notch article

Notch Article

• Notch was celebrating raising £280,000 for three charities by making a new game in 60 hours.
• The second is selling 5 million copies of Mine craft (A blocky-looking game).
• He is name is Marcus Perrson however he is also referred to as 'Notch' meaning Jesus in the urban dictionary.
• He started Minecraft on his own in 2009.
• Then he formed the Video Game company Mojang.
• He deliberately left features out to entice the audience to interact with one another.
• Every Friday he would introduce updates, which was perfectly timed for people to relax and enjoy playing this emerging game over the weekend.
• Due to Perrsons PayPal account financially exploding they froze his account as they suspected fraud.
• On January 12th 2011 Minecraft surpassed a million units sold.
• By april, it was two million units.
• August it was three million.
• A few days before November it had surpassed four million copies!
• Then Minecon was created for all the fans and lovers to go and express themselves among one another.