Mojang 2012, Mojang was co-developing a video game codenamed "Rex Kwon Do" alongside an undisclosed developer. Before the title had reached a significant stage of development, Mojang cancelled the collaboration, due to their lack of involvement and influence on the project. In March 2012, Persson revealed that he would be designing a space sandbox game. Although Mojang teased with an April Fools' Day website based around "Mars Effect" (citing the Bethesda lawsuit), it was confirmed that the game was indeed in development, albeit with a different name. On 4 April, Mojang revealed the game's title to be "0x10", set in the
Markus Persson adventure game. Professionally he had worked as a game developer for King for over four years, until 2009. Afterwards he worked as a programmer for Jalbum. He is also one of the founders of "Wurm Online", though he no longer works on it. Outside of work, he has made seven games for competitions. He is the central figure of "", a documentary by 2 Player Productions about the rise of "Minecraft" and Mojang. Persson is a member of the Swedish chapter of Mensa. On 13 August 2011, he married Elin Zetterstrand. On 15 August 2012, he announced that he was