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Markus Alexej Persson was born in Stockholm, Sweden, to a Finnish mother, Ritva, [18] and a Swedish father, Birger, [19] on 1 June 1979. [20] [21] [18] He has one sister.[18] [22] He grew up in Edsbyn until he was seven years old, when his family moved back to Stockholm.
The popularity of Minecraft mods has been credited for helping Minecraft become one of the best-selling video games of all time. The first Minecraft mods worked by decompiling and modifying the Java source code of the game. The original version of the game, now called Minecraft: Java Edition, is still modded this way, but with more advanced tools.
While LGPL-2.1-or-later remains the main license for the Minetest engine, other free and open-source licenses are used for various other parts of the latest release. [2] Perttu Ahola was the only developer working on the project for about six months, until Ciaran Gultnieks started making code contributions in May 2011. [15]
OpenJDK (Open Java Development Kit) is a free and open-source implementation of the Java Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE). [2] It is the result of an effort Sun Microsystems began in 2006. The implementation is licensed under the GPL-2.0-only with a linking exception .
The Lightweight Java Game Library ( LWJGL) is an open-source software library that provides bindings to a variety of C libraries for video game developers to Java. It exposes cross-platform libraries commonly used in developing video games and multimedia titles, such as Vulkan, OpenGL, OpenAL and OpenCL . The primary goal of the project is to ...
Boids. Boids is an artificial life program, developed by Craig Reynolds in 1986, which simulates the flocking behaviour of birds, and related group motion. His paper on this topic was published in 1987 in the proceedings of the ACM SIGGRAPH conference. [ 1] The name "boid" corresponds to a shortened version of "bird-oid object", which refers to ...
Block by Block (program) Block by Block is a charitable initiative founded as a partnership between Minecraft developer Mojang and the United Nations which aims to encourage young people to get involved in urban regeneration. [ 1] The scheme uses Minecraft to allow children to rebuild and reimagine their hometowns. [ 2]
Blockly is a client-side library for the programming language JavaScript for creating block-based visual programming languages (VPLs) and editors. A project of Google, it is free and open-source software released under the Apache License 2.0. [2] It typically runs in a web browser, and visually resembles the language Scratch .