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Markus Persson

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Markus Alexej Persson (born 1 June 1979), also known as Notch or xNotch, is a Swedish video game programmer and designer who founded the video game company Mojang alongside Carl Manneh and Jakob Porser in late 2010. [1]

93 relations: Aftonbladet, Alternate reality game, Android (operating system), April Fools' Day, Arin Hanson, Atheism, Bethesda Softworks, Beverly Hills, California, Board game, Brian Wecht, C418, Caller's Bane, Child sexual abuse, Collectible card game, Commodore 128, Condé Nast, Dan Avidan, Democratic Party (United States), Dungeon crawl, Edsbyn, Electronic Arts, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Electronica, Eurogamer, Facebook, First-person (gaming), Forbes, Fortune (magazine), FTL: Faster Than Light, Gamasutra, Game Developers Conference, Glossary of video game terms, Hillary Clinton, Human trafficking, Humble Bundle, IGN, Interactive fiction, Inverse (website), IOS, It's OK to be white, Jalbum, Java (programming language), Jens Bergensten, John Podesta, Joystiq, King (company), Kotaku, Ludum Dare, Mass Effect, Médecins Sans Frontières, ..., Mensa International, Microsoft, Minecraft, Minecraft: The Story of Mojang, Minicraft, Mojang, Oculus Rift, Oculus VR, Open world, PC Gamer, Pirate Party (Sweden), Pizzagate conspiracy theory, Player Select, Quake III Arena, Reddit, Rolling Stone, Seven Stories Press, Social privilege, Space flight simulation game, Stockholm, Straight pride, Sweden, Swedes, The Daily Beast, The Daily Dot, The Elder Scrolls, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, The Legend of Zelda, The Root (magazine), Time Inc., Tumblr, Twitter, Type-in program, Video game design, Video game industry, Video game programmer, Vox Media, White privilege, Wired (magazine), Wurm Online, YouTube, ZeniMax Media, 2 Player Productions. Expand index (43 more) »

Aftonbladet

Aftonbladet is a Swedish evening newspaper published in Stockholm, Sweden.

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Alternate reality game

An alternate reality game (ARG) is an interactive networked narrative that uses the real world as a platform and employs transmedia storytelling to deliver a story that may be altered by players' ideas or actions.

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Android (operating system)

Android is a mobile operating system developed by Google, based on a modified version of the Linux kernel and other open source software and designed primarily for touchscreen mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets.

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April Fools' Day

April Fools' Day is an annual celebration in some European and Western countries commemorated on April 1 by playing practical jokes and spreading hoaxes.

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Arin Hanson

Arin Joseph Hanson (born January 6, 1987), also known by his Internet pseudonym Egoraptor, is an American Internet personality, animator, cartoonist, comedian, voice actor and songwriter.

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Atheism

Atheism is, in the broadest sense, the absence of belief in the existence of deities.

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Bethesda Softworks

Bethesda Softworks LLC is an American video game publisher based in Rockville, Maryland.

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Beverly Hills, California

Beverly Hills is an affluent city in Los Angeles County, California, United States, surrounded by the cities of Los Angeles and West Hollywood.

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Board game

A board game is a tabletop game that involves counters or moved or placed on a pre-marked surface or "board", according to a set of rules.

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Brian Wecht

Brian Wecht (born April 22, 1975), also known by his stage and character name Ninja Brian, is an American multi-instrumental musician (but mainly keyboardist), songwriter, comedian, record producer, Internet personality, writer, actor, social media manager, and retired theoretical physicist.

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C418

Daniel Rosenfeld, (born 9 May 1989) also known as C418 (pronounced "see four eighteen"), is a German musician, producer and sound engineer best known as the composer and sound designer for the 2011 video game Minecraft.

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Caller's Bane

Caller's Bane (originally named Scrolls) is a strategy digital collectible card game developed by Mojang, which aims to combine elements from trading card games and traditional board games.

