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Markus Alexej Persson was born in Stockholm, Sweden, to a Finnish mother, Ritva, [2] and a Swedish father, Birger, [3] on 1 June 1979. [4] [5] [2] He has one sister.[2] [6] He grew up in Edsbyn until he was seven years old, when his family moved back to Stockholm.
The Mersenne Twister is a general-purpose pseudorandom number generator (PRNG) developed in 1997 by Makoto Matsumoto (松本 眞) and Takuji Nishimura (西村 拓士). [1] [2] Its name derives from the choice of a Mersenne prime as its period length. The Mersenne Twister was designed specifically to rectify most of the flaws found in older PRNGs.
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Minecraft: 2011 Mojang: 3D world primarily made of cube blocks. [31] Effectively infinite. [32] Minecraft Dungeons: 2020: Mojang: Randomly-generated 3D dungeons filled with monsters, traps and puzzles, and treasures. [33] [34] Mini Metro: 2015 Dinosaur Polo Club Abstract 2D levels and audio system. [35] No Man's Sky: 2016 Hello Games
Examples of such games include Dwarf Fortress, Minecraft, and Vintage Story. Procedural generation is also used in space exploration and trading games. Elite: Dangerous , through using the 400 billion known stars of the Milky Way Galaxy as its world basis, uses procedural generation to simulate the planets in these solar systems.
We can think of a pseudorandom number generator (PRNG) as a function that transforms a series of bits known as the state into a new state and a random number. That is, given a PRNG function and an initial state s t a t e 0 {\displaystyle \mathrm {state} _{0}} , we can repeatedly use the PRNG to generate a sequence of states and random numbers.
First logo used from 2010 to 2017. The 2b2t Minecraft server was founded in December 2010; it has run consistently without a reset since then. [6] [1] The founders are anonymous, [7] choosing to remain unknown or known only via usernames; the most prominent founder is commonly referred to as "Hausemaster".
The first ever version of Minecraft was released in May 2009, [11] but client-side modding of the game did not become popular in earnest until the game reached its alpha stage in June 2010.