Minecraft is an open world video game originally created by Swedish programmer <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markus_Persson" title="Markus Persson" target="_blank">Markus "Notch" Persson</a> and later developed and published by his company <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mojang" title="Mojang" target="_blank">Mojang</a>