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Child sexual abuse

Child sexual abuse, also called child molestation, is a form of child abuse in which an adult or older adolescent uses a child for sexual stimulation.

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Collectible card game

A collectible card game (CCG), also called a trading card game (TCG) or many other names, is a kind of strategy card game that was created in 1993 and consists of specially designed sets of playing cards.

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Commodore 128

The Commodore 128, also known as the C128, C-128, C.

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Condé Nast

Condé Nast Inc. is an American mass media company founded in 1909 by Condé Montrose Nast, based at One World Trade Center and owned by Advance Publications.

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Dan Avidan

Leigh Daniel Avidan (born March 14, 1979), known professionally as Dan Avidan and by his stage name Danny Sexbang, is an American musician, Internet personality, singer-songwriter, comedian, and actor.

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Democratic Party (United States)

The Democratic Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Republican Party (nicknamed the GOP for Grand Old Party).

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Dungeon crawl

A dungeon crawl is a type of scenario in fantasy role-playing games in which heroes navigate a labyrinthine environment (a "dungeon"), battling various monsters, and looting any treasure they may find.

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Edsbyn

Edsbyn is a locality and the seat of Ovanåker Municipality, Gävleborg County, Sweden with 3,985 inhabitants in 2010.

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Electronic Arts

Electronic Arts Inc. (EA) is an American video game company headquartered in Redwood City, California.

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Electronic Frontier Foundation

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is an international non-profit digital rights group based in San Francisco, California.

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Electronica

Electronica encompasses a broad group of electronic-based styles such as techno, house, ambient, jungle and other electronic music styles intended not just for dancing.

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Eurogamer

Eurogamer is a website focused on video game journalism, reviews, and other features.

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Facebook

Facebook is an American online social media and social networking service company based in Menlo Park, California.

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First-person (gaming)

In video games, the first person refers to a graphical perspective rendered from the viewpoint of the player's character.

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Forbes

Forbes is an American business magazine.

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Fortune (magazine)

Fortune is an American multinational business magazine headquartered in New York City, United States.

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FTL: Faster Than Light

FTL: Faster Than Light is a space-based top-down real-time strategy roguelike game created by indie developer Subset Games, which was released for Microsoft Windows, OS X and Linux in September 2012.

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Gamasutra

Gamasutra is a website founded in 1997 that focuses on all aspects of video game development.

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Game Developers Conference

The Game Developers Conference (GDC) is the largest annual gathering of professional video game developers, focusing on learning, inspiration, and networking.

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Glossary of video game terms

This is a glossary of video game terms which lists the general terms as commonly used in Wikipedia articles related to video games and its industry.

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Hillary Clinton

Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton (born October 26, 1947) is an American politician and diplomat who served as the First Lady of the United States from 1993 to 2001, U.S. Senator from New York from 2001 to 2009, 67th United States Secretary of State from 2009 to 2013, and the Democratic Party's nominee for President of the United States in the 2016 election.

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Human trafficking

Human trafficking is the trade of humans for the purpose of forced labour, sexual slavery, or commercial sexual exploitation for the trafficker or others.

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Humble Bundle

Humble Bundle, Inc. is a digital storefront for video games, which grew out of its original offering of Humble Bundles, collections of games sold at a price determined by the purchaser and with a portion of the price going towards charity and the rest split between the game developers.

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IGN

IGN (formerly Imagine Games Network) is an American video game and entertainment media company operated by IGN Entertainment Inc., a subsidiary of Ziff Davis wholly owned by j2 Global.

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Interactive fiction

Interactive fiction, often abbreviated IF, is software simulating environments in which players use text commands to control characters and influence the environment.

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Inverse (website)

Inverse is an American digital media company covering topics such as technology, science, and culture for a millennial audience.

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IOS

iOS (formerly iPhone OS) is a mobile operating system created and developed by Apple Inc. exclusively for its hardware.

