Minecraft’s Accidental Creeper Origin

What if I told you that the world’s most popular game was built in just six days and its

most iconic monster was actually a total accident? It’s true. Minecraft began

as a simple "cave game" experiment by a developer named Notch, but during the process,

a coding glitch swapped the dimensions of a pig, creating the tall, exploding freak

of nature we now know as the Creeper. But the scale of this accident is even more mind-blowing:

a single Minecraft world is technically nine times the surface area of planet Earth, filled with hidden

"love letters" like a 1-in-10,000 chance for the title screen to misspell its own name as "Minceraft."

From a week-long project to a universe of endless secrets, Minecraft proves that even the biggest