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Mojang AB[1] (literally meaning "Gadget") is the indie joint-stock company responsible for the creation and development of Minecraft. Located in Stockholm, Sweden, Mojang currently has 9 employees.[1]

Mojang is also working on another game side by side with Minecraft. Not much is known about it yet, but it is said to have something to do with board game like strategy and a "new line of geometric shapes".[2]

Mojang AB used to be known as Mojang Specifications.[3]

Employees

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From left to right: Markus Persson, Jens Bergensten, Daniel Kaplan, Junkboy, Jakob Porser, Carl Manneh, Tobias Mollstam.

The current employees are:

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
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 along with Minecraft
Daniel 'Kappische' Kaplan Business Developer Street Fighter IV, Tetris DS, Zelda: A Link to the Past Typing very fast @Kappische
Carl Manneh Managing Director FIFA 10, Resident Evil, Tetris Cloning himself @carlmanneh Used to be Notch's old boss.
Jens 'jeb_' Bergensten Back-end developer Starcraft, Doom 2, Don’t Look Back Eating cheese doodles with chopsticks @jeb_ Hes a redditor!
Markus 'Junkboy' Toivonen Art developer Wild Guns, Metal Slug, Full Throttle Laying down digital mosaic @jnkboy Very mysterious
'Tobias Mollstam' Web developer Developing tight webs to capture customers @mollstam
'Daniel "danfrisk" Frisk' Chief Architect @danfrisk
'Aron Neiminen' iOS and Android Versions of Minecraft

Contract employees:

Name Task Twitter Notes
'C418' Making the music and sounds for Minecraft @C418 Has high self-steem!
Kristoffer Zetterstrand Made the paintings for Minecraft None He has a Wikipedia article about him!

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References

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