Jens Bergensten is one of the most popular and richest Game Designer who was born on May 18, 1979 in Orebro, Sweden. Swedish designer of video games who became known for his work on the popular game Minecraft.
He took over the development of Minecraft from the game’s previous designer Markus Persson.
After the insolvency of Oblivion, Bergensten moved to Malmö and earned a master’s degree in computer science at Lund University in 2008. During his studies he founded the indie game development company, Oxeye Game Studio, along with Daniel Brynolf and Pontus Hammarber. The studio became known for the platform game Cobalt and the real-time strategy game Harvest: Massive Encounter.
Until 24 November 2010, Bergensten worked for the online knowledge community, Planeto.
He married Jenny Thornell in 2013. He has one son.
