December 2011
7 posts
Top ten movies of 2011!
No, just kidding. Instead, I will ramble about working in teams.
Some people have asked me why we don’t hire a lot more programmers to work on Minecraft. The answer is that I think that would be an incredibly bad thing to do.. or at least that it WOULD have been an incredibly bad thing to do. One reason why Minecraft has managed to get as much personality as it does it that it’s only...
Mojang Has Never Supported SOPA
Looks to Internet Community & Fellow Tech Leaders to Destroy Legislation We All Hate
STOCKHOLM, Sweden. (Dec. 23, 2011) - Mojang has never supported SOPA, the “Stop Online Piracy Act” currently working its way through U.S. Congress.
“Overzealous and vaguely formulated attempts to fight online piracy is of the scariest developments in online policies in recent times, which...
Ludum Dare is a wonderful thing
I’ve talked about it before, and I’ll talk about it again. Ludum Dare is an amazing thing. It’s basically a recurring (three times per year? Uh. Something like that) competition where you’re supposed to make a game from scratch in 48 hours, and it just happened again this weekend. Everyone starts at the same time when the theme gets announced, and then you try to make an as...
Santa vs Cthulhu until 7 am
I’ve been avoiding doing any kind of work recently in an attempt to reset my creative batteries. I’ve mostly been playing Zelda. Then I played Hyper Princess Pitch and started playing around with the idea of making a Christmas game myself. Naturally, I started with the title. Santa vs Cthulhu.
The original idea was to make a real time strategy game where you play as either Santa or...
We're hiring. You should work here.
We’re expanding!
Exciting new projects, a very successful first year, and a much bigger new office means we’re going to grow into a slightly larger company. Right now we’re about 12-15 people, depending on how you count, and we want to grow to “a bit larger”.
To apply for a job, go here:...
Would you like some physical LEGO Minecraft?
Some clever people came up with some concepts for LEGO Minecraft kits. We thought it was pretty darn cool and talked to LEGO about it, and now it’s up for on their community site where people can vote for it and show LEGO if they want it or not.
If you do want it to happen, simply go here and click the green “support” button: http://lego.cuusoo.com/ideas/view/4038
Och med dom orden så passar jag micken.
As of yesterday, Jens Bergensten is the new lead developer on Minecraft. He will have the final say in all design decisions, so he will kinda sorta become my boss, I guess. I’ve promised him to not pull rank. ;)
We’ve been working together on Minecraft for a year now, and I’m amazed at how much in synch we two are when it comes to how to design the game. And when we don’t...