Seeing as how you’re reading this website at this specific time of day, I have to imagine you have — at one point or another — imagined what it’d be like to create a game from scratch; we’ve all been there. Markus Persson, the gentleman best known forMinecraft, can help with that.

You see, he created a game for the down-and-dirty design competitionLudum Dare 18— and he streamed the entire creation process live. Genius! I was there for part of the “show,” so I feel okay in saying that this time-lapse video of the dev cycle is vastly more enjoyable to watch.

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Timelapse of a game programmer[Reddit viaGawker.TV]

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