Markus Persson
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Markus Alexej Persson, also known by the pseudonym Notch, is a Swedish video game programmer and designer. He is the creator of Minecraft, the best-selling video game in history. He founded the video
Persson at the 2016 Game Developers Conference
Persson at the Game Developers Conference 2011
End Poem
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The end credits of the video game Minecraft include a written work by the Irish writer Julian Gough that is conventionally called the End Poem. It is the only narrative text in the mostly unstructured
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…celebration of the game. A spokesperson for Microsoft stated that his views "do not reflect those of Microsoft or Mojang". He is still mentioned in the End Poem ("a flat, infinite world created by a man called Markus"). Markus Persson at IMDb…
Writer Julian Gough experienced a mental phenomenon affecting his hand during the writing process, which he felt was "dictation from the universe".
A tattoo quoting from the poem, set in a font similar to Minecraft's. Gough used an image of the same tattoo when discussing the poem's impact.