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In 2011, Markus Persson was a bored IT-developer in Stockholm. In the evenings, he toiled away on a labour of love: a game with a tiny but dedicated online following. It was called Minecraft and Markus released it to the world in early 2009. The game itself looks deceptively simple. It resembles a digital version of Lego - bricks stacked on top of each other, giving players a world where they build whatever structures their mind can conjure. A breath of fresh air compared to the industry giants' shooter games. In the space of a few years, Minecraft has become one of the most astonishing success stories of the internet age, attracting millions of players and proving how a single great idea can topple empires in the digital, post-industrial world. This is the story of the man behind the game. Here Markus opens up for the first time about his life. About his old Lego-filled desk at school, the first computer his father brought home one day and also about growing up in a family marked by drug abuse and conflict. But above all it is the story of the fine line between seeming misfit and creative madman, and the birth of a tech visionary.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Society & culture: general Cultural studies

• Full title: Minecraft
• Subtitle: The Unlikely Tale of Markus 'Notch' Persson and the Game That Changed Everything
• Author: Daniel Goldberg, Linus Larsson
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272
• EAN: 9780753555767
• ISBN: 075355576X
• ID: 04909658
• Publisher: Ebury Publishing
• Weight: 190 g
• Dimensions: 201 × 126 × 17 mm
• Date of publishing: 22. January 2015

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