august 2013 type subsidiary industry video games founded may 2009 ; 7 years ago 2009 05 headquarters maria skolgata 83 bv se 118 53 stockholm sweden 1 key people jonas m rtensson ceo vu bui coo karin severinson cfo products minecraft scrolls cobalt minecraft story mode trademark licensed to telltale games revenue 2.069 billion sek 2013 operating income 895.816 million sek 2013 profit 816.049 million sek 2013 total assets 1.454 billion sek 2013 total equity 816.099 million sek 2013 number of employees 51 november 2015 2 parent microsoft studios 3 subsidiaries mojang synergies ab mojang support ab website mojang.com footnotes references 2013 year end report 4 mojang ab offices in maria skolgata 83 nb 5 mojang ab swedish m j gadget is a swedish video game developer founded in may 2009 under the name mojang specifications by game programmer markus persson 6 best known for creating the popular independent game minecraft a sandbox game . mojang s company headquarters is in stockholm . 7 microsoft acquired mojang in 2014 at valuation of 2.5 billion . 8 contents 1 history 1.1 independent era 2009 2014 1.2 microsoft subsidiary 2014 present 2 games 2.1 mini games 2.2 unreleased games 3 block by block project 4 lawsuits 4.1 zenimax media v. mojang ab 4.2 uniloc usa v. mojang ab 5 awards 6 references 7 external links history edit independent era 2009 2014 edit following a paid trip and employment offer from valve corporation in early september 2010 markus persson founded mojang alongside his best friend jakob pors r with carl manneh later brought in as a ceo 9 as persson desired to run a self made independent studio for the continued development of minecraft . 10 within a year the company grew to a size of twelve employees with their second video game scrolls in development as well as serving as the publisher of cobalt . 11 in 2011 napster founder and former facebook president sean parker offered to invest in mojang but was declined . 12 by march 2012 the company had accumulated revenues of over 80 million . 13 in september 2012 mojang began a partnership with united nations human settlements programme called block by block which entails having minecraft players constructing sites in game to use as a basis for assisted development of the village of kibera in the nairobi area of kenya . 14 microsoft subsidiary 2014 present edit on 15 september 2014 microsoft announced a deal to acquire mojang for 2.5 billion in a deal made official on 6 november 2014 . 8 15 with their stakes in the company bought out the three founders markus persson carl manneh and jakob pors r left the company . 15 16 microsoft ceo satya nadella stated that a major reason for acquiring mojang was hololens . 17 games edit title year genre platforms notes minecraft 18 2011 sandbox java platform java applet windows os x linux android ios amazon fire tv windows phone windows 10 xbox 360 xbox one playstation 3 playstation 4 playstation vita raspberry pi wii u 19 first game released . the alpha version of minecraft first became available to the public in 2009 . scrolls 20 21 2014 tactical rpg windows os x android ios minecraft story mode 22 2015 action adventure android ios playstation 3 playstation 4 windows xbox 360 xbox one os x wii u developed in association with telltale games . cobalt 23 2016 action sidescroller windows linux os x xbox 360 xbox one first third party published title developed in collaboration with oxeye game studio . crown and council 2016 turn based strategy windows developed by one employee henrik pettersson mini games edit lord lard s start in catacomb snatch title year genre catacomb snatch 2012 for mojam shoot em up endless nuclear kittens 2013 for mojam 2 action nuclear pizza war 2013 for mojam 2 tower defense battle frogs 2013 for mojam 2 side scroller docktor 2014 for games against ebola healthcore evolved 2014 for games against ebola snake oil stanley 2014 for games against ebola mojang began its tradition of developing smaller projects for the humble bundle mojam with a shoot em up strategy game with steampunk and ancient egypt themes called catacomb snatch . 81 575 bundles were sold raising us 458 248.99 24 of which all proceeds were given to four charities and non profit organizations including charity water child s play electronic frontier foundation and american red cross . both the genre and theme were picked by a survey on mojang s website combination of the highest and lowest voted of each . 25 the following year three mini games were simultaneously developed for the humble bundle mojam 2 . 26 unreleased games edit until july 2012 mojang was co developing a video game codenamed rex kwon do alongside an undisclosed developer . before the title had reached a significant stage of development mojang cancelled the collaboration due to their lack of involvement and influence on the project . 27 in march 2012 persson revealed that he would be designing a space sandbox game . although mojang teased with an april fools day website based around mars effect citing the bethesda lawsuit it was confirmed that the game was indeed in development albeit with a different name . 28 on 4 april mojang revealed the game s title to be 0x10c set in the year 281 474 976 712 644 ad of a parallel universe . 29 in april 2013 persson announced that the game was shelved due to a creative block . in august of that year he claimed that the game was indefinitely postponed with the incentive that other mojang staff members could continue its production should they desire . citation needed block by block project edit in september 2012 mojang began the block by block charity project in cooperation with un habitat to create and design real world environments in minecraft . 30 the project allows young people who live in those environments to participate in designing the changes they would like to see and involve them in urban planning . using minecraft the community has helped reconstruct the areas of concern and citizens are invited to enter the minecraft servers and modify their own neighborhood . carl manneh mojang s managing director called the game the perfect tool to facilitate this process adding that the three year partnership will support un habitat s sustainable urban development network to upgrade 300 public spaces by 2016 . mojang signed minecraft building community fyreuk to help render the environments into minecraft . the first pilot project began in kibera one of nairobi s informal settlements and is in the planning phase . the block by block project is based on an earlier initiative started in october 2011 mina kvarter my block which gave young people in swedish communities a tool to visualize how they wanted to change their part of town . according to manneh the project was a helpful way to visualize urban planning ideas without necessarily having a training in architecture . 31 by 2016 300 of the areas un habitat plans to remodel will be recreated in minecraft . 32 lawsuits edit zenimax media v. mojang ab edit zenimax media the parent company of bethesda softworks filed a lawsuit against mojang on 27 september 2011 claiming that mojang s planned trademark of the title scrolls infringed upon bethesda s trademark of the elder scrolls series . 33 on 18 october markus persson announced that mojang had won the interim injunction but that bethesda still had the option to file an appeal . 34 in march 2012 mojang and bethesda reached a settlement in which mojang would not trademark scrolls but bethesda would not contest mojang s naming of scrolls so long as it would not be a direct competitor against the elder scrolls . 35 during this time persson jokingly asked if bethesda was willing to play a game of quake 3 to settle the dispute . 36 uniloc usa v. mojang ab edit on 20 july 2012 uniloc filed a lawsuit against mojang citing the minecraft pocket edition as an infringement upon patents that give uniloc exclusive rights to license checks on android devices . 37 in 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