Mojang Studios

Mojang Studios (formerly Mojang Specifications and later Mojang AB) is a Swedish video game developer based in Stockholm. The company was founded as Mojang Specifications in 2009 by Markus Persson, and transformed into Mojang AB in 2010 with Jakob Porsér. Mojang is best known for developing Minecraft. Since November 2014, Mojang became the subsidiary of Xbox Game Studios.

Mini-games
Mojang started this career with Humble Bundle in 2012, they launch Mojam, a game jam event to raise money for charity, as part of which Mojang developed the shoot 'em up mini-game Catacomb Snatch. 81,575 bundles including the game were sold, raising $458,248.99. The following year, Mojang developed three mini-games for Mojam 2. The studio also participated in Humble Bundle's Games Against Ebola game jam in 2014 with three further mini-games.

Unreleased games
In 2011, Markus Persson and Kaplan envisioned a hybrid of Minecraft and Lego and agreed with the Lego Group to develop the game as Brickcraft, codenamed Rex Kwon Do (in reference to the film Napoleon Dynamite). However, Mojang cancelled the project after six months. The Lego Group also considered acquiring Mojang at this point but later decided against doing so as they had not foreseen that Minecraft would become as popular as it would at one point be.

In March 2012, Persson revealed that he would be designing a sandbox space trading and combat simulator like of Elite called 0x10c, Before of this Mojang was made an April Fools page of a game called "Mars Effect" referencing to the Bethesda demand to Caller's Bane) but after of this Mojang confirmed the development state of the game in 2012. 0x10c it was to be settled in the year 281,474,976,712,644 AD in a parallel universe.The project was shelved by August 2013.

Why They Rock

 * 1) They created Minecraft, one of the most influential games in history. Speaking of which, it was ported to many platforms to be easily available.
 * 2) It was founded by the programmer Markus "Notch" Persson, and even he isn't working in the company anymore his former partners as Jens "Jeb_" Bergensten still working to do a great job with Minecraft.
 * 3) They also made merchandise of Minecraft, like action figures, items from the game, even Lego sets.
 * 4) They created a few other games, and they rock too.
 * 5) *They originally made games for Humble Bundle to raise money to charity.
 * 6) Quality over quantity: Despite the fact that Minecraft has some rare updates, they are mostly fun and interesting in nature.
 * 7) At the day of today they still supporting Minecraft with big updates adding new objects, mobs, mechanics, etc. as well of fixing bugs.
 * 8) They allow players to test developed versions of future versions before releasing them.
 * 9) They teamed up with Warner Bros. to make a Minecraft film, which was unfortunately delayed due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
 * 10) They will not allow NFT's based on Minecraft.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) In 2014, Persson, the founder, sold the company (along with Minecraft IP) to Microsoft, along with the later controversial Minecraft 1.9 update (known as Combat Update) later in early 2016 and it got downhill at some moment. However, it started to improve again starting from 2019. Unfortunately, they started to go somewhat downhill again in 2022 following the update of 1.19.1 (particularly Java Edition) with it's moderation update.
 * 2) They have a bad trend of putting new features behind votes. The most infamous example is the 2020 mob vote.