Markus Persson (Notch) {Famous People}

by Laky, 5th grade

Born: 01.06.1979
Games: Minecraft, Scrolls, 0x10c etc.

He started coding on a Commodore 128 when he was seven. He first made little type-in programs, but later, he worked on bigger projects like Wurm Online. He also worked for King and Jalbum. In the early 2000s, he started to work on a game called RubyDung. It was inspired by Dwarf Fortress, but Notch scrapped the idea after playing the game Infiniminer. Then he started working on Minecraft and published the first version in 2009. This game gained such popularity, even big companies wanted it such as Google and Microsoft. Microsoft bought the game in 2014 for 2.5 billion dollars.
After that, Notch left the company.