One year ago, we started Mojang. Back then, Minecraft had sold between half a million and one million copies, and now we're up to almost four million copies sold, we're expanding to two new platforms, and we're getting good progress done with our new game. In one month, we're going to Las Vegas to celebrate the full release of Minecraft with our fans. And we're getting sued by one of my favourite game developers.
I started working on Minecraft in the summer of 2009, starting with a top-down isometric mining game. The elevator pitch for the game was “Dwarf Fortress meets Rollercoaster Tycoon meets Dungeon Keeper”. It was an interesting game for sure that I'd still like to see someone make, but then I played a game called Infiniminer and realized the first person perspective with blocky graphics worked really well and started prototyping it. The game went from being about controlling a team of characters to being a single player first person experience, with a focus on resource gathering and a somewhat coherent fantasy setting that would provide hopefully constant challenges and things to do.
After a little more than half a year of working on the game, people started talking about it and paying attention to it, so I was able to quit my day job and focus on it full time. I got flown out to Seattle to talk to Valve (and Bungie, as a bonus! :D). Valve’s one of the places I'd absolutely love to work at, the people are really nice and creative, and their new offices are amazingly nerd friendly. But I decided to instead focus on doing my own thing, called Jakob, and told him to quit his job.
Daniel joined, then Carl, then me and Jakob took a short field trip to Uppsala to meet with Junkboy, then Daniel suggested Jens, and all of the sudden we're 12 people in the office, with three more signed up. We’re looking for a bigger office now. Fun!
We're officially one year old now, and things are more fun than ever. :D Thank you, everyone working at Mojang. You may miss morning meetings sometimes, and some of you have horrible taste in music, but I love you all! And, of course, none of this would've been possible without the players and the fans, so thank you, person reading this!
Also, we've won a big pile of awards. ;-D
That's sounds like an happy birthday.
You're getting sued? Who in their right mind...... fff
bethesda is suing them because apparently "scrolls" is a copyright infringement on the elder scrolls.
We should sue them, Skyrim has the letter 'm' in it's title and so does Minecraft.
Here is a fun little fact, bethesda cant sue you over the name scrolls.
Titles are not protected under copyright.
ummm yes they can sue mojang... "the elder scrolls" is their title. You can't go and make a "brand new" soda and call it Pepsi. Although I think bethesda's lawyers are being dumb, they do have a legitimate case: "The moron in a hurry" essentially
apparently, the "moron in a hurry" thing won't stand. mojang said so.
It's Trademark Infringement :\
Happy Birthday!!!!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
HERE'S YOUR PRESENT: :D
LOVE YOU'RE GAME!!
*sniff* it grows up so fast
Weres the cakes! I am so disappointed!!! ;)
I remember not too long ago when I was playing Minecraft classic and thought it was cool. Look at where we are now.
Read "...meets Rollercoaster Tycoon..." and I was like, Mojang should totally buy the rights from Atari and make RCT4.
YES.
SO MUCH YES.
RCT was the best ever :D
well, the first and second were.
Happy Bday Mojang
Happy creation-day!
HAPPY CREEPER- oh uhh I mean... uh... HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOJANG :D
you spoke to two of the best developers in history? you lucky guy! :D
happy b'day, Mojang! :D
Yay happy B-Day! I have played it for over a year and I loved every minute off it!!