The Shocking Revelation Behind the Best-Selling Video Game of All Time: A Retrospective on its Creator’s Career

Everyone has played or heard of Minecraft. Officially released in 2011, it has become a pillar of the sandbox genre thanks to its originality and the endless possibilities offered to players. But behind this beautiful picture hides a completely different reality, Minecraft would have been at the genesis of the departure of its creator. A unique developer, Notch, the father of the cube game, only wants one thing: to create innovative video games. Taken by surprise by the success of his first title, he will make a decision… Radical.

In the shadows of Minecraft

Markus Persson is a bit of a child prodigy of the last decade. At a very young age, he discovered a passion for programming and development. It was at the age of 7 that he learned the main concepts of creating a video game on his father's Commodore 128. At this point, the gears were already in motion, and Notch developed its first game the following year. Much later and after working for four years with the creators of Candy Crush Saga, King. He decides to go it alone to start working on his next game prototype. Taking inspiration from Infiniteminer, the source code of which had been published, he publishes on a forum the first build of the future video game juggernaut. In 2011, Markus' jewel was ready to be revealed to the world and its success was dazzling, then, in the process, Mojang, the parent company of Minecraft, would be created. However, everything is not rosy for its creator, a genius developer, he wishes to continue creating video game prototypes and does not want to remain in the shadow of his creation.

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