Minecraft: The Story of Mojang premiered on Xbox Live on December 22, 2012, and was made available for download and streaming the following day. 2 Player Productions also uploaded the documentary to torrent index The Pirate Bay, but urged people to consider purchasing the film. Minecraft is the second feature from game culture archivists 2 Player Productions (Reformat the Planet, Penny Arcade: The Series - Season 1, Double Fine Adventure!). The documentary follows "Minecraft" developer Mojang through the development process of the game. The film also features insights from many people in the video gaming industry to discuss "Minecraft"s popularity and influence. Interviews from Persson
Crown and Council "Crown and Council" was not originally intended for public release; Pettersson, an artist who joined Mojang to work on Scrolls in 2011, used the relatively simple project to learn to code. He believed that even if the game was to be distributed one day, it would be rebuilt by "real programmers". The game was worked on over multiple months and used bits of code taken from other Mojang projects. Pettersson credits "Minecraft Pocket Edition" programmer Aron Nieminen as his programming mentor. It is the first game developed by Mojang that is released on Steam, although Mojang published Oxeye Game Studio's