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Interesting fact: King has existed since 2003, but they're only now going public. Given that their only real success so far is Candy Crush Saga, you have to won
by rmccue 13y ago
Interesting fact: King has existed since 2003, but they're only now going public. Given that their only real success so far is Candy Crush Saga, you have to wonder if this will be the next Zynga.
(Also fun fact, Notch worked for King until Minecraft became big enough to pay for full time development.)
- citricsquid 13y agoYou're correct that Notch worked at King[1] for many years, but he had left King long before Minecraft became big enough to pay for development. He left king in early 2009 and started Minecraft in May 2009 while working for Jalbum[2], in June 2009 he started opening up sales of Minecraft and in August 2009 went part-time at Jalbum so that he could focus some time on Minecraft. He left Jalbum completely on June 1st 2010. A fun fact about Jalbum and Notch (although this is steering way off topic): after Minecraft really started to take off Notch recruited a bunch of people from Jalbum, one of the Mojang co-founders was the Jalbum CEO (Carl Manneh) and a couple of Mojang employees were Jalbum employees. [1] He was an actionscript programmer, he worked on http://www.king.com/games/action-games/luxor/ http://www.king.com/games/action-games/luxor/ http://www.king.com/games/action-games/carnival-shootout/ http://www.king.com/games/action-games/carnival-shootout/ among others [2] http://jalbum.net http://jalbum.net
- brador 13y agoDid King ever make a claim to the Minecraft IP?