I’ll preface this by saying I have tons of respect and admiration for what Notch did, however I think it fair to say that Minecraft came about from Notch making

I’ll preface this by saying I have tons of respect and admiration for what Notch did, however I think it fair to say that Minecraft came about from Notch making a game engine not a game. The game was already made and was called infiniminer. He was definately an engines guy and successes mostly because Minecraft let he users build the game experiance themselves.