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!
All the same though, I'm still gonna yell "DAMMIT NOTCH!" whenever a bug messes me up, it just rolls off the tongue so much easier than "DAMMIT JEB!".
I kinda did. He has done most of the interviews/statements/reports/stuff in the news and much of the development.
Isn't this old news? I thought this happened after MineCon.
Oh my gosh. I have heard so many posts like this (specifically about Dragons...). Jeb knows what he's doing. It's not like he'd wreck a game he helped make. Jeb listens to what people have to say. For people that don't believe that, Proof: He mostly is the one who put pistons into Minecraft (right?). We know what the game is. He does to. Jeb will try his best, and that is all he can do.
are you saying that next year there will be another new owner? i doubt it.....
Good luck Jeb, please take out mooshrooms.
Good decisions. I'd still hire another programmer though. At least get the basics down of what you want the game to be and let others mod the rest. Its still missing a lot of core features to make this a complete game.
I guess he must have caught wind that jeb might leave soon and has been getting offers ..
Ha. You make me laugh.
Cash-in with the game which will be the biggest success in your career, then leave the whole community hanging and "move on" to other projects... Minecraft is not over though. With Jeb it will be bigger than ever!
ALSO, Jeb is an excellent programmer, He made pistons and redstone repeaters, which is by far one of my favorite things in minecraft, and anyone who thinks notch would let Jeb remove any of the things notch put in (besides mooshrooms, those are fkin retarded) they're crazy, i heard one person say Jeb will remove dragons, ********! do you understand how hard it is to model something as complex as the enderdragon?
several people have said NOT PLAYING MINECRAFT ANYMORE, your telling me just cuz the owner doesn't want to work on it its awful, horrible, and will be destroyed?
WOW...
sorry for ranting...