Nizzotch

Markus Alexej "Notch" Persson (born: )https://notch.tumblr.com/post/113753678/turning-30-is-scary, known online as Nizzotch or Notch, is a Swedish independent video game developer who is best known as the creator of best-selling video game Minecraft, and one of the founders of the Swedish video game company, Mojang Studios.
==Personal life==
Notch married fellow programmer Elin Zetterstrand on August 2011. Though on mid-2012, he and Elin had filed for divorce, and he has since been single. Persson has also criticized video game piracy. Additionally, he is a member of the Pirate Party of Sweden. On December 2014, after a month he left Mojang, he then bought a Beverly Hills mansion worth $70 million in cash at the time, and it's still heavily unknown if he still resides in the apartment, though in a 2018 Reddit post, he confirmed he went back to his old apartment in Stockholm, Sweden somewhere between late 2017. 
==Biography==
===Early life===
Markus Persson was born on June 1, 1979 on Stockholm, Sweden to a Finnish mother and a Swedish father. He was also raised in the town of Edsbyn during his first years, before moving back to Stockholm. He then started programming at the age of seven, using his father's Commodore 128. He produced his first game (a text-adventure) at the age of eight, with the help of type-in programs. 
===Career===
In 2005 he started working as a game developer for King.com, which he left in 2009 to work as a programmer at Jalbum. He is also one of the founders of Wurm Online. After Minecraft sales grew he moved from full-time to part-time at Jalbum and then eventually left to focus full-time on Minecraft in June 2010; many of the original Mojang employees (including former CEO Carl Manneh) were also ex-Jalbum employees.
After the full release of Minecraft, Persson transferred creative authority of the game's development to Jens Bergensten. 
Persson sold Mojang and all of its assets to Microsoft on September 15, 2014. In a lengthy blog post, Notch states "I love games and I love to program, but I don't make games with the intention of them becoming huge hits, and I don't try to change the world." He then goes on to say that "I've become a symbol. I don't want to be a symbol, responsible for something huge that I don't understand, that I don't want to work on."I'm leaving Mojang - Notch.net; September 15, 2014
Persson left Mojang on November 5, 2014, along with the other founders. He wrote that "as soon as this deal is finalized, I will leave Mojang and go back to doing Ludum Dares and small web experiments. If I ever accidentally make something that seems to gain traction, I'll probably abandon it immediately."
Though even before or after he left Mojang, he had been making other video games besides Minecraft, most notably, his Ludum Dare entry games, or other similar prototypes. During his later years, and more currently, he had been posting a lot of tweets on Twitter, mostly jokes, games, and electronic music. He had been regarded as a "troll" to some people, due to his rants on certain topics, though he likely had been doing this since he created his Twitter account. He also has a Tumblr account, which he also used to post random blog posts and stuffs about Minecraft, as well as his real life events; he last posted was on August 2013. Most of his social medias were also untouched, like Instagram, Facebook, GitHub, Reddit, etc. and he was since focused on posting recent topics on his main Twitter account.
==YouTube Channel==
Notch created his YouTube channel on August 11, 2008. He uploaded his first video on that same day called "Creating Breaking the Tower". it is a time-lapse of him creating Breaking the Tower. The most notable video on the channel is "Cave game tech test" where he shows off the first test run of Minecraft. He described the game as an Infiminer clonehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMpv5kZ9-rE He began to post daily development videos about Minecraft, up until the official game's release in 2011. After he had left Mojang, he had privated all of his videos on his original channel. As of 2021, he had earned an amount of 97k subscribers in his channel.
Though his channel had been inactive, Notch is still uploading content throughout his current main account, which has 28k followers, mostly posting blog posts, and posting Satisfactory and Factorio gameplays. Also, in his original channel, he had been posting daily vlogs for his audience, like uploading his music, or showcasing his awards. All of these videos was then moved to his current account. His YouTube account was primarily linked in his Twitter and Instagram. 
==In other media==
Notch had been referenced in many YouTube videos, mostly regarding Minecraft. He appears in the 20 minute documentary, "Minecraft: The Story of Mojang", by 2Player Productions. He also appeared in Egoraptor's Starbomb music video, "Minecraft is Awesome", in which he portrays himself. 
===Dream's manhunt series===
On January 22, 2020, He made a recent public appearance once again when he collaborated with Dream and GeorgeNotFound in the sixth Manhunt video called "Minecraft Speedrunner VS Assassin ft. Notch", and in the video, he was challenged to beat Minecraft with George protecting him from Dream, the "assassin", who is plotted to stop Notch by killing them to make them lose the challenge. 
After several minutes of George protecting Notch from getting killed by Dream, he then jumped on Notch when GeorgeNotFound was away and killed Notch with his Iron Sword in the Nether, making Dream the winner of this challenge. This was also the first time where Dream got Notch to play the game. This video was privated by Dream on June 3, 2021. 
==Trivia==
*He creates electronic music in his SoundCloud page, labeled as Markus Alexei.
**He had also stated he is a fan of Autechre and Aphex Twin's music.
*He had been programming since the age of 7, and created his first game at the age of 8, which is a text-based adventure game from his father's .
*He is an atheist.
*He is a Mensan.
*He also occasionally do philanthropy works, like donating to the Doctors Without Border organization, and etc.
**He also led a game jam that consists of video games that were made from scratch, under his direction. He had raised $458,248 that was donated to charity.
*His favorite video games, were Doom, The Legend of Grimrock, and Quake
**He also enjoys playing Satisfactory and Factorio.
==Gallery==
Notchskin.png|His Minecraft skin
==References==
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