Mojang AB's logo
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 25 employees.[1]
Employees
Top row, left to right: Markus Persson, Jens Bergensten, Daniel Kaplan, Junkboy, Jakob Porsér, Carl Manneh, Tobias Möllstam, Aron Nieminen
Bottom row, left to right: Daniel Frisk, Mattis Grahm, Lydia Winters, Henrik Pettersson, Leonard Axelsson, Jon Kågström, Kristoffer Jelbring, Marc Watson.
Current employees
| Name | Avatar | Position: help.mojang.com[1] mojang.com/about[2] |
Favorite games | Special talent | Notes | About: Mojang AB: Employees[notes 1] | |
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| Markus 'Notch' Persson | File:Notchy.png | Founder of Mojang and creator of Minecraft.net Game Developer |
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 |
| Jens 'jeb_' Bergensten | File:Jens - Mojang avatar.png | Lead programmer/designer on Minecraft Game Developer |
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 | Business developer Business Developer |
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 Art Director |
Wild Guns, Metal Slug, Full Throttle | Laying down digital mosaic. | @jnkboy | Very mysterious. | Some say he doesn't even exist. | |
| Jakob 'JahKob' Porsér | Founder of Mojang and lead programmer/designer on Scrolls.com Game Developer |
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 Boss |
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 Möllstam | Web developer Force of Good |
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 Game Developer |
None | He's very bright. | His hair looks like a blue, woolen cap. | |||
| Daniel 'danfrisk' Frisk | Chief architect Chief Architect |
@danfrisk | He never works on Fridays. | ||||
| Mattis 'BomuBoi/Bomb Boy' Grahm | Artist Artist |
Time travel. | @BomuBoi | ||||
| Lydia 'MinecraftChick' Winters[3] | Director of fun Director of Fun |
Minecraft, Oregon Trail | Having bright-colored hair. | @LydiaWinters | Minecraft was the second video game she played. | ||
| Henrik 'Carnalizer' Pettersson | Artist Artist |
Boardgames, strategy games, Team Fortress 2, Half-Life, Minecraft | Extreme procrastination. | @carnalizer | Is the oldest person employed by Mojang. | ||
| Leonard 'xlson' Axelsson[4] | Web developer Web Developer |
Can recite the Alphabet entirely by memory. | @xlson | ||||
| Jon 'jonkagstrom' Kågström | Programmer on Minecraft Game Developer |
@jonkagstrom | |||||
| Kristoffer 'KrisJelbring' Jelbring[5] | Web developer Web Developer |
Being Mojang's unofficial DJ. | @KrisJelbring | ||||
| Marc Watson | Customer support manager Customer Support |
Minecraft, Mass Effect, Halo, Elder Scrolls | Performs improv comedy | @Marc_IRL | Started Minecraft Marathon[6] | ||
| Karin Severinson | Calculates all our money | ||||||
| Andreas | Customer support | ||||||
| Anton Albiin | Customer support | ||||||
| Mathias Andersson | Customer support | ||||||
| Mike Till | Customer support | Marc's former coworker | |||||
| Warren 'EvilSeph' Loo | Minecraft servers | @evilseph | |||||
| Erik 'Grum' Broes | Minecraft servers | @_grum | |||||
| Nathan 'Dinnerbone' Adams | Minecraft servers | @dinnerbone | |||||
| Nathan 'Tahg' Gilbert | Minecraft servers | @tahgtahv |
Contract employees
| Name | Task | 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 is another Mojang game which was conceived and developed by JahKob.[7] Announced on March 2, 2011,[8] 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.[9] 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,[10] 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 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.[11]
Cobalt Theme Song: File:Cobalt Menu Music.ogg
Gallery
- Mojang Logo Old.png
Old Mojang Specifications logo.
- MojangCloak.PNG
The Mojang Cloak.
- 290111993.jpg
Mojang, doing their work.
- 290122125.jpg
Mojang's trophy wall.
- ClassicShirt.JPG
First shirts ever sold by Mojang, featuring the classic Mojang Specifications logo.
Notes
- ↑ These are from the support page on minecraft.net that is no longer available, having been replaced by help.minecraft.net.
- ↑ This is from "About", then "Minecraft", on the same page as the others.
References
- ↑ a b http://help.mojang.com/customer/portal/articles/331367-employees
- ↑ http://www.mojang.com/about/
- ↑ twitter:carlmanneh/status/117235758884073473
- ↑ notchtweet:123295374076153856
- ↑ notchtweet:149643862191783937
- ↑ http://about.me/marcwatson
- ↑ http://www.scrolls.com/
- ↑ http://mojang.com/2011/03/02/introducing-our-new-game-scrolls/
- ↑ notchtweet:42841614531575808
- ↑ notchtweet:126196998826242048
- ↑ http://mojang.com/games/
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