Mojang AB
Mojang AB[1] (Full Swedish name; Mojäng Aktiebolag—Swedish for "Gadget Ltd."), originally Mojang Specifications, is the indie joint-stock company responsible for the creation and development of Minecraft, and some other games. Located in Stockholm, Sweden, Mojang currently has 17 employees.[1]
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[edit] Employees
[edit] Current employees
| Name | Position[1] | Favorite games | Special talent | Notes | About: Mojang AB: Employees[notes 1] | |
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| Markus 'Notch' Persson | Founder of Mojang and creator of Minecraft.net | Dungeon Master 2, Doom, X-Com | Can look directly at the sun with only minor permanent damage. | @notch | Used to have a great hat, gave it away, now has a new hat. | Minecraft is the brainchild of Markus Persson. Rumors have it that he programmed it during a power outage in the summer of 1812 while he was carrying infants out of a burning church which was built on the back of a giant possum. Also he is 11'6" tall and glows in the dark.[notes 2]
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| Jens 'jeb_' Bergensten | Lead programmer/designer on Minecraft | Starcraft, Doom 2, Don’t Look Back | Eating cheese doodles with chopsticks | @jeb_ | He's a redditor! | Fun Fact #328: The facial hair right below his lower lip is brighter then the rest. |
| Daniel 'Kappische' Kaplan | Some kind of biz guy | Street Fighter IV, Tetris DS, Zelda: A Link to the Past | Typing very fast. | @Kappische | On his Skype picture he looks like a pirate. | |
| Markus 'Junkboy' Toivonen | Art developer | Wild Guns, Metal Slug, Full Throttle | Laying down digital mosaic. | @jnkboy | Very mysterious. | Some say he doesn't even exist. |
| Jakob 'JahKob' Porser | Founder of Mojang and lead programmer/designer on Scrolls.com | X-Com 2, Master of Magic, Diablo 2 | Recursive for loops. | @JahKob | Will be making another game (Scrolls) along with Minecraft. | His pants defy gravity and suspenders alike. |
| Carl Manneh | Founder of Mojang and the CEO | FIFA 10, Resident Evil, Tetris | Cloning himself. | @carlmanneh | Used to be Notch's old boss. | His last name sounds like "money" and he is Mojang's business guy. Coincidence? |
| 'Tobias Mollstam' | Web guy | Developing tight webs to capture customers. | @mollstam | One day he decided to eat failure and shit success. True story. | ||
| 'Aron Nieminen' | Lead programmer on Minecraft - Pocket Edition | None | He's very bright. | His hair looks like a blue, woolen cap. | ||
| Daniel 'danfrisk' Frisk | Web guy | @danfrisk | He never works on Fridays. | |||
| Henrik 'Carnalizer' Pettersson | Art developer 2 | Boardgames, strategy games, Team Fortress 2, Half-Life, Minecraft | Extreme procrastination. | @carnalizer | Is the oldest person employed by Mojang. | |
| Mattis 'BomuBoi/Bomb Boy' Grahm | He is cute | Time travel. | @BomuBoi | |||
| Lydia 'MinecraftChick' Winters[2] | Director of Fun | Minecraft, Oregon Trail | Having bright-colored hair. | @MinecraftChick | Minecraft was the second video game she played. | |
| Leonard 'xlson' Axelsson[3] | Web guy | Can recite the Alphabet entirely by memory. | @xlson | |||
| Kristoffer 'KrisJelbring' Jelbring[4] | Web guy | Being Mojang's unofficial DJ. | @KrisJelbring | |||
| Jon 'jonkagstrom' Kagstrom | AI Programmer for Minecraft | @jonkagstrom | ||||
| Karin Severinson | Calculates all our money | |||||
| Marc Watson | Customer Support Manager | Minecraft, Mass Effect, Halo, Elder Scrolls | Performs improv comedy | @Marc_IRL | Started Minecraft Marathon[5] | |
| Name | Position | Favorite games | Special talent | Notes | About: Mojang AB: Employees [notes 1] |
[edit] Contract employees
| Name | Task | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Daniel 'C418' Rosenfeld | Making the music and sounds for Minecraft. | @C418 | Has high self-esteem! |
| Kristoffer Zetterstrand | Made the paintings for Minecraft. | @Zetterstrand | He is the subject of a Wikipedia article, and Notch is his brother-in-law! |
[edit] Other games
[edit] Scrolls
Scrolls is another Mojang game which was conceived and developed by JahKob.[6] Announced on March 2, 2011,[7] it aims to combine elements from trading card games and traditional board game in the strategy genre. It is unknown who else in Mojang is working on Scrolls; however, Notch has confirmed that he is still dedicating his time to Minecraft.[8] In August 2011, Mojang was threatened with legal action by the legal team representing ZeniMax Media, with the accusation being that the title "Scrolls" infringes on the The Elder Scrolls trademark, a series of role-playing video games published by Bethesda Softworks (a ZeniMax Media subsidiary). In mid-October 2011, the court case was won by Mojang,[9] and one employee described the outcome as "the court saw it from our side". No further action will be taken against Mojang, and the name, "Scrolls" will remain.
[edit] Cobalt
Cobalt is a game developed by Oxeye Game Studio and published by Mojang. Cobalt is an action game of "running, jumping, rolling, shooting, throwing, dancing, hacking, rolling, flying, sliding, climbing, looting, deflecting, racing, piñata-ing, passing, scoring… and even more rolling!" Cobalt is written in Lua and will be released for Windows, Mac and Linux this autumn, although it will be released for Windows first.[10]
Cobalt Theme Song:
[edit] Gallery
Mojang's current logo.
Old Mojang Specifications logo.
The M Team, working hard to make games.
Mojang's employees, in their Mojang suits.
An average day at the office.
Another average day at the office.
The Mojang Cloak.
The average Minecraft developer.
JahKob in real life.
Jeb in real life.
Junkboy.
Working hard in Mojang.
Mojang, doing their work.
Mojang's trophy wall.
First shirts ever sold by Mojang, featuring the classic Mojang Specifications logo.
[edit] Notes
- ↑ a b These are from the support page on minecraft.net that is no longer available, having been replaced by help.minecraft.net.
- ↑ This is from "About", then "Minecraft", on the same page as the others.
[edit] References
- ↑ a b http://help.mojang.com/customer/portal/articles/331367-employees
- ↑ twitter:carlmanneh/status/117235758884073473
- ↑ notchtweet:123295374076153856
- ↑ notchtweet:149643862191783937
- ↑ http://about.me/marcwatson
- ↑ http://www.scrolls.com/
- ↑ http://mojang.com/2011/03/02/introducing-our-new-game-scrolls/
- ↑ notchtweet:42841614531575808
- ↑ notchtweet:126196998826242048
- ↑ http://mojang.com/games/
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