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Mojang AB's current logo

Mojang AB[1] (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 9 employees.[1] Mojang AB used to be 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 Neiminen, Daniel Frisk.

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.
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.
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_ He's 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 He's very bright.

Contract employees

Name Task Twitter Notes
'C418' Making the music and sounds for Minecraft. @C418 Has high self-esteem!
Kristoffer Zetterstrand Made the paintings for Minecraft. None He is the subject of a Wikipedia article!
Elathuria Working on the A.I. for Minecraft and Scrolls. None She's a girl!

Other games

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]

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Trivia

  • The "AB" in "Mojang AB" stands for Aktiebolag, which has a similar meaning to Ltd.
  • "Mojang" is actually spelled "Mojäng"

References

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