Kingbdogz
Brandon "kingbdogz" Pearce is a Mojang Studios employee currently working as a game designer at the headquarters in Stockholm, Sweden.[3]
Brandon attended Ballajura Community College from 2007 to 2012.[4] In 2010, while he was in community college, Brandon started his game design career by independently creating the popular mods The Aether and Aether II, which were downloaded millions of times worldwide. For a decade, he worked as the team lead for a group of modders around the world to develop mods for Minecraft. Besides his famous work as a modder, Brandon also worked as Software Developer at Nerd Kingdom (2013-2014) and Innovation Engineer at VGW (2018-2019).[4]
Brandon presented at MINECON Live 2019 with some other Minecraft modders on a community panel after the show, about game design in Minecraft.[5]
| Real name | Brandon James Pearce |
|---|---|
| Date of birth | February 23, 1995 (age 31)[1] |
| Occupation | Game Designer[2] |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Known for | Developing The Aether mod Designing striders and the deep dark |
| Reddit name | kingbdogz |
| X (Twitter) handle | @kingbdogz |
| Bluesky handle | @kingbdogz.bsky.social |
| Bug tracker profile | kingbdogz |
| YouTube channel | kingbdogz |
| Minecraft name | kingbdogz |
Brandon "kingbdogz" Pearce is a Mojang Studios employee currently working as a game designer at the headquarters in Stockholm, Sweden.[3]
Biography
Brandon attended Ballajura Community College from 2007 to 2012.[4] In 2010, while he was in community college, Brandon started his game design career by independently creating the popular mods The Aether and Aether II, which were downloaded millions of times worldwide. For a decade, he worked as the team lead for a group of modders around the world to develop mods for Minecraft. Besides his famous work as a modder, Brandon also worked as Software Developer at Nerd Kingdom (2013-2014) and Innovation Engineer at VGW (2018-2019).[4]
Brandon presented at MINECON Live 2019 with some other Minecraft modders on a community panel after the show, about game design in Minecraft.[5]
In January 2020, Brandon joined Mojang Studios as a Game Designer.[4][3] Since then, he has contributed to designing and developing new Minecraft features, such as the strider and the warden, shaping the development of several updates. He also revisited old features in Minecraft by modifying them through modern game design principles.
Brandon is capable of coding in both Java and C++ engines. Stemming from his experience working with team members around the world, he is also familiar with working remotely with teams across different time zones.
Trivia
- In the April fools snapshot 23w13a_or_b, naming a wolf "kingbdogz" using a name tag causes the wolf to be given a crown.
Gallery
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Brandon Pearce's Minecraft skin (Without the cape). -
Brandon's current Twitter avatar. -
One of Brandon's previous Twitter avatars. -
A wolf with a crown, after being named "kingbdogz". (Appears in snapshot 23w13a or b) -
Brandon holding dirt. -
Brandon in a field. -
Brandon's rat form. -
Brandon's Twitter banner.
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References
- ↑ "i was born 28 years ago 😱" – @kingbdogz on X (formerly Twitter), February 23, 2023
- ↑ https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/credits
- ↑ a b "Come January 2020, I'll be moving to Sweden to work at Mojang as a Gameplay Developer for Minecraft." – @kingbdogz on X (formerly Twitter), December 5, 2019
- ↑ a b c Brandon Pearce on Linkedin
- ↑ "Crafting Experiences: Game Design in Minecraft" – Minecraft on YouTube, September 29, 2019
