13 Facts About Jens Bergensten

Jens Bergensten is best known as the lead designer of Minecraft, and is the chief creative officer of Mojang Studios.

Jens Peder Bergensten was born on 18 May 1979 in Orebro, Sweden.

On 11 May 2013, Bergensten married photographer Jenny Bergensten.

Jens Bergensten started programming his first games at 11 years old, using BASIC and Turbo Pascal.

Jens Bergensten later discontinued this project after straying from the team's original creative vision for the project.

Jens Bergensten publicly released the world editors and source code for Akarra's server client in 2008.

Jens Bergensten was known for the real-time strategy game Harvest: Massive Encounter and later the platform games Cobalt and Cobalt WASD.

Until 24 November 2010, Jens Bergensten worked for the online knowledge community; Planeto.

In November 2010, Jens Bergensten was hired as Mojang's back-end developer for Scrolls.

Jens Bergensten later began programming increasingly significant parts of Minecraft until he became its lead designer in December 2011, taking over from Markus Persson.

Jens Bergensten was part of the team that developed Catacomb Snatch as part of Humble Bundle Mojam, a game jam.

In recent years Jens Bergensten has been featured in the teaser videos for Minecraft Live along with Agnes Larsson.

Currently, Jens Bergensten serves as the chief creative officer of Mojang Studios.