It was pretty bare bones - just the most minimal Minecrafty features in mobile form, hammered together in a mere three months.Īs Aron says: “It wasn’t even supposed to have multiplayer at first, and the first internal version only had an ASCII renderer!” What a long way we’ve come! At its inception, Pocket Edition was little more than an experiment by mega-brained Mojang coder, Aron Nieminen.