The AMAZING and UNLIKELY Story of How MINECRAFT was BORN Who created MINECRAFT and how was it made?

Markus Persson, also known as NOTCH, The idea created MINECRAFT. Here's the story of how of MINECRA FT began he did it. Dwarfto take Fortressshape in Markus's was a encounte game r with made Dwarf COMPLETFortress. ELY from symbols. Infiniminer, a game by Zach Barth that inspired MINECRAFT.

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It all started while working at Jalbum The idea of MINECRAFT in Stockholm Sweden, when Markus began to take shape in his discovered a game called DWARF mind after his encounter with Dwarf Fortress. FORTRESS. Infiminer, a game by Zach Barth that inspired MINECRAFT. Besides Dwarf Fortress, there were two other games that fascinated Markus at the time: RollerCoster Tycoon and Dungeon Keeper. RollerCoster Tycoon is an amusement-park simulator, where the player builds roller coasters. Dungeon Keeper is a strategy game, where the player digs cave passages and populates them with monsters and traps. However, it was the game INFIMINER, that made Markus start working on what would become Minecraft. In the early May of 2009, Markus uploaded a video of an early version of MINECRAFT as an INFIMINER clone game he was working on. Fun Fact:

Markus accidently created the On May 17, 2009, Markus uploaded the first playable version of creeper when he was trying to Minecraft onto the indie forum TIGSOURCE. make a pig. In early June, Markus described how Minecraft would be $13 for the INITIAL version,$20 for the beta version, and $26 for the final version. On June 12, 2009, he started selling his game and sold 15 copies in 24 hours. Markus decided that if he could constantly sell 20 games per day, he would be able to quit his day job and focus completely on MINECRAFT. In June 2010 Markus quit Jalbum and the rest is History!�! Now you can see what amazing things Minecraft has evolved into.