Mojang AB (full Swedish name: Mojäng Aktiebolag—Swedish for "Gadget Ltd."), pronounced /mʊˈjɛŋ/[1] (muu-YENG), originally Mojang Specifications, is the independent video game developer primarily known for the creation and development of Minecraft. It was founded by Markus Persson, Jakob Porsér, and Carl Manneh. Located in Stockholm, Sweden, Mojang currently has 27 employees.[2]
Employees
Top row, left to right: Markus Persson, Jens Bergensten, Daniel Kaplan, Markus Toivonen, 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 | Avatars | Position: help.mojang.com[2] mojang.com/about[3] |
Favorite games | Special talent | Notes | About: Mojang AB: Employees[notes 1] | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Markus 'Notch' Persson | File:Notchy.png | Founder of Mojang, creator of Minecraft and 0x10c 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 than the rest. |
| Daniel 'Kappische' Kaplan | Business developer Business Developer and Developer of Minecraft Pocket Edition |
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 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 [poop] success. True story. | |||
| Aron Nieminen | Lead programmer on Minecraft - Pocket Edition Game developer |
@AronThinker | He's very bright. | His hair looks like a blue, woolen cap. | |||
| Daniel Frisk | Chief architect |
@danfrisk | He never works on Fridays. | ||||
| Mattis 'BombBoy' Grahm | Artist |
Time travel. | @BomuBoi | ||||
| Lydia 'MinecraftChick' Winters[4] | Director of Fun |
Minecraft, Oregon Trail | Having bright-colored hair. | @LydiaWinters | Minecraft was the second video game she played. | ||
| Henrik 'Carnalizer' Pettersson | Artist |
Boardgames, strategy games, Team Fortress 2, Half-Life, Minecraft | Extreme procrastination. | @carnalizer | Is the oldest person employed by Mojang. | ||
| Leonard 'xlson' Axelsson[5] | Web Developer |
Can recite the entire alphabet by memory. | @xlson | ||||
| Jon Kågström | Programmer on Minecraft Game developer |
@jonkagstrom | Used to work as an AI programmer at DICE on Battlefield. | ||||
| Kristoffer Jelbring[6] | 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[7] | ||
| Karin Severinson | Finances | @KarinSeverinson | |||||
| Anton Albiin | Customer support | @EttGlasVatten | |||||
| Mathias Andersson | Customer support | @91maan90 | |||||
| Mike Till | Customer support | US Army veteran | @E_Claymore | Worked with Marc at previous job | |||
| Warren 'EvilSeph' Loo | Game developer | @evilseph | Member of the Bukkit team. | ||||
| Erik 'Grum' Broes | Game developer | @_grum | Member of the Bukkit team. | ||||
| Nathan 'Dinnerbone' Adams | Game developer | @dinnerbone | Member of the Bukkit team. | ||||
| Måns Olson | Game developer | @MansOlson | |||||
| Johan Bernhardsson | Game developer | @jbernhardsson | |||||
| Patrick Geuder | Data analysis. | @pgeuder | |||||
| Owen Hill | TBA | @Bopogamel | Former PC Gamer web editor. | ||||
| Name | Avatar | Position: help.mojang.com[2] mojang.com/about[3] |
Favorite games | Special talent | Notes | About: Mojang AB: Employees[notes 1] |
Contractors
| 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 | The subject of a Wikipedia article, and Notch is his (former) brother-in-law! |
| Paul Spooner | Assisted with the development of Minecraft's trees. | @dudecon | |
| Nikolaj Nyholm | Has assisted Mojang with their early business development. | @nikolaj | |
| 57Digital | Developers of Minecraft Explorer, the official Minecraft companion guide for iOS | @57digital | Jamie Chapman and Luke Dixon |
Former employees
| Name | Position | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hayden 'Dock' Scott Baron | Artist | @Docky | Joined in December 2009,[8] but left shortly after in February 2010 due to work-related issues. |
| Andreas 'hideous' Jörgensen | Customer support | @hideous_ | |
| Joe Liu | Customer support | @JoeBleh | Worked with Marc Watson at a previous job. |
| Nathan 'Tahg' Gilbert | Minecraft server development | @tahgtahv | Former member of the Bukkit team. |
Other games
Scrolls
Scrolls
Scrolls is another Mojang game which was conceived and developed by JahKob.[9] Announced on March 2, 2011,[10] 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.[11] 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,[12] 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.[13]
Cobalt Theme Song: File:Cobalt Menu Music.ogg
0x10c
0x10c
Following the end to his involvement with Minecraft, Notch began pre-production of an alternate reality space game set in the distant future in March 2012. On April Fools' Day, Mojang launched a satirical website for Mars Effect, citing the lawsuit with Bethesda as an inspiration.[14] However, the gameplay elements remained true and on April 4, Mojang revealed 0x10c as a space sandbox title.[15]
Gallery
- Mojang Logo Old.png
Mojang's old logo.
- Mojang Logo 1.png
The first Mojang Specifications logo.
- Mojang 0x10c Logo.jpg
The Mojang logo featured in 0x10c.
- 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.
Mojang building directory bored with a note from some Griefers[16]
Mojang Pax display.[17]
Notes
- ↑ a b These were from the support page on minecraft.net that is no longer available, having been replaced by help.minecraft.net, which was later replaced with help.mojang.com.
- ↑ This was from "About", then "Minecraft", on the same page as the others.
References
- ↑ http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mojäng
- ↑ a b c http://help.mojang.com/customer/portal/articles/331367-employees
- ↑ a b http://www.mojang.com/about/
- ↑ twitter:carlmanneh/status/117235758884073473
- ↑ notchtweet:123295374076153856
- ↑ notchtweet:149643862191783937
- ↑ http://about.me/marcwatson
- ↑ The Minecraft artist is Dock!
- ↑ http://www.scrolls.com/
- ↑ http://mojang.com/2011/03/02/introducing-our-new-game-scrolls/
- ↑ notchtweet:42841614531575808
- ↑ notchtweet:126196998826242048
- ↑ http://mojang.com/games/
- ↑ http://www.shadowlocked.com/201203312487/news/minecraft-creator-scores-april-fool-with-project-mars-effect.html
- ↑ http://www.forbes.com/sites/alexknapp/2012/04/03/mojang-registers-website-for-its-new-game-0x10c/
- ↑ https://twitter.com/jnkboy/status/240502439965491200
- ↑ https://twitter.com/Dinnerbone/status/241726943240785920
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![Mojang building directory bored with a note from some Griefers[16]](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/minecraft_gamepedia/images/3/32/Mojang_office_griefers.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/120?cb=20200126222605)
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