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 as Java is known to be. However, Mojang developer Tommaso Checchi reassured fans on Reddit that modding was "too important" to "Minecraft" for the Java-based versions to be discontinued. Mojang released version 1.9 of "Minecraft" for the PC in early 2016, and with this update the company promised that the creation and updating of mods would be significantly simplified. Previous updates have been known to break available mods, forcing creators to spend considerable time updating them. In April 2017, Mojang announced the upcoming creation of a so-called "Minecraft Marketplace", where players would be able to sell user-created content for the