“It was a UFO on the time”: how “Minecraft”, which is celebrating its fifteenth anniversary, conquered the world

2024-05-17 07:37:59

Think about a digital sandbox the place creativeness is the one restrict in constructing a pixelated, 3D world. Put on-line for the primary time on Might 17, 2009, the online game “Minecraft” celebrates its fifteenth anniversary this Friday, Might 17 and its title of world champion of probably the most offered video games in historical past, with 300 million copies. Initially designed as an unbiased recreation for actual “geeks”, it shortly grew to become a world online game reference for a number of generations and a strong business model. Sufficient arguments to persuade the American big Microsoft to pay $2.5 billion in 2014 to amass Mojang Studios, its Swedish writer. It was there, in Stockholm, that we met the actual heroes of this saga.

To higher perceive why voxels — digital blocks of 16 x 16 pixels representing supplies — are so passionate a couple of group of greater than 130 million energetic gamers, we’ve to return to the top of the 2000s. Sport developer by day at King, the Stockholm studio behind Sweet Crush, Markus “Notch” Persson designs his personal video video games at night time.