Coding with Notch (from Minecraft: The Story of Mojang)

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In 2009, independent video game designer Markus "Notch" Persson released a work in progress that would go on to break every industry rule for achieving success. Part exploratory adventure, part creative building tool, "Minecraft" evolved from a cult classic into an unprecedented hit, raking daily sales in by the thousands. By the end of 2010, Notch was able to quit his day job and live the dream of founding his own development studio, Mojang.

This feature-length documentary follows the young company over the course of its first year as their profile expands across the world stage and into the homes of millions of gamers. Featuring insights from industry icons (Peter Molyneux, Tim Schafer), journalists (Geoff Keighley, Stephen Totilo), tastemakers (Gabe & Tycho of Penny Arcade), and players profoundly impacted by the game (Yogscast, The Shaft, Minecraft Teacher), the film serves as a time capsule for one of this generation's most unorthodox success stories.

[herantd]

"Now it should work! It's not working.. Why?"
Probably the most used sentence by any programmer

[gameswithsadness]

“We need to have exploding arrows in the game”

*cries in full release*

[Magnogen]

The three stages of a programmer:
- "It would be a good idea to..."
- "Now why isn't that working..."
- "Okay no that wasn't a good idea."

Bonus 4th stage:
- "Yep. That crashed it."

[dcwwekmods]

Every programmer:
"It's not working. But how?"
"It works! But how?"

[alpaca_growing_kit]

"... and i'm not entirely sure why"
The life of a coder, summed up in a single sentence.

[drplank]

“We need to have exploding arrows”
*Y e s p l e a s e*

[sulphurous]

3:18 The explosion was so powerful it even kills you in creative mode, nice.

[iyxan]

Notch is such a legend, he didn't even open stack overflow through the video

[iarejoey]

2018 and still waiting for exploding arrows

[saikithepsiioniic]

As a programmer, this was extremely satisfying to watch.

[Dylank]

Notch is such a legend, he’s programming Minecraft with a letterless keyboard

[the_boss]

He’s literally the creator of the game that defined a generation. Thank you Notch for the memories

[nathanu]

Notch: That isn't working... Hmm
*5 hours of him staring at the screen*
Notch: Oh its because I'm calling the wrong function

[Martin-wzrm]

3 years ago: I wanna someday code like him...
today: printf("hello world")

[jackl.]

I love how Notch is having tons of fun and laughing while debugging and Jeb is just like: 😒

[gianca]

2:33 "There we go, it should do something now, wow it didn't, why?... weird. Let's do this instead, okay that worked... yep, it crashed."
- Every programmer ever at some point

[SpoodyTheSpider]

notch reminds me of a little kid playing with lego
"lets make a bigger explosion"

[TheWatcher]

5 years later, still no exploding arrows

[allroundlad]

Anyone else find this deeply comforting and nostalgic? It's so humble and unassuming, noone could know it would become the best selling game of all time.

[nyanezt]

i understand Notch now, he looks so happy making and changing his game, but when it became this popular he probably felt much pressure, and the awaiting responsibility, he quit. and damn did he have a good idea. i feel like it would be so fun to make something like minecraft