Persson, far left, and Bergensten, the minds behind Minecraft, brandishing the game's pixelated swords
Since December 2011, Jacob Granberry and Will Blew have been overseeing a land-development effort of truly epic proportions. Covering more territory than the city of Los Angeles, it's about 70% complete and already contains about 8,000 structures. It's so sprawling and ambitious, though, that nobody knows for sure just what's there. "I haven't seen near everything, and I started the damn project," says Granberry.
Their undertaking happens to be a digital re-creation of Westeros, the fabled continent from George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire books and the HBO series based upon them, Game of Thrones. And they happen...
