Back when Mojang was first acquired, it was mentioned that over half the staff there was working on games that weren't Minecraft.
However, in an interview today with someone who was leaving the studio, they said this:
The implication there seems to be that they're not doing anything that's not Minecraft?
However, in an interview today with someone who was leaving the studio, they said this:
Source: http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2017-07-27-daniel-kaplan-leaves-mojang-for-coffee-stainGamesIndustry.biz said:Minecraft is now so popular and far-reaching it can feel like it's been around forever, but its rise to ubiquity played out in considerably less than a decade.
Daniel Kaplan was there for almost every day of that remarkable journey. He was the first Mojang employee hired by Markus "Notch" Persson in 2010, a year after the company was founded and just a few months after the launch of Minecraft's alpha version. What happened since is one of the great success stories in the history of this industry, and as business developer, producer and production director Kaplan has played an essential role in getting Minecraft to where it is today.
However, just as Persson decided to step away from the company in 2014, Mojang's employee #1 has also decided it's time to move on.
"It's very emotional," Kaplan says, speaking exclusively to GamesIndustry.biz. "It was hard to come to this conclusion. Minecraft has been great. It's still Minecraft, we're still doing cool stuff with Minecraft, but I wanted to explore other ideas as well."
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The implication there seems to be that they're not doing anything that's not Minecraft?