# Minecraft

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- Book: [Minecraft](https://www.bookquiver.com/daniel-goldberg/minecraft) ([Minecraft.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/daniel-goldberg/minecraft.md))
- Authors: [Daniel Goldberg](https://www.bookquiver.com/daniel-goldberg), [Linus Larsson](https://www.bookquiver.com/linus-larsson)
- Publisher: Virgin Digital
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-07-5355-074-8
- Published: 2014-01-23
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

Just a few years ago, 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.