Minecraft biography

What is now with Marcus Person to curtail what Marcus Person is famous for, how did he get his network nickname, how he earned his billion and will be able to earn another one? Today we will tell you about the creator of the legendary game Minecraft 61 What do you think, who plays computer games? For representatives of the older generation in Russia, the answer immediately flies from the tongue, made as a multiplication table: “The stolen teenagers, whom computer games have brought to clip thinking”, old people like to talk about it.

Meanwhile, the average age of gamers is 36 years, but the number of playing pensioners is growing every year. It’s easy to get this statistics - players constantly visit game sites, watch reviews, exchange information. If only because it soon remains the most successful in sales for 15 years: by a year, more than millions of copies were sold on all platforms, and the number of players, at least once a month of it - a million.

A lot of reviews and videos are recorded about it, which thousands on YouTube make a lot of additions to the game created by both professionals and amateur programmers, the whole world plays at home. You say that you are a solid person, in age and such nonsense you will not begin to do for anything? Do not boast. And today we will talk about who the notorious Minecraft came up with how he reached such a life and what he was doing now.

Biography of Marcus Persson So, meet: Marcus Alexei Persson, son of the Finnish mother and Swedish dad, bearing the Russian second name. His network nickname is a nickname or pseudonym - NOTCH, that is, “notch” or “mark”, or division on a scale. In slang, this word means a man of a tall, cool guy, to whom not everyone will manage to reach. Dad worked on the railway, mom - a nurse, while they had their own house and land in the town or in a large village of Edsbun, where four thousand inhabitants live, and they still have the most beloved game, not minecraft, but a ball hockey, for which even the covered arena was built, the local club became the champion of Sweden.

Little Marcus has not yet played any hockey, but in games with neighboring children it was always an instigator of some mischief, the neighbors called him a bully. But then the family moved to Stockholm, and there he changed a lot: instead of hooliganism in the fresh air, he began to hold at home all the time, and the game in the designer LEGO became his favorite pastime.

The details from Lego were everywhere - on the table, on the floor, in bed and in the school desk. This went on until the age of seven.

Once dad, Birger Persson, brought home a box with a computer comodore, it was one of the most popular computers in history - 17 million cars were sold. There was color graphics, games - the simplest, if not primitive, and in addition, it was possible to create elementary programs. The computer was put in the bedroom in the parents, and to expel Marcus from there became a problem.

Ready -made games were only the beginning, soon Marcus began to invent them himself. They probably looked like the very first Leisure Suit Larry samples, where it was necessary to enter the text, completing tasks, for example, “turn on the light”, “open the door”, etc. But what he could not, he did not know how to keep his codes! Each time he had to start from scratch, combating already invented options to automatism.

Our stubborn old people are now ready to conjure in the whole throat that the unfortunate boy did not learn to read books, infected with “clip thinking”, fell out of the tenth floor through the “Overton window” or something else like that. Increasingly, Marcus pretended that his stomach, his head hurt, something else-just not to go to school and climb into the computer. Ritwa’s mother was not worried about his performance - he remained one of the best students, but she was worried that he was not in the air and did not engage in any physical education.

Once she even forcibly recorded him in a football section. Having decided to look at his successes, she came to training, and saw that he was not running, but only walks, sweat and does not get his foot on the ball. Immediately, the coach gently hinted to her that something would hardly come out of her venture. Early concerns when Marcus turned 12, and his sister Anna 11, dad remembered the dashing years of his informal youth, and this led to a divorce and move from his own home to the apartment.

A year later, the sister began adolescence with all the delights: black “kosukha”, Iroquois, punk rock, piercing, selected swearing and toxicomania. Marcus, on the contrary, was a full and thorough botan, did not seek gas for lighters, and desperate wars broke out between his brother and sister, up to knocking out apartment doors. Mom was afraid to go crazy. Pope Birger recalled young years in terms of drug passion.

He bought a house in the village, and Anna soon moved there, where they began to use together. Once, either for theft, or for something else, he got into prison.When he left his term and called Marcus, he answered him: “Do you want me to regret you? Before moving to high school, it was necessary to go through an interview with a psychologist, where Marcus to the question of who he wanted to become immediately answered: “A programmer, and I want to create computer games.” The psychologist either considered that this was not a profession, or decided that the boy was mocking, in general - Marcus was sent to study with an in -depth study of the typographic business.

But there he immediately signed up for a computer optional elective, and began to engage in not a task, but his version of the PONG toy. The teacher looked into the monitor - and said: "Come to the exam at the end of the year, do not lose time here." At first, Marcus against corporate rules had any clear plans for Marcus. He could not find a job for a long time, and in the house after his sister finally moved to her father, it became quiet and comfortable.

