
Minecraft: The Story of Mojang
Mojang, the small studio behind Minecraft, spends its first year turning a one-man passion project into a company trying to keep up with its own success. This 20-minute short, made to raise Kickstarter funds for a full-length follow-up, traces that scramble through footage of the team at work alongside clips pulled from the Minecraft community itself: a working Rube Goldberg machine built entirely from in-game blocks, a scale replica of Earth, an endless waterslide, and other player-made structures that show how far people pushed a game about placing cubes. The soundtrack leans on chiptune-adjacent tracks from C418, the composer whose music became inseparable from the game's identity. There's no narrator walking you through Mojang's finances or org chart here; the film works more as a mood piece and proof of concept, letting the scale of what players built stand in for the argument that Minecraft's success was as much a community achievement as a corporate one.