Jens Bergensten is a Swedish programmer and computer game designer. In 2013, he entered the 100 most influential people on the planet according to the Time edition. 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 Orebro, 200 km from Stockholm. From childhood he showed interest in the exact sciences. After school, Jens continued his studies at one of the universities in Stockholm, where he mastered the specialty of a programmer. He soon became interested in computer design.
After the University of Bergensten, he worked in game development for a long time. He also dabbled in game design. However, his work did not have much success. Bergensten has a personal website hosting the indie games he created during this period.
Career
In 2011, Jens joined the Mojang company, which specialized in the development of computer games. He quickly joined the team, where he initially worked on the creation of the Scrolls role-playing strategy. Jens soon joined the development team of the legendary Minecraft. Despite its simplicity, the game has gathered millions of fans in many countries. Spoiled by a variety of "shooters" and strategies, gamers took the "calm" Minecraft with enthusiasm.
Jens worked in tandem with Markus Persson on the game. He came up with a number of innovations, including underground fortresses, pistons, villages, a number of new mobs. Soon Persson gave up overseeing the Minecraft project. Since then, Bergensten has been the main developer. 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 subject the building 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 from everywhere. So, the 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 respects this is the merit of Bergensten.
Jens has been involved in the development of a number of games, including:
- Strategist strategy;
- arcade Harvest: Massive Encounter;
- Fillauth ("rework" Fallout);
- corporate walker Because It's fun, Fay.
Personal life
Bergensten is married. His wife's name is Jenny. There is no information about her occupation, as well as joint photographs with Jens. His social media pages contain only information about the video games he is developing. It is known that the family has a son named Björn.
