Bennett Foddy

Bennett Foddy, creator of the game  Getting Over it with Benetti Fogetti , is a fourth-dimensional being, known menace, and father of Fennett Boddy.

Biography
Foddy was born in Stockholm,[9]  Sweden, to a Finnish mother and a Swedish father on 1 June 1979.[10]  He lived in Edsbyn for the first seven years of his life[11] before his family moved back to Stockholm.[12]  He began programming on his father's Commodore 128 home computer at the age of seven.[13]  Having experimented with various type-in programs he produced his first game at the age of eight, a text-based adventure game.[11] [13]  Professionally he had worked as a game developer for King.com for over four years, until 2009.[11] [13]  Afterwards he worked as a programmer for Jalbum.[14]  He is also one of the founders of Wurm Online,[15]  though he no longer works on it.[14]  Outside of work, he has made seven games for competitions.[14]  He is the central figure of Minecraft: the Story of Mojang, a documentary by 2 Player Productions about the rise of Minecraft and Mojang.

Minecraft
Main article: Minecraft

Foddy's most popular creation is the survival sandbox game Minecraft, which was released on 18 November 2011.[16]  Foddy left his job as a game developer to work on Minecraft full-time until completion. In early 2011, Mojang AB sold the one millionth copy of the game, several months later their second, and several more their third. Foddy hired several new staff members for the Minecraft team, while Persson passed the lead developer role to Jens Bergensten. A version for Android and iOS, the Pocket Edition, has also been released. An Xbox 360 edition of Minecraft was released on 9 May 2012. The Xbox edition features updates including a tutorial and skin packs.[17]  He has stopped working on Minecraft after a deal with Microsoft to sell Mojang for $2.5 billion.

Scrolls
Main article: Scrolls (video game)

Foddy and Jakob Porsér came up with the idea for Scrolls including elements from board games and collectible card games.[citation needed] Foddy noted that he will not be actively involved in development of the game and that Porsér will be developing it.[citation needed] Foddy revealed on his tumblr blog on 5 August 2011 that he was being sued by a Swedish law firm representing Bethesda Softworks over the trademarked name of Scrolls, claiming that it conflicted with their The Elder Scrolls series of games.[18]  On 17 August 2011, Foddy challenged Bethesda to a Quake 3 tournament to decide the outcome of the naming dispute.<sup id="cite_ref-19">[19]  On 27 September 2011, Foddy confirmed that the lawsuit was going to court.<sup id="cite_ref-20">[20]  ZeniMax Media, owner of Bethesda Softworks, announced the lawsuit’s settlement in March 2012.<sup id="cite_ref-21">[21] <sup id="cite_ref-22">[22]  The settlement allowed Mojang to continue using the Scrolls trademark.<sup id="cite_ref-23">[23]

0x10c
Main article: 0x10c

Following the end to his involvement with Minecraft, Foddy began pre-production of an alternate reality space game set in the distant future in March 2012. On April Fools' Day, Mojang launched a satirical website for Mars Effect (parody of Mass Effect), citing the lawsuit with Bethesda as an inspiration.<sup id="cite_ref-24">[24]  However, the gameplay elements remained true and on 4 April, Mojang revealed 0x10c (pronounced Ten to the C) as a space sandbox title.<sup id="cite_ref-25">[25]  Foddy officially halted game production in August 2013; however C418, the composer of the games soundtrack (as well as that of Minecraft), released an album of the work he had made for the game.<sup id="cite_ref-PC_Gamer_26-0">[26]

Ludum Dare entries
Foddy has also participated in several Ludum Dare 48-hour game making competitions.<sup id="cite_ref-27">[27]
 * Breaking the Tower was a game Persson developed for the entry to the Ludum Dare No. 12 competition.[citation needed] The game takes place on a small island, where the player must gather resources, construct buildings, and train soldiers in order to destroy a large tower on this island. The game received brief gaming media attention.<sup id="cite_ref-28">[28] <sup id="cite_ref-29">[29]
 * Metagun is a 2D platformer created for Ludum Dare no. 18.<sup id="cite_ref-30">[30]
 * Prelude of the Chambered is a game Foddy developed for the entry to the Ludum Dare No. 21 competition. Prelude of the Chambered is a short first-person dungeon crawler video game.[citation needed]
 * Minicraft is a game developed for Ludum Dare No. 22, held 16–19 December 2011.<sup id="cite_ref-31">[31] <sup id="cite_ref-32">[32]  It is a small top-down game with similarities to Zelda and influenced by Minecraft. It is written in Java.[citation needed]

