Minecraft wiki entry for Mojang_Studios, associated text: Following the end to his involvement with Minecraft, Notch began pre-production of an alternate reality space game set in the distant future in March 2012. 0x10c is a hexadecimal number equivalent to 1612 in decimal, which equals 281,474,976,710,656, which was the number of years that were passed in story since 1988. On April Fools' Day 2012, Mojang launched a satirical website for Mars Effect, citing the lawsuit with Bethesda as an inspiration.[41] However, the gameplay elements remained true and on April 4, 2012, Mojang revealed it as a space sandbox title.[42]