Talk:Mojang Studios

On the topic of how Mojang and Microsoft Studios and so forth are presented
Hello, would you be able to verify whether the introductory paragraphs on this page are correct, as far as they go? I'd seen a chart shared from Discord that illustrates that within Microsoft Studios, there is a Minecraft Studio, and that there are five different offices, of which Mojang / Stockholm is one.

I'm also still not sure what the UK, China, Japan and Redmond studios do / what their roles are, aside from having a vague notion that the Redmond one works more with the Bedrock editions. And I assume the China studio works with that government's special requirements, which I can't recall at the moment.

Also I was wondering if Mojang is still Mojang AB, since the acquisition, or is that no more?

Thanks, hope all is well, – Sealbudsman talk/contr 22:34, 5 July 2017 (UTC)


 * Hi! I went over them and edited the page to reflect it. Mojang AB is still a legal entity, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Microsoft. So all Mojang employees are also Microsoft employees. Stockholm/Mojang is considered the home office of the Minecraft studio- that is where the decisions regarding the Minecraft franchise are made. Jonas Mårtensson & Matt Booty are the heads of the Minecraft studio. The Minecraft studio shares a single studio budget & studio vision between all locations and the heads of the studio report to Phil Spencer, who is the head of Xbox and Microsoft Studios.


 * The UK office works closely with our platform partners in Europe as well as partner studio 4J Studios. Primary testing and production for the console editions occurs there. The China office works closely with the partner studio NetEase. Japan works closely with our platform partners in Japan/Asia and we will hopefully soon have a community coordinator based out of that office & official livestreams from that office as well. Redmond, like Stockholm, assists with all the editions. Pretty much all teams this point are spread out across both Stockholm & Redmond offices, though Education Edition is developed primarily in Redmond and Java Edition is developed primarily in Stockholm. Hope this helps! Feel free to ping me anytime with questions. :) --HelenAngel (talk) 01:00, 6 July 2017 (UTC)


 * Thanks, ! I have more questions actually, drawing on what you mentioned here:
 * NetEase licenses which editions for China players?
 * In the context of the UK + Japan offices, what are 'Platform partners'? that's console edition platforms, or?
 * In what kinds of ways do Redmond 'assist with' all the editions? And same question about Stockholm.
 * What does 'single studio vision' mean, practically speaking?
 * 'Nearly all teams are spread out across both ... offices' -- what teams are you referring to, that are spread out?
 * For Matt Booty and Jonas Mårtensson, what are their roles?
 * What kinds of decisions are made by Mojang, and what kinds of decisions are made by Phil Spencer, who the heads of the studio report to?
 * Thanks for being available to sate my curiosity : ) – Sealbudsman talk/contr 20:03, 26 July 2017 (UTC)

Pronunciation
in Swedish and in American is missing. What happened to it? – Nixinova   22:10, 12 July 2017 (UTC)


 * It was never there. The English and Swedish links were both redlinks when I first added those pronunciation keys. I was hoping some kind person would generate the files -- and made the English one : ) The Swedish one may be somewhat more difficult, though, depending how easy it is to find a Swedish text reader? –  Sealbudsman talk/contr 22:22, 12 July 2017 (UTC)


 * Also now that I look at it, the Swedish IPA should probably be used rather than the English IPA... – Sealbudsman talk/contr 22:23, 12 July 2017 (UTC)

Big graphic with old avatars
Does anyone else think the big graphic with the old avatars (and list of employees) is entirely redundant? I kind of want to get rid of it. – Sealbudsman talk/contr 17:09, 26 July 2017 (UTC)

Tables with avatars
Three things: Feedback? – Sealbudsman talk/contr 17:17, 26 July 2017 (UTC)
 * 1) I would like to replace old-style avatars with the new-style avatars, where available.
 * 2) I would like to add a photos from their wiki page (from their Person box) where avatars are unavailable.
 * 3) I would like to make photos/avatars not-so-tall (maybe x75px high) because otherwise it makes the table unnecessarily giant.