When it was released to the public (developmental Alpha version) he was 29 years old(almost 30).
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Minecraft was made in Sweden by programmer Markus "Notch" Persson.
Notch (Markus Persson) is 37 years old.
Markus Persson was born in Stockholm, Sweden, on June 1, 1979. He grew up in the small town of Edsbyn, surrounded by forests that would influence his biggest game creation, Minecraft, decades later. Growing up, he was an obsessive Lego builder, until he was 7 and his father brought home a Commodore 128 computer. Persson latched right on, and he would fake stomachaches to stay home from school and write code. By the time he was 8, he had written his first computer program
Minecraft was created by Mojang or more specifically, Markus "Notch" Persson and Jens "Jeb" Bergersten. It was officially released on November 18, 2011 on PC and on May 9, 2012 on XBox. In May 17, 2009, it was released in "Alpha" and in "Beta" on December 20, 2011 for players to find out the bugs. To answer your question, Minecraft is approximately 3 years old in 2013.
The default Minecraft character/skin does not have an official name, but in a very old blog pst, when Markus "Notch" Persson (Minecraft's original creator and developer) was asked what the character's/skin's name was, he replied "Steve?" Since no players really know what the name of the character/skin is, and they only have this information to back them up, most players name the character/skin Steve.