{"id":28839,"date":"2011-12-03T08:00:17","date_gmt":"2011-12-03T06:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=28839"},"modified":"2011-12-05T10:21:11","modified_gmt":"2011-12-05T08:21:11","slug":"notch-steps-down-as-lead-developer-on-minecraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/28839-notch-steps-down-as-lead-developer-on-minecraft","title":{"rendered":"Notch steps down as lead developer on Minecraft"},"content":{"rendered":"

With Minecraft<\/a> finally being released last month after two years of development, creator Markus \u201cNotch\u201d Persson has announced that he will no longer be acting as lead developer.<\/p>\n

The reins have been handed over to partner Jens Bergensten, or Jeb, who was originally hired at Mojang\u2019s back-end developer to work on Scrolls, but gradually became increasingly involved in Minecraft\u2019s development.<\/p>\n

Speaking to Gamasutra, Persson says while it\u2019s a scary move for him, \u201cwe’ve [Persson and Bergensten] worked close enough for long enough for me to feel confident about it.\u201d<\/p>\n

“He’s exactly what Minecraft needs right now. He’s a bit more mod friendly than I am, and we need to embrace mods more.”<\/p>\n

While Bergensten was the perfect fit, Persson admits that stepping down as lead developer wasn\u2019t easy. “Yes, it was [tough]… not to hand it to him – he’s the perfect match – but just reaching the decision. It’s my baby, after all!”<\/p>\n

The move was by no means a hasty decision, according to Bergensten Persson had been mulling it over for quite some time.<\/p>\n

“I’m not sure when the idea came up the first time (from Notch), but it has been a few months now,” he explains. “We all knew that Notch was going to work on other things after release, so it kind of seemed natural for me to ‘take over'”.<\/p>\n

So what\u2019s next for Minecraft? Bergensten says his number one priority is the much-sought-after mod API.<\/p>\n

“The game needs an API, so end users can obtain the mods without hassle…. I’m not going to do it all by myself though. We have a new programmer beginning in January, and we are talking to existing mod API teams, such as Bukkit, Minecraft Forge, and Minecraft Coder Pack.”<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t get too excited however, as Bergensten says the API will be coming \u201cno sooner than March\u201d.<\/p>\n

As for Persson, he has a few things in development, but he\u2019s most eager to start a new project entirely.<\/p>\n

“We have some stuff in the pipeline that I might work on. But what I really want to do is to do something new.”<\/p>\n

Source: Gamasutra<\/a><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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