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Markus Persson

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Markus Persson

b. 1979

Swedish video game programmer (born 1979)

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Markus Alexej Persson, known by the pseudonym Notch, is a Swedish video game programmer and designer. He is the creator of Minecraft, the best-selling video game in history. He founded the video game development company Mojang Studios in 2009.

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The story of Markus Persson, told in moments.

2009 Event

Releases the first public version of Minecraft. Blocky graphics. No tutorial. No story. Players mine, craft, and build whatever they want. He codes it mostly alone, working at a game studio during the day and on Minecraft at night.

2014 Event

Sells Mojang and Minecraft to Microsoft for $2.5 billion. He's 35. He writes a blog post explaining he doesn't want the responsibility of being a symbol. He just wants to make games. He takes the money.

2015 Life

Buys a $70 million mansion in Beverly Hills, the most expensive home sale in the city that year. Tweets about loneliness. Throws lavish parties. Tweets about emptiness. The paradox of getting everything you thought you wanted.

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talked about it all the time, and so it was always on my mind

s thirteen. His family was involved in the synagogue and had many Jewish friends. Of the Holocaust, he said that his parents "talked about it all the time, and so it was always on my mind". His father...

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Breaking Free From Hell: The 8-Step Process to Overcome Anxiety, Depression, and Trauma

Reclaim your peace and let go of the chains of anxiety, depression, and trauma!Do you feel trapped and controlled by anxiety, depression, or trauma? Have traditional therapies and CBT exercises failed...

2024

It isn't something I enjoy admitting ... but when I was seven, eight, nine years...

sixteen and twenty relatives in the Holocaust. Spielberg found it difficult accepting his heritage; he said: "It isn't something I enjoy admitting ... but when I was seven, eight, nine years old, God...

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Spielberg uses his gifts in a very free-and-easy, American way—for humor, and fo...

Universal's inconsistent marketing. The film opened in 400 US theaters to positive reviews; Pauline Kael wrote "Spielberg uses his gifts in a very free-and-easy, American way—for humor, and for a...

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I saw Close Encounters at its first public showing in New York, and most of the ...

ds for Best Cinematography (Vilmos Zsigmond) and Best Sound Effects Editing (Frank Warner). Stanley Kauffmann wrote: "I saw Close Encounters at its first public showing in New York, and most of the...

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the most conspicuous waste since the last major oil spill, which it somewhat res...

an $92 million worldwide upon release, but most critics, and the studio heads, disliked it. Charles Champlin described 1941 as "the most conspicuous waste since the last major oil spill, which it...

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Raiders of the Lost Ark is an out-of-body experience, a movie of glorious imagin...

erson); and Best Visual Effects (Richard Edlund, Kit West, Bruce Nicholson and Joe Johnston). Roger Ebert wrote: "Raiders of the Lost Ark is an out-of-body experience, a movie of glorious imagination...

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So they tell me you want to be a picture maker. You see those paintings around t...

ctronic Media. He recalls a formative encounter with one of his favorite filmmakers, John Ford, who said: "So they tell me you want to be a picture maker. You see those paintings around the office?"...

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Omkonstruktion av matningssystem till pressverktyg

2005

Mina båtar

2024

In 1994, Spielberg took a break from directing to spend more time wit

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Stark Shifts and Ion-ion Interaction in Europium Doped YAlO3: On the Road to Quantum Computing

2001

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