Notch steps down as Minecraft lead developer
Minecraft creator Markus 'Notch' Persson has stepped down as lead developer, replaced by Mojang cohort Jens Bergensten. "He will have the final say in all design decisions, so he will kinda sorta become my boss, I guess," Persson joked.
Minecraft creator Markus 'Notch' Persson has stepped down as lead developer on the indie dig 'em up yesterday, replaced by Mojang cohort Jens Bergensten. "He will have the final say in all design decisions, so he will kinda sorta become my boss, I guess," Mojang founder Persson joked. "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," Persson said of Bergensten. "And when we don't agree, we discuss it and something much better comes out at a result. He's truly a great person to work with, and I feel very confident handing over the leadership of Minecraft to him."
Though Minecraft officially launched, at long last, at MineCon in November, work still continues on improving and expanding it. Then there's the Xbox 360 edition to finish, too.
"Personally, I will now rest for a while, then get back to work refreshed and eager," Persson said. "I'll be helping out with Minecraft, of course, but also starting work on some new project."
Mojang Specifications has its finger in many pies. As well as developing Scrolls and publishing Oxeye's Cobalt, secret things are afoot. Persson has known to be working on a mysterious new project for some time now, mentioning in September that he was prototyping.
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Minecraft creator Markus 'Notch' Persson has stepped down as lead developer, replaced by Mojang cohort Jens Bergensten. "He will have the final say in all design decisions, so he will kinda sorta become my boss, I guess," Persson joked.-
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LOL
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Jens is the shit.
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HEhehaha ... thanks for that lol.
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Thank you for the past couple years of Minecraft, Notch. I'm sure Jens will do a good job.
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super belated announcement
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Does anyone else feel like Notch takes a ton of vacations ?
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If I had made all the money I am sure he has in the last few years, I'd be taking a ton of vacations too.
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oldie but a goodie http://i56.tinypic.com/5e8iuo.png
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oh crap, updated version through June 2011 :)
http://i56.tinypic.com/sz7psz.png
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Billionaires are the same only their workaholics too so work is vacation for them.
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dammit, their they're
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yeah but steve jobs was mentally ill
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What's the point of starting a business, kabex? Please enlighten me.
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To get hot chicks to sleep with you and buy lots of toys. Oh also to avoid taxes.
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You have to spend your allowance on something don't you?
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Didn't Kabex admit at one point that "I've also had several failed businesses."?
Oh yeah, he did:
http://www.shacknews.com/chatty?id=27135525-
Words of advice from kabex:
The point of starting a business is to have it fail so that you can continue to collect weekly allowances from your dad and avoid any significant personal responsibility, accountability and maturity, while retaining the authority to hand down life lessons to the denizens of internet gaming forums.-
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Says the one who wants to retire by age 35
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That's where my boss is at right now, He's been out of office about 25% of the work days this year. Not to mention leaving early, coming in late, and doing stuff like getting a haircut in the middle of the day.
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I think Notch reveals a simple fact about the internet. Any information you give state about yourself, someone's going to complain about it.
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I'm completely cool with that Jens is a machine.
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Jens is the best
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this post needs more love
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this post needs more love
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I would hope that most of us are aware that the english pronunciation of J is somewhat unique
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french >:-(
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Je t'acuse!
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what of it? Their J doesn't sound like English J (postalveolar fricative vs affricate)
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quickest minimal pair I can think of is leisure vs ledger. (the s being pronounced like a French J, the dg being pronounced by our J) They differ in pronunciation by one phone, meaning each is (in English at least) a distinct phoneme. IE they are not the same sound and are not perceived as such. Depending on accent, measure vs major could serve as well (the initial vowel is a stretch, but it provides a second word without that distracting d)
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what of it? French J doesn't sound like English J (postalveolar fricative vs affricate).
I did use a weasel word (somewhat) in my first post to leave open the possibility that there is another language with a J that sounds like ours, but I can't think of any and French isn't it-
fffuuuuuu longest delay between hitting post and it showing up I've seen on the shack. I waited three minutes before posting again :(
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y'all said somewhat and contrasted it to a Y sound!!!
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How do you pronounce the name he gave himself on twitter?
http://twitter.com/#!/jeb_
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Okay. Minecraft... it is truly awesome but it could do with more love. There are awesome things done as mods that should be plain-vanilla: Matmos mod among them, or at least, a proper Mod feature, so you can click or unclick those you want in a certain moment. Like the Creatures mod. That would be a blast. Messing with the .jar and file subclasses is a mess....
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