He had gained interest in video games at an early age, playing The Bard's Tale and several pirated games on his father's Commodore 128 home computer, and learned to programme at age eight with help from his sister. Mojang Studios was founded by Markus Persson, a Swedish independent video game designer and programmer, in 2009. Markus Persson founded Mojang Studios in 2009. It also released various smaller games as part of game jams organised by Humble Bundle and published the externally developed Cobalt and Cobalt WASD. Apart from Minecraft, Mojang Studios has developed Caller's Bane, a digital collectable card game, Crown and Council, a turn-based strategy game, and the dungeon crawl game Minecraft Dungeons. Executives include chief executive officer Mårtensson and studio head Helen Chiang. In May 2020, Mojang was rebranded as Mojang Studios.Īs of 2021, the company employs approximately 600 people. Persson, Porsér, and Manneh subsequently left Mojang, with Jonas Mårtensson replacing Manneh. With a desire to move on with the game, Persson offered to sell his share in Mojang, and the company was acquired by Microsoft through Xbox Game Studios (then known as Microsoft Studios) in November 2014. Minecraft became highly successful, eventually the best-selling game of all time, giving Mojang sustained growth. Other early hires included Daniel Kaplan and Jens Bergensten. Following the game's release, Persson, in conjunction with Jakob Porsér, incorporated the business as Mojang AB in late 2010 and hired Carl Manneh as the company's chief executive officer. The studio inherited its name from a previous video game venture Persson had left two years prior. It was founded by the independent video game designer Markus Persson in 2009 as Mojang Specifications for the development and release of Persson's sandbox and survival video game Minecraft. 'gadget') is a Swedish video game developer based in Stockholm.
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