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Minecraft creator attacks accusations regularly directed toward games piracy

In a fascinating statement at GDC’s Indie Games Summit, the Swedish creator of indie PC hit Minecraft has lashed out at some of the ‘myths’ commonly perpetuated about games piracy. Piracy is not theft,” Markus Persson is reported by Edge as saying. If you steal a car, the original is …

Mojang, the super-indie studio behind runaway success story Minecraft, has revealed the next project it is working on as a card game-focused title called Scrolls. Revealed by Gamasutra, the game is a single and multiplayer title focused on collecting and ‘battling’ cards on a game board. Jakob Porser, head developer …

New Mojang game Scrolls to hit private alpha in 2011

Goal to raise $150,000 to produce full video

Having emerged as one of the biggest indie games success of 2010, PC hit Minecraft is getting an official port to Apple’s iOS devices such as the iPhone and iPad. The confirmation comes direct from the game’s creator Markus Persson. Gamasutra reports that the port is being handled by Aron …

Indie smash Minecraft has passed its millionth customer landmark, its creator has revealed. The PC title – released as an ‘Alpha edition’ in June last year – has brought fame and fortune to its creator Markus Persson. "Minecraft just passed one million copies sold," Perrson confirmed via his Twitter account. …

More staff employed as Mojang continues expansion

A compatibility software engineer has managed to port an image taken from Kinect into the PC world-building game Minecraft. Nathan Viniconis explained on his personal blog how developers could utilise depth camera on Kinect and repurpose the data as a full 3D object within Minecraft’s block-built environments. Viniconis’s day job …

Compatibility software engineer details how breakthrough was made