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 Nintendo's consoles, as they were the only major platforms to not officially receive "Minecraft" at the time. These clone titles include "UCraft" (Nexis Games), "" (Cypronia), "Discovery" (noowanda), "Battleminer" (Wobbly Tooth Games), "Cube Creator 3D" (Big John Games), and "Stone Shire" (Finger Gun Games). Despite this the fears were unfounded with official Minecraft releases on Nintendo consoles eventually resuming. In 2012, Mojang received offers from Hollywood producers who wanted to produce "Minecraft"-related TV shows; however, Mojang stated that they would only engage in such projects when "the right idea comes along". By February 2014, Persson revealed that Mojang was in