The Swedish creative doubts between creating his own studio or launching small video games for himself, for which he asks the opinion of his followers.
The silence kept by Markus Persson has been very long – at least as far as videogame development is concerned -, creator neither more nor less than the Minecraft phenomenon, but it has finally broken it, and it has been on Twitter. With the new year, Persson seems to want to establish some purposes for this newly started 2020, and one of them is to return to the active development of video games. Now, what is not clear is in what way, for which he has asked his followers on the social network.
Notch prepares his return
"Theoretically, would you rather I develop small free games by myself or create a new studio and develop bigger and more polished games?" Persson asked on Twitter, where he has about 3.7 million followers. Interestingly, one of them responds that whatever makes him happier, to which Notch – which is also known – replies that he is still not very clear, and that he hopes to get out of doubt in the not too distant future.
Theoretically, would you prefer me to develop small free games on my own, or start a studio and make polished commercial games?
– Notch (@notch) January 4, 2020
Even the founder of the Swedish Pirate Party, Rick Falkvinge, has been interested in this question of Persson, wondering how theoretical the question is. That said, at the moment the community seems more predisposed to Notch founding a new studio and developing large but at the same time more experimental games, as Minecraft was at the time, rather than major AAA developments.
Persson left Mojang in 2014, after Microsoft's billionaire acquisition of the study, although it has remained active in social networks since then, especially in conflict with other developers. This controversial personality is what has led Microsoft to severely break relations with him, to the point of not even inviting him to the event celebrating the ten years of Minecraft.
