, but I dont make games with the intention of them becoming huge hits, and I dont try to change the world.” He then goes on to say that “Ive become a symbol. I dont want to be a symbol, responsible for something huge that I dont understand, that I dont want to work on.”[6]
Persson started programming at the age of seven, using his fathers Commodore 128. He produced his first game (a text-adventure) at the age of eight, with the help of type-in programs. In 2005 he started working as a game developer for King.com,[3] which he left in 2009 to work as a programmer at Jalbum. He is also one of the founders of Wurm Online.[4] After Minecraft sales grew he moved from full-time to part-time at Jalbum and then eventually left to focus full-time on Minecraft in June 2010; many of the original Mojang employees (including former CEO Carl Manneh) were also ex-Jalbum employees. After the full release of Minecraft (1.0.0), Persson transferred creative authority of the games development to Jens Bergensten.[5]
Persson left Mojang on November 5, 2014, along with the other founders. He wrote that “as soon as this deal is finalized, I will leave Mojang and go back to doing Ludum Dares and small web experiments. If I ever accidentally make something that seems to gain traction, Ill probably abandon it immediately.”[6]
Woes Between Scrolls and Servers
Despite Mojan Studios winning the right to continue using the name Scrolls as its strategy-based digital collectible card game, they renamed it anyway. Although Scrolls was announced as a game on March 2, 2011, Notch and his company discontinued working on the development of the game in June 2015. It wouldn’t be until June 2018 that it would be officially released, but as Caller’s Bane instead. It uses scroll-type cards as part of a fantasy-themed video game that’s played online in the same format as massively multiplayer online video games are. At one point, the game servers behind Scrolls was shut down before hooking up with community servers to make what has since become Caller’s Bane a free game for players to access.
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