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Well, he invented both the parent and the cousin of Minecraft.


What's that referring to? I meant Infiniminer, I'm not too familiar with his other work.


Infiniminer is the "parent" of Minecraft, because Notch made the latter after he was inspired by the source-leak of the former to port the code from C# to Java.

Infinifactory is the "cousin" of Minecraft, because it was built using Infiniminer's engine directly by Zach.




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