Markus Persson – The Creator Of Minecraft

[Applause] Bye thanks guys it’s very very interesting man he’s from Sweden Sweden yes he’s the creator of a game which is a change the way gaming is really what it was what I’m looking for gamed game yeah he’s the creator of the game minecraft the great Markus Persson [Applause] First of all welcome to the world of old-style entertainment this is how things used to be done before you guys made all the money it’s very professional it is very professional isn’t it with the horse and the smell of burning lights backstage and it’s actually significant fire album yeah it feels

Like it they told me to tell you so a view you’re from Sweden yeah have you ever been to the United States before yeah a few times yeah all right okay are our ways so different from yours no no I don’t think so look so mine corn was

Last weekend that’s the big convention you had in Florida Oh like people go crazy for this game minecraft yeah and I’ve tried to play it myself but I don’t think I don’t really understand what’s going on I don’t I’m not sure if I understand either okay

It’s like it’s sort of like Legos in the digital world and there might be things coming to get you but there might not be yeah exactly the entire game is kind of random to create it as well so you never know what’s gonna happen can it can it

Does it ever finish there is a there is an end to the game it’s I have mostly added it because it felt like games needed to have an ending right but you know it’s completely optional you don’t have to do it it’s like I guess with Lego you don’t have to

End a game of Lego it’s just like there and you play or don’t play exactly right is that really the thing that so people build these amazing constructions these worlds in Minecraft anyone below the age of 20 seems to be obsessed was this thing yeah you must be very wealthy

Yeah I have far more money than I can ever spend sir well good for you some put on a suit you care for a chocolate dollar don’t take them all man you got enough alright so oh you took a chocolate euro good yeah you yes gold bar Sweden

Doesn’t is Sweden to sweden used the euro no we have our kronor oh yes the kronor yeah worth not much but we like them good for you so so when you’re a kid you were inventing was it the typical and the basement kind of playing with the computers yeah your mom

Saying you’ll never amount to anything you’re like yeah right mom thanks a lot school would say that too really yeah the teachers would like give you a hard time some would others were kind of more understanding or just didn’t care about kids yeah I just like where I went to

School now what about the gaming world cuz every time I look at it like I looked you up on the internet and stuff and it seems like there’s quite a lot of bitchiness in your world like quite a lot of people like I hate him he created minecraft

How dare he not be me you know is it a very world you think yeah a little bit I don’t know why but I’m a gamer to him we would get very emotional but like the games play and we could very protective and I don’t know what

Why would do that cuz people don’t do their music or movies you know musicians actually musicians tend to be nice to each other but people in the movie business are oh they’re awful except if they’re here then you’re great you know you ever done a talk show before never

Therefore inherently have you no really I do this one but you missed that then yet yeah you racist so uh she still live in Sweden yep in Malmo no so calm good guess I thought you were from Malmo I smell it says on the internet you’re from Malmo

I like my world’s turned upside down man all right yeah maybe I don’t know we you the Minecraft guy no home video games do you do you do I’m actually a janitor I was told I was here to tell you about the it’s that you’re the Swedish janitor

Here talking about the fire yeah how’s it going good but I don’t know if it sounds good I think people die killers and tell me this when you’re playing video games do you play violent like mad video games are nothing like minecraft sometimes I could have played everything you do play

Everything are you doing I play everything oh really yeah display the they call of duty and what’s the other one the Grand Theft Auto yeah I like that mother figure he did yeah yeah I can’t do it I mean the only thing I can do is Mario Kart I like Mario Kart you

Like Mario Kart yeah it’s it’s coming up why did you laugh when I said Mario my gosh the proper game isn’t that no sure what do you mean sure are you rocking with me man it’s not a game it is a game it is a

Game but it’s when you try to play it competitively it’s kind of uneven because you get those the people are further back get stronger power-ups and it doesn’t feel like a proper game sorry no um so you don’t play you don’t but what if I pong you ever play pong that

Was the morning you’re kind of dating yourself here but yeah do you do you guys ever get nostalgic for the games like Donkey Kong and pike cuz that people kind of get into that stuff don’t they yeah I think there’s a lot of nostalgia going on in gaming world did

You ever see that documentary yeah the the king of King Kong your king of Kong yeah isn’t that great it’s pretty cool two guys that are fighting like that guys trying to play Donkey Kong but there’s no pause on it yeah and his kid is like that I need help with my

Homework he’s like yeah yeah get away from me alright alright that’s fun we had that guy here oh really yeah yeah well you know I don’t know if the show goes out and Stockholm no doesn’t I don’t know I downloaded it very legally off the internet you

Downloaded the show illegally no very no legally yeah I like it man he should come back are you know you’re on the Twitter as well you’re not right yeah not your name why not what’s that is that like a cool name yeah more or

Less yeah and I can I grew up all the people using computers had like all their own cool names that they made up so I thought I’d needed to have one so I just made it up that says just not she just made it up there’s no like you

Don’t have a notch on your belt or anything or I wish that’s one or two your Swedish man you guys are sexy as anything thank you yeah no no I didn’t mean you were with the dollar total not to yeah yeah so do you still how do you

Run your Minecraft company of you sold out to the evil corporations yet no we hope not too so basically idea is that we just have a company we make games that we think are fun so you haven’t sold out and become like you’re not a publicly traded company or anything no

Wow no any jobs going there buddy No that’s good but how long do you think be able to do that before you kind of get absorbed by the Borg I think that depends on how long we can I keep the fun mood going that we have right because we’re just trying to do our

Thing now and it’s so no the angry bird guys I met some on yeah they’re feelin they’re in Finland you guys dark rivals like whoever whoever country has the ring at whatever time they are the people who are the winners of Scandinavia now we already won that long

Ago no you don’t come on what about Norway they have aha yeah but that’s about it Oh Norway’s go haha and oil oil oil yeah normally well you don’t get then I mean come on I actually think they’re more octal well really the the Norwegians yeah and they put country that’s oil

10900 well yeah I guess and you get you you get attention then you get an engine I see where you’re going now we’re out of time cool so um what you think you can back to Sweden now yeah a few days give a go to the cafe

Oprah there in Stockholm I’ve been there yeah I’ve been there a couple of times what happened good yeah that’s nice thing there’s a lot of good fun things to get up to in Sweden yeah you ever go into them they’re really hot so on us and then jump into the cold war yeah

Yeah I’ve done that it yes Fernan it yeah I think you’re gonna buy every time you know you get you think you’re gonna die I know yeah you probably saved for playing video games really oh yeah you still : video games there’s just games I think I call them video games

Yeah that’s like country and western music you can’t call it country western just call it country like gaming cuz it’s not video any man what is the last time you used a video tape for anything say it to CBS you know what good talk good talk good talk whoa whoa whoa [Applause] So during the commercial break just after you know because Marcus is from Sweden and then we talked a little bit about Norway where a ha is from right and then they were playing take on me the song for the studio audience we’re very excited about it and and the

Warm-up comedian did you hear yeah yeah Bob what he said what do you take on me take on you yeah this soon as you know that it doesn’t stop being lame when we go to commercial bread