"minecraft" was originally created as an experiment to test random generation for caves. "minecraft" was inspired by "infiniminer", a game created by zachary barth. the first version of minecraft was released for pc players on may 17, 2009 and it was called cave game. after going through alpha and beta versions, the full version was released on november 18, 2011. a version for android was released on october 7, 2011, and an ios version was released on november 17, 2011. at first, "minecraft" was created only by markus persson. other people started to work on it when persson started an independent video game company called mojang specifications. the company was later renamed simply to mojang. later in 2011, a version named was released for ios and android devices. this version was later renamed "bedrock edition". in 2012, persson gave jens "jeb" bergensten the job of being the main developer of "minecraft".