Unfortunately, as with many large video game franchises, there are many different early builds from the early development cycles of the game that are now missing entirely, both from Mojang's official launcher and from the internet altogether. įrom this point onwards Minecraft went through many stages of development, with the first version of what is called the Release development cycle of the game being released in November 2011, after which Notch officially left the development team. The game was originally developed as a Java applet to be played in a browser, with a few private releases followed by the first publicly released version being shared by Notch to the tigsource forums and other sites such as the site on May 17th, 2009. It has since become one of the best-selling video games of all time. Minecraft is a PC Java sandbox game, now available on many different platforms, first developed in May 2009 by Markus Persson (Notch) and later by various different developers at Mojang. An example of a previously lost version known as 'Classic 0.0.22a_05.' It has now been recovered from an old player.
