Minecraft creator Notch has dumped development of his followup 0x10c.
Mr Persson blamed both the high levels of interest in 0x10c and code copiers for his decision to stop working on it.
"I was streaming code and someone copied all the code and made their own version of it," he said of the new game during a live web stream.
"That was kind of the start of the decline of 0x10c. I realised the community was more powerful than I had the energy for."
There had been a great deal of interest in the game, which was to feature an in-game computer which could be programmed and even infected with viruses by players - not least because of the success of Minecraft.
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Mr Persson blamed both the high levels of interest in 0x10c and code copiers for his decision to stop working on it.
"I was streaming code and someone copied all the code and made their own version of it," he said of the new game during a live web stream.
"That was kind of the start of the decline of 0x10c. I realised the community was more powerful than I had the energy for."
There had been a great deal of interest in the game, which was to feature an in-game computer which could be programmed and even infected with viruses by players - not least because of the success of Minecraft.