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Minecraft's Riches: How One Guy Is Building A Gaming Empire, Block By Block

Ever since its overnight success, players of the "millions-selling":http://motherboard.tv/2010/9/23/indie-world-building-game-minecraft-now-raking-in-250k-per-day sandbox game _Minecraft_ have built all kinds of things: Rollercoasters, functioning...
Janus Rose
New York, US

Ever since its overnight success, players of the millions-selling sandbox game Minecraft have built all kinds of things: Rollercoasters, functioning computers and full-scale model spaceships, to name a few. But Minecraft ’s creator, Markus “Notch” Persson, is taking on a task far grander in scale: Building a game company from scratch.

In just a few short weeks, Notch went from a regular 9-5 joe programming in his spare time to a full-time indie superstar, selling over 250,000 copies of his inventive (and still technically unfinished) world-building game per day. Indie filmmakers 2 Player Productions ventured to Sweden over New Years to capture Notch’s sudden rise to videogame godhood, and the explosive birth of his game company, Mojang, in their upcoming Minecraft documentary.

The 20-minute short, engineered by the same team that brought us chiptune doc Reformat the Planet, is well on its way to becoming a full-length documentary thanks to the ongoing pledge drive on Kickstarter. Check below for Part 2.

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