Markus Persson Markus Persson Markus Alexej Persson (; born 1 June 1979), better known as Notch, is a Swedish video game programmer and designer. He is best known for creating the sandbox video game "Minecraft" and for founding the video game company Mojang in 2010, alongside Carl Manneh and Jakob Porser. Persson's principal venture for founding Mojang was "Minecraft" which gained popularity and support since its tech demo in 2009. Since then, he has gained significant notability within the video game industry, winning multiple awards and establishing relations with the industry's figureheads. He retained his position as the lead designer of "Minecraft"
Minecraft mods (the Bedrock Edition), in the form of add-ons. Mods have influenced the main "Minecraft" game on three occasions. Mod developer Dr. Zhark added horses to the game through the "Mo' Creatures" mod. Later on he helped Mojang adapt horses for use in standard issue "Minecraft". Pistons were also originally a part of a mod too, but impressed "Minecraft"s creators so much that they added the feature to the main game. Mojang also admitted that they admired all of the work done on server side modding API Bukkit. In 2012, the Swedish company ended up hiring the lead developers of the