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It’s not Notch’s game. He doesn’t work on it, he just liked the idea and brought his friend on board to his newly founded company. He provides the capital, he i
by mkaltenecker 14y ago
It’s not Notch’s game. He doesn’t work on it, he just liked the idea and brought his friend on board to his newly founded company. He provides the capital, he is basically the publisher in some sense (though he is not CEO of the company he founded), but he publishes a friend’s game.
- radu_floricica 14y agoDidn't he write any code for it?
- 89a 14y agoNope. He worked on Minecraft (when he wasn't on holiday) and his new game 0x10c
- citricsquid 14y agoSort of. Notch and Jahkob have been friends for a long long time and Jahkob has had this game idea for a long time. Notch, Jahkob and Carl (Manneh, serving as CEO) founded Mojang with Jahkob being part of the company to initially develop Scrolls. You're correct that Notch has no involvement with Scrolls (code wise) however his friend (Jahkob) is a co-founder of Mojang, Mojang aren't just "publishing" it, it is their game which has about 30% of the company involved with it.
- mkaltenecker 14y agoThat’s the legal structure, sure, but put simply, Notch invested some of the money he made with Minecraft into Scrolls. He did that by founding a company together with his friend who had the idea for Scrolls (and that company is also supposed to support Minecraft as well as develop and publish other games in the future).