Minecraft
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Minecraft is a video game created by indie game programmer Markus Persson (also known as “Notch”). The game has been in development since May 10, 2009(1), and was officially released November 18, 2011(2). The game is an open world building game in which players forage for three dimensional blocks of resources to create items and structures. Minecraft was developed by Mojang (3), a video game developing company also created by Markus Persson.
Origins
Markus Persson, who goes by the name Notch, first got the inspiration to create Minecraft after playing a game called Infiniminer, a similar block-based building game in which players compete to earn points by digging for precious metals and returning them to the surface before the other players.(4) He found this game to be limiting in creativity and variation of blocks. Notch also stated that he was influenced by the game Dwarf Fortress. Minecraft was intended to be similar to Infiniminer, with gameplay like Dwarf Fortress. Notch began working on the game on May 10, 2009. His first introduction of the game was on May 17, 2009, when he posted it to an internet gaming forum(5). By 2010, Minecraft became PC Gamer UK’s Game of the Year(6), Indie of the Year Player’s Choice Award(7), and garnered thousands of fans. On November 18th, 2011, the official version of Minecraft was released by the company Mojang, at the convention Minecon.
