Agnes Larsson

Agnes Larsson (born June 13, 1989) is a Vanilla Minecraft Game Director at Mojang Studios.

Biography
Larsson was born in Falkenberg, a seaside city located in southwest Sweden, and she started to enjoy games since she was three years old. Larsson has a child and three cats, named Magnolia, Isacco and Gemina.

The public Linköping University is the educational institution in which she has participated since 2008, earning a master's degree in Applied Physics and Electrical Engineering in 2013. Before joining Mojang Studios, Larsson was employed by two companies, Configura, in Linköping, Sweden, for six months (from January to June 2013), and Scania Group, in Södertälje, Sweden, for two months (from June to July 2012).

As an employee who was introduced as a gameplay developer for Minecraft: Java Edition on August 3, 2016, Larsson led designs of new additions to Minecraft, such as icebergs, turtles and llamas. As her programming experience progressed, Larsson was made development manager and senior gameplay developer in April, 2019, then lead gameplay developer for Minecraft in April 2020 and, on March 3, 2021, she was promoted to Minecraft Vanilla Game Director.

Larsson serves as a spokesperson for Mojang Studios as she holds Minecraft workshops for children, for example. Her goal as a development manager is to create as much player happiness as possible using Minecraft Java and Bedrock updates, encompassing various gameplay styles, whereas keeping the principles of the game's inclusivity and simplicity, which include the dynamic of one block at a time. With the nickname of LadyAgnes, Agnes Larsson is known for appearing in the Minecraft Live teaser videos that show her and Jens Bergensten in a two-dimensional type of Minecraft. Nir Vaknin, a Minecraft gameplay developer, trivially told during Minecraft Live 2020 that Agnes likes to make the roofs of her houses with wool. In Minecraft Dungeons, a painting of her character on a church seems to be fancier than the other paintings and it has a cat besides her. Agnes' Minecraft character also appears in the screenshot of Mojang's blog post about the Java Edition 16w43a snapshot, where it is pictured fishing in a river biome.