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|real_name       = Michael Stoyke
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|occupation      = Game developer
|nationality     = German
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|known_for       = Working on Mod Coder Pack<br> Specifying rotations using {{cmd|tp}}<ref>{{tweet|SeargeDP|422729058192207872}}</ref><br> {{cmd|particle}}<ref>{{tweet|SeargeDP|423139483874516993}}</ref><ref>{{tweet|SeargeDP|424758268750475264}}</ref><br> {{cmd|title}}<ref>{{tweet|SeargeDP|465805755153940480}}</ref>
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'''Michael "Searge"<ref>{{tweet|SeargeDP|397382546486333440}}</ref> Stoyke''' is a game developer working at [[Mojang Studios]]. He is currently working on ''[[Minecraft]]''. His employment at Mojang was announced on November 2, 2013 at the "Future of Minecraft" panel at MINECON 2013.<ref name=panel>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttBSiK01Mdg&t=26m34s</ref> His first day at the Mojang office was January 2, 2014.<ref>{{tweet|SeargeDP|418646344405118976}}</ref> He is most well known for founding the [[Programs and editors/Mod Coder Pack|Mod Coder Pack]]. He is the founding member of [[ModJam]] and was known for his 'secret feature' game where he adds secret features, mainly command block ones, to the game in secret and waits for users to find them and report them on Twitter. On February 13, 2015, Searge announced on Twitter that the 'secret feature' game would stop when snapshots are released for [[Java Edition 1.9]], claiming that it was getting 'a bit old'.<ref>{{tweet|SeargeDP|566249946987646976}}</ref><ref>{{tweet|SeargeDP|566250751543242753}}</ref>

== Trivia ==

* During the snapshots for [[Java Edition 1.9]] there used to be a written book in the [[End ship]]s. It reads "We will have something else here soon", referring to [[elytra]], and was signed by Searge.
* There is a secret signature for him and [[Jasper Boerstra|Jappa]] in the [[Armor Stand]] texture.

== Gallery ==
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File:Michael Stoyke Mojang avatar.png|Searge's official Mojang avatar from 2016-present.
File:Searge twitter.png|Searge's current Twitter avatar.
Searge skin.png|Searge's skin in ''Minecraft''.
</gallery>

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