Mojang AB

Type	Aktiebolag Private limited company
Industry	Video games
Founded	2009 (as Mojang Specifications)
Founder(s)	Carl O. Manneh Markus A. Persson H. Jakob Porsér
Headquarters	Stockholm, Sweden[1]
Key people	Markus A. Persson Chairman of the Board Carl O. Manneh Managing Director
Products	Cobalt Minecraft Scrolls 0x10c
Revenue	551.056 million SEK - 2011
Operating income	64.712 million SEK - 2011
Profit	47.982 million SEK - 2011
Total assets	211.053 million SEK - 2011
Total equity	73.232 million SEK - 2011
Owner(s)	Notch Enterprises AB - 42%[2]
Employees	27 - May 2012[3]
Parent	Notch Enterprises AB
Website	Mojang.com
References: 2011 Year End Report[4]

Mojang AB (mojäng: Swedish for gadget), pronounced /mʊˈjɛŋ/, is a Swedish independent video game developer founded in May 2009 under the name Mojang Specifications by Markus Persson,^[5] and most known for creating the popular indie game Minecraft. Its head office is in Stockholm.^[6]

History[link]

Following a paid trip and employment offer from Valve Corporation in early September 2010, Markus Persson, Jakob Porsér^{[not in citation given]} and Carl Manneh^{[not in citation given]} founded Mojang, as Persson desired to run a self-made independent studio for the continued development of Minecraft.^[7] Within a year, the company grew to a size of twelve employees, with their second video game, Scrolls, in development, as well as serving as the publisher of Cobalt.^[8] In 2011, Napster founder and former Facebook president Sean Parker offered to invest in Mojang, but was declined.^[9] By March 2012, the company had accumulated a net income of over $80 million.^[10]

ZeniMax Media, the parent company of Bethesda Softworks filed a lawsuit against Mojang on September 27, 2011, claiming that Mojang's planned title, Scrolls, infringed upon Bethesda's trademark of The Elder Scrolls series^[11] On October 18, Markus Persson announced that Mojang had won the interim injunction, but that Bethesda still had the option to file an appeal.^[12] In March 2012, Mojang and Bethesda reached a settlement, in which Mojang would not trademark Scrolls, but Bethesda would not contest Mojang's naming of Scrolls, so long as it would not be a direct competitor against The Elder Scrolls.^[13]

In late March 2012, Persson revealed that he would be designing a space-based game. Although Mojang teased with an April Fool's website based around "Mars Effect", (citing the Bethesda lawsuit), it was confirmed that the game was indeed in development, albeit with a different name.^[14] On April 4, Mojang revealed the game's title to be 0x10c, set in the year 281,474,976,712,644 AD of a parallel universe.^[15]

Games[link]

Stance on Internet freedom[link]

Persson tweeted, on January 13, 2012, that Mojang would "silently take down minecraft.net and mojang.com" as part of the January 18 protests against SOPA and PIPA. Persson said of the Stop Online Piracy Act and similar anti-pirating laws, "No sane person can be for SOPA. I don’t know if we’re sane, but we are strongly, uncompromisingly against SOPA, and any similar laws.".^[19][20]

Awards[link]

• March Developers' Showdown 2011^[21]

References[link]

External links[link]

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