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He is the creator of Minecraft , which is the best-selling video game in history. He founded the video game development company Mojang Studios in Persson began developing video games at an early age. His commercial success began after he published an early version of Minecraft in Prior to the game's official retail release in , it had sold over ten million copies.

After this point Persson stood down as the lead designer and transferred his creative authority to Jens Bergensten. In September Persson announced on his personal website that he had concluded he "[didn't have the connection to his fans he thought he had]", that he had "become a symbol", and that he did not wish to be responsible for Mojang's increasingly large operation.

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The acquisition made Persson a billionaire. Since several of Persson's posts on Twitter regarding homosexuality , race , and transgender rights issues have caused public controversies. In , his posts were censured by Microsoft, who subsequently removed mentions of his name from Minecraft excluding one instance in the game's end credits and did not invite him to the game's tenth anniversary celebration.

In , he co-founded a separate game studio called Rubberbrain, which was relaunched in as Bitshift Entertainment. When Persson was about seven years old, [ 8 ] his parents divorced, and he and his sister lived with their mother. According to Persson, his father suffered from depression , bipolar disorder , alcoholism , and medication abuse, and went to jail for robberies.

His sister also experimented with drugs and ran away from home. He had gained interest in video games at an early age. His father was "a really big nerd", who built his own modem and taught Persson to use the family's Commodore By , Persson knew he wanted to become a video game developer, but his teachers advised him to study graphic design, which he did from ages 15 to