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It's OK to be white

It's okay to be white or It's OK to be white (IOTBW) is a slogan based on a poster campaign organised on the American imageboard 4chan in 2017, as a "proof of concept" that a "harmless message" would cause a "massive media shitstorm", so that the media backlash against the slogan would help convert white Americans to the far-right.

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Jalbum

Jalbum consists of shareware cross-platform software for managing and creating digital photo galleries, and a paid-for photo sharing service on which to publish them.

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Java (programming language)

Java is a general-purpose computer-programming language that is concurrent, class-based, object-oriented, and specifically designed to have as few implementation dependencies as possible.

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Jens Bergensten

Jens "Jeb" Bergensten is a Swedish video game designer.

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John Podesta

John David Podesta Jr. (born January 8, 1949) is an American political consultant who served as White House Chief of Staff to President Bill Clinton from October 20, 1998 until January 20, 2001 and as Counselor to President Barack Obama from January 1, 2014 until February 13, 2015.

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Joystiq

Joystiq was a video gaming blog founded in June 2004 as part of the Weblogs, Inc. family of weblogs, now owned by AOL.

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King (company)

King Digital Entertainment Ltd, doing business as King, is a social games development company.

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Kotaku

Kotaku is a video game website and blog that was originally launched in 2004 as part of the Gawker Media network.

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Ludum Dare

Ludum Dare (LD) (meaning 'to give a game', formerly Ludum Dare 48 (LD48), also referenced as LDJAM) is an accelerated video game development competition.

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Mass Effect

Mass Effect is a science fiction action role-playing third-person shooter video game series developed by the Canadian company BioWare and released for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and Microsoft Windows, with the third installment also released on the Wii U. The fourth game was released on Windows, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One in March 2017.

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Médecins Sans Frontières

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF; pronounced), also known in English as Doctors Without Borders, is an international humanitarian medical non-governmental organisation (NGO) of French origin best known for its projects in conflict zones and in countries affected by endemic diseases.

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Mensa International

Mensa is the largest and oldest high IQ society in the world.

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Microsoft

Microsoft Corporation (abbreviated as MS) is an American multinational technology company with headquarters in Redmond, Washington.

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Minecraft

Minecraft is a sandbox video game created by Swedish game designer Markus Persson, better known as Notch, who later went on to found Mojang, which has since been the developer and publisher of Minecraft.

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Minecraft: The Story of Mojang

Minecraft: The Story of Mojang is a 2012 documentary about the history of the company Mojang and its creation, Minecraft.

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Minicraft

Minicraft is a 2D top-down action game designed and programmed by Markus Persson, the creator of Minecraft, for the Ludum Dare #22, a 48-hour game programming competition.

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Mojang

Mojang AB ("gadget") is a Swedish video game developer and publisher founded in May 2009 under the name Mojang Specifications by game programmer Markus Persson, best known for creating the popular independent game Minecraft, a sandbox game.

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Oculus Rift

The Oculus Rift is a virtual reality headset developed and manufactured by Oculus VR, a division of Facebook Inc., released on March 28, 2016.

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Oculus VR

Oculus VR is an American technology company founded by Palmer Luckey, Brendan Iribe, Michael Antonov and Nate Mitchell in July 2012 in Irvine, California, now based in Menlo Park.

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Open world

An open world in video games is a virtual world in which the player can explore and approach objectives freely, as opposed to a world with more linear gameplay.

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PC Gamer

PC Gamer is a magazine founded in the United Kingdom in 1993 devoted to PC gaming and published monthly by Future plc.

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Pirate Party (Sweden)

The Pirate Party (Piratpartiet) is a political party in Sweden founded in 2006.

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Pizzagate conspiracy theory

Pizzagate is a debunked conspiracy theory that went viral during the 2016 United States presidential election cycle.

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Player Select

Player Select is the second studio album by American comedy supergroup Starbomb, composed of Dan Avidan and Brian Wecht of American comedy duo Ninja Sex Party and Flash animator and Internet personality Arin Hanson.

