Markus Persson was left “slightly overwhelmed” this week having picked up three prizes at the 2011 Develop Industry Excellence Awards.
He, joined in the video by fellow Mojang star Daniel Kaplan, picked up honours for Independent Studio, Micro Studio and New Download IP.
In the video below, Persson cited Richard Gariott, John Carmack and David Braben as three of his heroes.
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CodeDev (fondly known as ‘The Unreal Guys’), the UK-based co-development studio has today officially announced the launch of The Performance Guys. Operating as a highly specialised division, this elite team is debuting as the world’s only dedicated group of bespoke Performance Engineers and Technical Artists explicitly built to tackle project-critical optimisation challenges.
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