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Jason Major

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Jason Major is a former member of the Minecraft Redmond studio and a developer for Bedrock Edition.[3][4] He has also written a novel. He has helped program over a dozen AAA video games including NBA Live 98, Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit and Halo 2 along with numerous others. He was born and raised in Canada but currently lives in the Seattle area with his wife and two sons.

Trivia

  • Jason contributed major changes to rabbits, which were introduced with the first Bedrock Edition rabbits for Alpha 0.13, and later ported to Java Edition 1.9.[3]
  • During a game jam, Jason first came up with the stray, among a bunch of other mobs – Jeb "thought these particular ones fitted really well with what we were already planning [for Java Edition 1.10]" [5]
  • Root beer is one of his favorite drinks and he usually has some in glass bottles by his desk.
  • He occasionally joins the official Minecraft livestreams and he was present on the livestream where the dyeable beds were previewed
  • Jason's current Twitter avatar.
    Jason's current Twitter avatar.

References

  1. ↑ "My first novel is now available to nominate on Kindle Scout. By nominating you may earn a free copy from Amazon!!! https://kindlescout.amazon.com/p/3OHQ2ZMCKVKQU" – @argo_major (Jason Major) on X (formerly Twitter), April 19, 2016
  2. ↑ https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/credits
  3. ↑ a b "Good Monday! @argo_major's rabbit improvements (for MC:PE) have now been added back to MC:PC, and will be included in the next snapshot" – @jeb_ (Jens Bergensten) on X (formerly Twitter), November 9, 2015
  4. ↑ " Watching Minecon last weekend was weird for me as it is the last one where I was a member of the Minecraft team. After ~7 years of working on Minecraft, yesterday was my last day. Excited about the opportunities that are in front of me but it’s hard not to be a little sad." – @argo_major (Jason Major) on X (formerly Twitter), October 23, 2021
  5. ↑ They’re based on a concept that emerged from a game jam the Bellevue team had, where they were just adding a bunch of stuff to Minecraft - whatever they wanted. Jason Major made a bunch of cool mobs and I thought these particular ones fitted really well with what we were already planning. So we added them! – Jens Bergensten, December 16, 2016

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