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halfmanhalfbook's review against another edition
3.0
Markus Persson is the man behind one of the biggest independent games in history, Minecraft.
Better known as Notch to his numerous fans, he has always has a fascination with programming and spend hours of his youth in front of a screen. After school he managed to get a job as a programmer but found that it was too restrictive and with him and another dreamt of having their own company to do the games that they wanted.
The germ of an idea cam from another game, as these things always do, and he started coding for this simple blocky world. All so very different from the slick modern games that are on the market these days. And slowly word got out of his little game where you could create exactly what you wanted. As the sale grew and grew he took the plunge and went into business with two others.
It is fascinating story of his life, and of a gamer who wanted to do it exactly his way. My children spend an awful lot of time on his game, so it was good to find out about the man.
Better known as Notch to his numerous fans, he has always has a fascination with programming and spend hours of his youth in front of a screen. After school he managed to get a job as a programmer but found that it was too restrictive and with him and another dreamt of having their own company to do the games that they wanted.
The germ of an idea cam from another game, as these things always do, and he started coding for this simple blocky world. All so very different from the slick modern games that are on the market these days. And slowly word got out of his little game where you could create exactly what you wanted. As the sale grew and grew he took the plunge and went into business with two others.
It is fascinating story of his life, and of a gamer who wanted to do it exactly his way. My children spend an awful lot of time on his game, so it was good to find out about the man.
trevorbramble's review against another edition
3.0
Thoroughly bittersweet, and felt like a cliffhanger ending a little because a few years passed and things entirely keeping with the book's scope have since happened.
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