The author of Minecraft will receive an award for his contribution to the gaming industry

Markus “Notch” Persson (Markus ‘Notch’ Persson) will get a new award. At the GDC Awards ceremony, the creator of Minecraft will be awarded the Pioneer Award.

Persson will receive the award, of course, for Minecraft. The organizers of the event want to celebrate the contribution of the project to the industry in this way. Minecraft became the third in the list of the most popular games in history, popularized the idea of user-generated content and influenced many game genres.

Recall that Minecraft was released in 2011. Since that moment, the project has sold 72 million copies on various platforms. Before that, Persson had already been awarded several times. So, in 2011, at the Game Developers Conference, the title won in the categories “best downloadable game” and “best debut”. The project also received the “Innovation Award”.

The Pioneer Award, which was previously called the First Penguin Award, is awarded as part of the Game Developers Choice Awards to representatives of game developers who have made a breakthrough in the field of technology, concept or gameplay and have shown the way to millions of followers. Earlier, the Pioneer Award was received by the founders of Riot Games Brandon Beck and Marc Merrill, the head of Valve Gabe Newell and the creator of Shenmue Yu Suzuki.

Source: Venture Beat