About the creator

Career

Game designer, Developer

Born

1 June 1979

Place of birth

Stockholm

Known games

4

Markus Persson is a self-taught game designer and programmer who created Minecraft and founded Mojang. Before that project, he made Wurm Online with Rolf Jansson and worked on browser games at King.com. His early career included short production cycles and small game-making competitions. These projects combined technical constraints with experimentation and helped him develop his approach to building and finishing games.