Mojang

Mojang is the video game developer that created the massively successful game Minecraft. One of the founders of Mojang created the company after he turned down an offer from Valve, one of the big game development and distribution companies. Based in Stockholm, Sweden, it became one of the largest independent game developing companies after the success of Minecraft. Minecraft has gone from a sandbox building game, sandbox is a mode in games when you are free to do whatever you want, to a game that helps in rebuilding parts of African cities with its “Block by Block” program. Aside from Minecraft, Mojang has other games available such as Scrolls and Cobalt. Because the developing team is not so big it takes a long time to develop new games on top of maintenance to Minecraft. Like the documentary “Indie Games” mentioned many times, independent games are made to be more personal to the creators than a larger company would make. Minecraft is not a high end graphics but it functions the way the creators wanted it to. With the freedom in creating these games, Mojang faces challenges in how to sell as many games it needs to in order to remain in business. But as it has grown it has developed a reputation and essentially tore down that barrier to entry themselves; Selling 33 million copies of Minecraft will do that for you. There is not much more information on their other games. The demographics for Minecraft are very wide, little kids like my brother are obsessed with the game and then theres grown adults who also spend hours on end working on a world in the game. The success of Mojang shows that it does not take a large company to make a game capable of being a profitable product or massive franchise, all you need are developers with a dream and patience to code an entire game.