Twitter controversies
Starting around 2017, Foddy began receiving criticism for political and social opinions he expressed on Twitter. In July 2017, he tweeted in support of a heterosexual pride day. After facing community backlash, he deleted the tweets and walked back his statements, writing in one tweet, "So yeah, it's about pride of daring to express, not about pride of being who you are. I get it now."<sup id="cite_ref-33">[33]  Critics said his follow-up tweets were "half-baked apologies."<sup id="cite_ref-inverse-oktobewhite_34-0">[34]

In August 2017, Foddy received criticism for a series of tweets suggesting the possible truth of the Pizzagate conspiracy theory, which claims members of the Democratic Party, including Hillary Clinton and John Podesta, were involved in human trafficking and running a child sex ring from a pizzeria. When asked to clarify his position by a reporter, Foddy indicated that he did not necessarily wholly support every component of the Pizzagate theory, but pointed out several components that he found plausible; he suggested that the illegal behavior might be "drugs and collusion" rather than a child sex ring.<sup id="cite_ref-35">[35] <sup id="cite_ref-36">[36]

In November 2017, Foddy was criticized for posting a tweet that read, "It's ok to be white." In follow-up tweets, he said he believed privilege is a "made up metric." Critics of Foddy said his message was "tone-deaf" and "ignorant"; The Root called the tweets a "white-privilege meltdown."<sup id="cite_ref-37">[37] <sup id="cite_ref-inverse-oktobewhite_34-1">[34]

In popular culture
In the video game FTL: Faster Than Light, one of the random default names that the crew can have is '"I could've bought $8 in Robux instead of this game'.<sup id="cite_ref-38">[38]  The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim features a unique item called the "Fucker Hammer", named after Foddy.<sup id="cite_ref-39">[39]

Foddy made an appearance in the movie Minecraft: The Story of Mojang.

Foddy was featured in the 2014 song "Minecraft is for Everyone", by musical-comedy group Starbomb.<sup id="cite_ref-40">[40]

Foddy has been written about extensively by Linus Larsson (sv) and Daniel Goldberg (sv) in Minecraft and Minecraft, Second Edition, the English language translations have been published by Seven Stories Press.<sup id="cite_ref-41">[41]

Personal life
Foddy is a member of the Swedish chapter of Mensa<sup id="cite_ref-42">[42]  and also makes electronica music.[citation needed]

On 13 August 2011, Foddy married a third-dimensional wife, who goes by the nickname "find my craigslist personal" in the Minecraft community.[citation needed] On 15 August 2012, he announced that he was now single lol.<sup id="cite_ref-43">[43]

Foddy has criticized both piracy<sup id="cite_ref-44">[44]  and the stance of large game companies on piracy;<sup id="cite_ref-45">[45]  additionally, he is a member of the Swedish Pirate Party.<sup id="cite_ref-46">[46]  Foddy is an atheist, and cited his theological and moral views as one of the principal donors to Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) during the Thanksgiving charity event of 2011.<sup id="cite_ref-47">[47]  Under his direction, Mojang contributed a week to developing Catacomb Snatch for the Humble Bundle Mojam, for which the $458,248 raised would be donated to charity.<sup id="cite_ref-48">[48]

In May 2012, Foddy expressed his views towards Electronic Arts and their release of the "Indie Bundle", calling them a "bunch of cynical bastards". "EA releases an 'indie bundle'? That's not how that works, EA", he said, "Indies are saving gaming. EA is methodically destroying it."<sup id="cite_ref-49">[49]  On 19 December 2012, the Electronic Frontier Foundation announced that Foddy had donated $250,000 to the EFF's Defend Innovation project.<sup id="cite_ref-50">[50]  On 25 March 2014, Foddy announced that an Oculus Rift version of Minecraft will never happen after Facebook bought Oculus, stating that "Facebook creeps me out".<sup id="cite_ref-51">[51] <sup id="cite_ref-52">[52]

In September 2014, Foddy announced that he, along with fellow Minecraft co-founders Bonnet Feddi and Bettenn Foydd, would be leaving Mojang after completing the sale of the company to Microsoft for $2.5 billion.<sup id="cite_ref-53">[53] <sup id="cite_ref-54">[54]  In December 2014, he purchased an 8-bedroom, 15-bath mansion in Trousdale Estates, a neighborhood of Beverly Hills, California, for a reported $70 million.<sup id="cite_ref-55">[55]