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Mojang AB[1] (Full Swedish name; Mojäng Aktiebolag—Swedish for "Gadget Ltd."), originally Mojang Specifications, is the indie joint-stock company responsible for the creation and development of Minecraft, and some other games. Located in Stockholm, Sweden, Mojang currently has 17 employees.[1]

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, Mattis Grahm, Lydia Winters, Henrik Pettersson.

Current employees

Name Position[1] Favorite games Special talent Twitter Notes About: Mojang AB: Employees[notes 1]
Markus 'Notch' Persson Founder of Mojang and creator of Minecraft.net Dungeon Master 2, Doom, X-Com Can look directly at the sun with only minor permanent damage. @notch Used to have a great hat, gave it away, now has a new hat. Minecraft is the brainchild of Markus Persson. Rumors have it that he programmed it during a power outage in the summer of 1812 while he was carrying infants out of a burning church which was built on the back of a giant opossum. Also he is 11'6" tall and glows in the dark.[notes 2]

1. Enjoy games
2. Pick up programming
3. ????
4. Profit

Jens 'jeb_' Bergensten Lead programmer/designer on Minecraft Starcraft, Doom 2, Don’t Look Back Eating cheese doodles with chopsticks @jeb_ He's a redditor! Fun Fact #328: The facial hair right below his lower lip is brighter then the rest.
Daniel 'Kappische' Kaplan Some kind of biz guy Street Fighter IV, Tetris DS, Zelda: A Link to the Past Typing very fast. @Kappische On his Skype picture he looks like a pirate.
Markus 'Junkboy' Toivonen Art developer Wild Guns, Metal Slug, Full Throttle Laying down digital mosaic. @jnkboy Very mysterious. Some say he doesn't even exist.
Jakob 'JahKob' Porser Founder of Mojang and lead programmer/designer on Scrolls.com X-Com 2, Master of Magic, Diablo 2 Recursive for loops. @JahKob Will be making another game (Scrolls) along with Minecraft. His pants defy gravity and suspenders alike.
Carl Manneh Founder of Mojang and the CEO FIFA 10, Resident Evil, Tetris Cloning himself. @carlmanneh Used to be Notch's old boss. His last name sounds like "money" and he is Mojang's business guy. Coincidence?
'Tobias Mollstam' Web guy Developing tight webs to capture customers. @mollstam One day he decided to eat failure and shit success. True story.
'Aron Nieminen' lead programmer on Minecraft - Pocket Edition None He's very bright. His hair looks like a blue, woolen cap.
Daniel 'danfrisk' Frisk Web guy @danfrisk He never works on Fridays.
Henrik 'Carnalizer' Pettersson Art developer 2 Boardgames, strategy games, Team Fortress 2, Half-Life, Minecraft Extreme procrastination. @carnalizer Is the oldest person employed by Mojang.
Mattis 'BomuBoi/Bomb Boy' Grahm He is cute Time travel. @BomuBoi
Lydia 'MinecraftChick' Winters[2] Director of Fun Minecraft, Oregon Trail Having bright-colored hair. @MinecraftChick Minecraft was the second video game she played.
Leonard 'xlson' Axelsson[3] Web guy @xlson
Kristoffer 'KrisJelbring' Jelbring[4] Web guy Being Mojang's unofficial DJ. @KrisJelbring
Jon 'jonkagstrom' Kagstrom Programmer on Minecraft @jonkagstrom
Karin Severinson Calculates all our money
Marc Watson Customer support @Marc_IRL Started Minecraft Marathon[5]
Name Position Favorite games Special talent Twitter Notes About: Mojang AB: Employees [notes 1]

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, and Notch is his brother-in-law!

Other games

Scrolls

Scrolls

Scrolls

Scrolls is another Mojang game which was conceived and developed by JahKob.[6] Announced on March 2, 2011,[7] 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.[8] In August 2011, Mojang was threatened with legal action by the legal team representing ZeniMax Media, with the accusation being that the title "Scrolls" infringes on the The Elder Scrolls trademark, a series of role-playing video games published by Bethesda Softworks (a ZeniMax Media subsidiary). In mid-October 2011, the court case was won by Mojang,[9] and one employee described the outcome as "the court saw it from our side". No further action will be taken against Mojang, and the name, "Scrolls" will remain.

Cobalt

Cobalt

Cobalt

Cobalt is a game developed by Oxeye Game Studio 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 Windows, Mac and Linux this autumn, although it will be released for Windows first.[10]

Cobalt Theme Song: File:Cobalt Menu Music.ogg

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Notes

  1. a b These are from the support page on minecraft.net that is no longer available, having been replaced by help.minecraft.net.
  2. This is from "About", then "Minecraft", on the same page as the others.

References

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