Mojang Studios facts for kids

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Mojang Studios

Logo since May 2020
Headquarters on Söder Mälarstrand 43, Stockholm, in 2018
Formerly	Mojang Specifications (2009–2010) Mojang AB (2010–2020)
Type	Subsidiary
Industry	Video games
Founded	2009; 14 years ago (2009)
Founder	Markus Persson
Headquarters	Stockholm , Sweden
Key people	Jonas Mårtensson (CEO) Vu Bui (COO)
Products	Minecraft Caller's Bane Cobalt Crown and Council
Number of employees	70 (2016)
Parent	Xbox Game Studios (2014–present)

Mojang Studios is a Swedish video game developer based in Stockholm. It was founded by the independent video game designer Markus Persson in 2009 as Mojang Specifications for the development and release of Persson's sandbox and survival video game Minecraft. The studio inherited its name from a previous video game venture Perrson had left two years prior. Following the game's release, Persson, in conjunction with Jakob Porsér, incorporated the business as Mojang AB in late 2010 and hired Carl Manneh as the company's chief executive officer. Other early hires included Daniel Kaplan and Jens Bergensten.

Minecraft became highly successful, eventually the best-selling game of all time, giving Mojang sustained growth. With a desire to move on with the game, Persson offered to sell his share in Mojang, and the company was acquired by Microsoft through Xbox Game Studios (then known as Microsoft Studios) in November 2014. Persson, Porsér and Manneh subsequently left Mojang, with Jonas Mårtensson replacing Manneh. In May 2020, Mojang was rebranded as Mojang Studios.

As of 2016, the company employs 70 people in its Stockholm offices, including chief executive officer Mårtensson and chief operating officer Vu Bui. Apart from Minecraft, Mojang Studios has developed Caller's Bane, a digital collectable card game, Crown and Council, a turn-based strategy game, and the dungeon crawl game Minecraft Dungeons. It also released various smaller games as part of game jams organised by Humble Bundle and published the externally developed Cobalt and Cobalt WASD.

Games developed

Game jam games

Mojang partnered with Humble Bundle in 2012 to launch Mojam, a game jam event to raise money for charity, as part of which Mojang developed the shoot 'em up mini-game Catacomb Snatch. 81,575 bundles including the game were sold, raising US$458,248.99. The following year, Mojang developed three mini-games for Mojam 2. The studio also participated in Humble Bundle's Games Against Ebola game jam in 2014 with three further mini-games.

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  Markus Persson founded Mojang Studios in 2009.

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  Mojang's offices were formerly located on Maria Skolgata 83, Stockholm.