Jens Bergensten is a Swedish programmer and computer game designer. In 2013, he was among the 100 most influential people on the planet according to Time. He gained worldwide fame as the main ideological inspirer of the popular Minecraft game.
Biography: early years
Jens Bergensten was born on May 18, 1979 in the Swedish town of Örebro, which is 200 km from Stockholm. From childhood, showed interest in the exact sciences. After school, Jens continued his studies at a university in Stockholm, where he mastered the profession of a programmer. Soon he became interested in computer design.
After university, Bergensten spent a long time developing games. He also tried himself in the field of game design. However, his work did not have much success. Bergensten has a personal website where the indie games created by him during this period are posted.
Career
In 2011, Jens joined Mojang, a computer game development company. He quickly joined the team, where he initially worked on the creation of the role-playing strategy of Scrolls. Soon, Jens joined the development team of the legendary Minecraft. Despite the straightforward, the game has attracted millions of fans in many countries. Spoiled by a variety of "shooters" and strategies, gamers took the "calm" Minecraft with enthusiasm.
Jens worked on the game in tandem with Marcus Persson. He came up with a number of innovations, including underground fortresses, pistons, villages, a number of new mobs. Soon Persson refused to oversee the Minecraft project. Since then, the main developer is Bergensten. He is also responsible for the so-called pocket version of Minecraft. In the game, he is listed under the nickname Jeb_.
In recent years, Jens has been working on improving Minecraft, which has become his main brainchild. He not only throws up plot ideas, but also draws pixel art for the project. It is noteworthy that Jens only changes the user interface of the game, and he does not expose the construction part of the game to cardinal metamorphoses. For this, millions of Minecraft fans are grateful to him.
In an interview, Bergensten admitted that he draws inspiration everywhere. So, a black-and-white cat in the game was copied by him from his own pet named Newton. Minecraft is over ten years old, but it is still relevant. And in many ways this is the merit of Bergensten.
Jens contributed to a number of games, including:
- strategy strategist;
- Arcade Harvest: Massive Encounter;
- Fillauth ("remake" of Fallout);
- corporate walker Because It's fun, Fay.
