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 such as modifications, texture packs and custom maps, exists and is available on the Internet. Modifications of the "Minecraft" code, called "mods", add a variety of gameplay changes, ranging from new blocks, new items, new mobs to entire arrays of mechanisms to craft. The modding community is responsible for a substantial supply of mods from ones that enhance gameplay, such as minimaps, waypoints, and durability counters, to ones that add to the game elements from "Pokémon", "Portal", and "The Hunger Games". To make mods easier to create and install, Mojang announced in November 2012 that it planned to add an