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Quake III Arena

Quake III Arena is a multiplayer-focused first-person shooter video game released in December 1999.

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Reddit

Reddit (stylized in its logo as reddit) is an American social news aggregation, web content rating, and discussion website.

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Rolling Stone

Rolling Stone is an American monthly magazine that focuses on popular culture.

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Seven Stories Press

Seven Stories Press is an independent American publishing company.

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Social privilege

In sociology, privilege is a concept used for certain rights or advantages that are available only to a particular person or group of people.

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Space flight simulation game

A space flight simulation game is a genre of flight simulator video games that lets players experience space flight to varying degrees of realism.

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Stockholm

Stockholm is the capital of Sweden and the most populous city in the Nordic countries; 952,058 people live in the municipality, approximately 1.5 million in the urban area, and 2.3 million in the metropolitan area.

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Straight pride

Straight pride is a slogan that arose in the late 1980s and early 1990s and has been used primarily by social conservative groups as a political stance and strategy.

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Sweden

Sweden (Sverige), officially the Kingdom of Sweden (Swedish), is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe.

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Swedes

Swedes (svenskar) are a Germanic ethnic group native to Sweden.

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The Daily Beast

The Daily Beast is an American news and opinion website focused on politics and pop culture.

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The Daily Dot

The Daily Dot is a digital media company covering Internet culture and life on the web.

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The Elder Scrolls

The Elder Scrolls is a series of action role-playing open world fantasy video games primarily developed by Bethesda Game Studios and published by Bethesda Softworks.

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The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is an action role-playing video game developed by Bethesda Game Studios and published by Bethesda Softworks.

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The Legend of Zelda

The Legend of Zelda is a high-fantasy action-adventure video game series created by Japanese game designers Shigeru Miyamoto and Takashi Tezuka.

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The Root (magazine)

The Root is an online magazine launched on January 28, 2008, by Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Donald E. Graham, and was owned by Graham Holdings Company through its online subsidiary, The Slate Group.

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Time Inc.

Time Inc. was an American worldwide mass media corporation founded on November 28, 1922 by Henry Luce and Briton Hadden and based in New York City.

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Tumblr

Tumblr is a microblogging and social networking website founded by David Karp in 2007, and owned by Oath Inc. The service allows users to post multimedia and other content to a short-form blog.

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Twitter

Twitter is an online news and social networking service on which users post and interact with messages known as "tweets".

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Type-in program

A type-in program, type-in listing, or sometimes just type-in, is a listing of source code printed in a computer magazine or book, meant to be entered on the computer's keyboard by the reader and then saved to cassette or disk.

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Video game design

Video game design is the process of designing the content and rules of a video game in the pre-production stage and designing the gameplay, environment, storyline, and characters in the production stage.

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Video game industry

The video game industry is the economic sector involved in the development, marketing, and monetization of video games.

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Video game programmer

A game programmer is a software engineer, programmer, or computer scientist who primarily develops codebases for video games or related software, such as game development tools.

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Vox Media

Vox Media is an American digital media company founded on July 14, 2005 as SportsBlogs Inc.

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White privilege

White privilege (or white skin privilege) is the societal privilege that benefits people whom society identifies as white in some countries, beyond what is commonly experienced by non-white people under the same social, political, or economic circumstances.

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Wired (magazine)

Wired is a monthly American magazine, published in print and online editions, that focuses on how emerging technologies affect culture, the economy, and politics.

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Wurm Online

Wurm Online is a 3D massively multiplayer online role-playing game developed by Code Club AB (formerly known as Onetoofree AB) in Motala, Sweden.

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YouTube

YouTube is an American video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California.

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ZeniMax Media

ZeniMax Media Inc. is an American video game holding company based in Rockville, Maryland.

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2 Player Productions

2 Player Productions, Limited is a video production company based in San Francisco, California.

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References

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