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Mojang AB[1] (Full Swedish name; Mojäng Aktiebolag -- Swedish for "Gadget Ltd.") is the indie joint-stock company responsible for the creation and development of Minecraft. Located in Stockholm, Sweden, Mojang currently has 11 employees.[1] Mojang AB was originally known as "Mojang Specifications".[2]

Employees

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From left to right: Markus Persson, Jens Bergensten, Daniel Kaplan, Junkboy, Jakob Porser, Carl Manneh, Tobias Mollstam, Aron Nieminen, Daniel Frisk, Henrik Pettersson, Daniel Rosenfeld.

Current employees

Name Position Favorite games Special talent Twitter Notes
Markus 'Notch' Persson Game Developer, owner of the company, creator of all things Minecraft Dungeon Master 2, Doom, X-Com Can look directly at the sun with only minor permanent damage. @notch Has a great hat.
Jens 'jeb_' Bergensten Game Developer Starcraft, Doom 2, Don’t Look Back Eating cheese doodles with chopsticks. @jeb_ He's a redditor!
Daniel 'Kappische' Kaplan Business Developer Street Fighter IV, Tetris DS, Zelda: A Link to the Past Typing very fast. @Kappische
Markus 'Junkboy' Toivonen Art Director Wild Guns, Metal Slug, Full Throttle Laying down digital mosaic. @jnkboy Very mysterious.
Jakob 'JahKob' Porser Game Developer, Notch's best friend X-Com 2, Master of Magic, Diablo 2 Recursive for loops. @JahKob Will be making another game (Scrolls) along with Minecraft.
Carl Manneh Managing Director FIFA 10, Resident Evil, Tetris Cloning himself. @carlmanneh Used to be Notch's old boss.
'Tobias Mollstam' Web Developer / Code Ninja Developing tight webs to capture customers. @mollstam
'Aron Nieminen' Game Crafter of the iOS, Android and Xperia Play versions of Minecraft None He's very bright.
Daniel 'danfrisk' Frisk Chief Architect @danfrisk
Henrik 'Carnalizer' Pettersson Artist @carnalizer
Mattis 'BomuBoi/Bomb Boy' Grahm Artist for Scrolls @BomuBoi

Contract employees

Name Task Twitter Notes
Daniel 'C418' Rosenfeld Making the music and sounds for Minecraft. @C418 Has high self-esteem!
Kristoffer Zetterstrand Made the paintings for Minecraft. @Zetterstrand He is the subject of a Wikipedia article!

Other games

Scrolls

Scrolls

Scrolls

Scrolls is another Mojang game which was conceived and developed by JahKob.[3] Announced on March 2, 2011,[4] it aims to combine elements from trading card games and traditional board game in the strategy genre. It is unknown who else in Mojang is working on Scrolls; however, Notch has confirmed that he is still dedicating his time to Minecraft.[5]

Cobalt

Cobalt

Cobalt

Cobalt is a game developed by Oxeye Game Studios and published by Mojang. Cobalt is an action game of "running, jumping, rolling, shooting, throwing, dancing, hacking, rolling, flying, sliding, climbing, looting, deflecting, racing, piñata-ing, passing, scoring… and even more rolling!" Cobalt is written in Lua and will be released for PC, Mac and Linux this fall, although it will be released for the PC first.[6]

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