Imagine being one of those people who saw this game on the forums and watched it become the best-selling game of all time

Bro dropped the hardest Minecraft documentary

It was amazing that cameras recorded him the whole time he made the game... and also in such filmic white space!

"Dung" for "Dungeon" must be one of the most unfortunate abbreviations

Carl is such a rare ceo. Glad he got rewarded for being a good person before a businessman

As a Norwegian i can comfortably say that this is one of the very few Swedish inventions i'll publicly admit is goated

Man C418 cooked so hard. He probably had no idea how legendary that OST would end up becoming.

Special shout out to Carl Manneh for recognizing talent&passion in his employee and deciding to nurture it, instead of smothering it in the name of productivity!

You having the dates of everything is really nostalgic for me. I remember when Minecraft launched in 2011. I was in the 7th grade and idk how but that game hit the streets like crack in the 80s .. especially for kids who were like 12-15.

Mojang fought back against pay to win bullshit and fans got mad? Those fools are solely responsible for what gaming has become now

That actor was spot on! I actually thought it was notch himself.

I was one of the Alpha version people, really great to have that experience and open the game up today and see the now endless possibilities.

Huge W for having such details like his Eclipse IDE, Windows version, file dates, etc. That's impressive!

21:05 I looked away for two min and got really confused how we went from Minecraft to Bin Laden's compoind

I was a very early tester on Infiminer. Notch was a player/tester there too. There is a big chunk of the start of Minecraft that is just wrong. This alpha stage when I first ran into him, we were testing multiplayer with a distributed server idea. Basically, each player had an instance of the server running, carrying the load of what needed to be done. The idea being that the more players you had, the more load was on the server, but the more powerful the server got. At this stage, the game had two types of blocks. Those generated by the server, and those placed by a player. The worlds were available with X-Y coordinates, but no Z. This is because of how the world generation worked off a bitmap. So, players were on a single block wide world, could remove the server generated blocks and blocks they placed. but not blocks other players placed. There were problems with the distributed server load getting code injected into it, making this idea very difficult to use. Notch used what he learned testing here, and implemented it in Minecraft. This is why the XYZ coordinates in Mincraft on on their side too. Notch recruited testers from Infiminer to alpha test Minecraft as well. I was one of those testers. The alpha game I started testing felt like Infiminer with a Z axis, player owned blocks removed, and a new texture pack. Even when it went from alpha to a paid Beta, I bought it and kept playing. I still play. My son started playing when he was 2, and still plays at the age of 16.

This is a great example of "Ideas are cheap". Infiniminer was the idea, but the people, who made it didnt do a good job following through on the idea and making something great out of it.

It's hard to overstate the feeling of playing those early alpha versions at that time. The idea that you could reshape a video game world in practically unlimited ways and walk through it in first person was like a whole new universe in gaming. Dig a tunnel down into the ground, build a tower and climb it, carve a straight road through the hills, these were things that were simply not done by players before. This was before there were tools or resources or mobs mind you, it was just clicking blocks into our out of existence alone that was enough to get people extremely excited about the possibilities of such a game.

I never knew The Order Of The Stone from Minecraft Story Mode came from Minecrafts original name.

I was a player from Cambodia. I played minecraft in 2013. This documentary brings back a long lost memory. I'm considering going back to Minecraft. Thank you

Notch teaming up with C418 was probably the best decision in gaming history