Jens Bergensten (née Thornell). Jens Bergensten Jens "Jeb" Bergensten is a Swedish video game designer. Since December 2010, he has worked for the video game developer Mojang as a programmer and game designer. He became the lead designer and lead developer of the indie sandbox game "Minecraft", after Markus "Notch" Persson stepped down from his position in December 2011. He is known by his in-game name "jeb_". Bergensten started programming his first games at age 11 using BASIC and Turbo Pascal. By age 21, he was a mapper and modder for the first-person shooter "Quake III Arena". Later he worked as a
Minecraft virtual reality devices. On 31 July 2017, Mojang released the beta version of the update allowing cross-platform play. Realms also supports the Xbox One, Windows 10, Android, iOS, and Kindle platforms. Markus "Notch" Persson began developing the game as a project. He was inspired to create "Minecraft" by several other games such as "Dwarf Fortress", "Dungeon Keeper", and later "Infiniminer". At the time, he had visualized an isometric 3D building game that would be a cross between his inspirations and had made some early prototypes. "Infiniminer" heavily influenced the style of gameplay, including the first-person aspect of the game, the