After some time, he told Rita: “Mom, I will always live with you.” Meanwhile, as an amateur programmer, he progressed very quickly, and in the end he was hired by Gamefederation, but this company did not develop the game. Four by a year, he got a job at Midasplayer, where each “outfit” created his own game. Having gotten into the work, at first he was very pleased: they paid well, he became one of the leaders.

However, he soon ceased to satisfy the company's management approach to work. Everything new Midasplayer was not interested in, it was necessary to supplement and rewrite endless bubbles, balls and solitaires. Before starting work at Midasplayer, Marcus still left his mother. He bought his own apartment, the most modest housing. Once his mother decided to visit him and was horrified.

The bed never covered up, the clothes were lying on the floor between empty cola bottles and fast food boxes. And everywhere disks, CDs and boxes from games. Everything except the computer is overgrown with dust, like wool. Mom, sighing heavily, took up a rag and a vacuum cleaner. The sister, meanwhile, fell lower and lower, and Marcus was the only one who helped her at least something.

But she asked for help only with money for drugs, and once he gave her a check of five hundred crowns and said: "You will not get anything else." And at work, he once showed his own development to the authorities, an original game. He was called "to the carpet." The director told him that it is impossible to engage in games in his free time, that everything that he did is still belongs to Midasplayer, that he is warned of the inadmissibility of this and that his behavior needs to be reviewed.

He quit, then returned, but in the year he was told about the vacancy in Jalbum. They didn’t engage in games at all, but he just wanted to escape from work, which by that time had become hated. Then he was immediately told that what he was doing there during the time, the employer is not at all interested in. We note another change in his life: he began to meet with a girl from a new company, programmer Elin Zetterstrand.

Then, on August 13, he will marry her. However - for a short while. Marcus Persson: Minecraft now in the evenings, nights and weekends, Marcus began to create his own game, which in some way reminded the same LEGO designer from childhood. Perhaps we will not begin to describe the game itself, since dozens of beautiful and professional gaming reviews are dedicated to it. But how she became the main game X, it is worth telling.

But we will put the emphasis on the personality of its creator and on his strategy - or on its absence. Actually, Marcus did not hide where his legs grow from. In mid -May, Marcus loaded a video on YouTube, showing a very early version of Minecraft, and in the description said: “This is the early test of the Infiniminer clone, which I am working on. In the game, if I still finish it, there will be more resource and materials management.

” However, he was in no hurry to reveal his name to the general public, remaining on the network under the nickname Notch. Soon, the own name of the Minecraft game appeared, which means “mountain fishing” in Russian, although there is more often a translation with emphasis to semantics: “minerial skill”. This name echoed with popular Warcraft and Starcraft. During the development, Marcus introduced two serious innovations: he kept an open diary for everyone to create a game and discussed their wishes with the players, asked to write detailed comments.

The game turned out to be creative, but they created - well, who seemed to be more needed. He told his wife: “If in a day I can sell the game more than twenty times, the total amount will be equal to a good salary, then I will quit my main job.” Those who wanted to purchase it had to climb the Minecraft. And soon they bought 23 copies of the game in a day, it was taken about once every three seconds!

Then from PayPal came the notification that the Marcus account was blocked, and he himself, Markus, is probably involved in criminal activity. Marcus grumbled, which would fly only with a business class. There were no objections.It was placed in the city of Belva, where the company headquarters was located, in a fashionable hotel on the top floor of the skyscraper, from where a magnificent look opened.

He was offered work, promised to take into account all his requirements, eccentricities and whims. He replied - “no”, deciding to engage in the development of games on their own. Why and when Marcus Persson sold Minecraft when they talk about the phenomenon of minecraft, the term “viral marketing” often sounds, this game is compared with social networks, and examples of what it is similar to them.

Indeed, everyone from the first steps of the game of the year wanted to share their achievements with other gamers, and this was how the community of players who conduct their experience from the publication of the alpha version was formed from May 17. Was this the result of a thin, thought -out strategy, painted to the smallest detail of the plan, thin chess calculation?

Yes, you already know very well - nothing like that. The information society lives according to completely new laws, many are still incomprehensible, and in many ways to no one understands. It will be possible to talk about the success of “viral marketing” when it can be repeated by planning and calculating it. And no one has succeeded so far. Not just success came - the game became the most significant in the decade, it determined the development trends of the gaming industry, and made everyone happy!