Notch added that it was a "scary move, but I feel strangely confident. I guess we've worked close enough for long enough for me to feel confident about it. He's exactly what Minecraft needs right now. He's a bit more mod friendly than I am, and we need to embrace mods more."
Jeb commented on the situation as well, stating that he wasn't "sure when the idea came up the first time (from Notch), but it has been a few months now. We all knew that Notch was going to work on other things after release, so it kind of seemed natural for me to 'take over'."
Jeb's next step is to work on the mod API for Minecraft, a long-awaited feature for players and modders alike. He had the following to say on the API:
He went on to add that a release for the new API would likely be seen no sooner than March.Quote fromUntil January I will be the only developer on Minecraft, so things will have to be slow initially. But my absolute main priority now is to create a mod API, because there is no way in hell I will be able to add as much content as the whole internet can do. The game needs an API, so end users can obtain the mods without hassle. I'm not going to do it all by myself though. We have a new programmer beginning in January, and we are talking to existing mod API teams, such as Bukkit, Minecraft Forge, and Minecraft Coder Pack.
Notch and Jeb have collaborated on Minecraft development for over a year, and Notch has expressed the utmost confidence in his collaborator's capabilities. You can contact Jeb via e-mail (at [email protected]), or on Twitter.
Jeb was originally hired as Mojang's back-end developer. Over time, Jeb became increasingly involved in the development of Minecraft, and is now responsible for many well-known parts of the game. Having worked on features such as wolves, pistons and map structures (villages, strongholds and nether fortresses), he now takes his vision of Minecraft's future foward as the official head developer of the game. Congratulations, Jeb!
You haven't noticed anything different in the past 10 months?
People don't understand the time at the top of the posts.
Are we playing the same game?
Someone with a mind. The staff and I aren't the only ones with brains.
makes me lol so hard
This happened almost a year ago, dude. Read the first post and, more importantly, check its date!
You do realize this was posted 3 years ago, right?
Am I like the only person on this forums who still thinks Minecraft is a good game after 3 years of playing it? I mean seriously, Jeb hasn't done that bad of a job with it. I like an adventure style game, and that's what this game can offer really. Survival and Hardcore for the adventurers, and Creative for the sandboxers.
Coming from a map builder, I think the new updates give us alot more to offer. Stuff that I couldn't use in my maps before are gonna be added, frankly, i'm excited for 1.8
People are still mad Jeb is in control instead of Notch? He handed control to Jeb. I don't know why anyone would think he didn't trust Jeb and his vision of the game.
Under Jeb's watch we've had tons of new content and regular, weekly updates. Notch went back on his own statements plenty of times from Minecrafts conception, because that's how ideas grow. It was moving in a more adventure-focused direction long before he handed over control.
Minecraft never catered to one specific type of player (the sandbox player). There are players who just enjoy exploring, or just farming, or just redstone engineering, or just pvp. There's nothing that's been added to the game that makes "sandbox" play impossible. And if you truly think there is, there's always an older version of the game.
You needed to highlight 2011, not December; otherwise people will think it was just a few months ago.