Jason Major

Jason Major is a former member of the Minecraft Redmond studio and a developer for Bedrock Edition. He has also written a novel. He has helped program over a dozen AAA video games including NBA Live 98, Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit and Halo 2 along with numerous others. He was born and raised in Canada but currently lives in the Seattle area with his wife and two sons.

Trivia

 * Jason contributed major changes to rabbits, which were introduced with the first Bedrock Edition rabbits for Alpha 0.13, and later ported to Java Edition 1.9.
 * During a game jam, Jason first came up with the stray, among a bunch of other mobs – Jeb "thought these particular ones fitted really well with what we were already planning &#91;for Java Edition 1.10&#93;"
 * Root beer is one of his favorite drinks and he usually has some in glass bottles by his desk.
 * He occasionally joins the official Minecraft livestreams and he was present on the livestream where the dyeable beds were previewed