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{{Infobox person
|title = Ryan Holtz
|image = Ryan Holtz.png
|imagesize =
|real_name = Ryan Alexander Holtz<ref name="Bat Country">https://web.archive.org/web/20131112124927/http://www.batcountryentertainment.com/team.html</ref>
|date_of_birth = {{Birth date and age|1985|8|5|mf=yes}}
|occupation = Game developer
|nationality = American<ref>{{tweet|TheMogMiner|398542243470249984|@Pyroarcher99 American, born and raised|November 7, 2013}}</ref>
|languages = English, French<ref>{{tweet|TheMogMiner|398308159422349313|I like being the de facto francophone Mojangster. Everyone poked fun at me for taking French instead of Spanish, now who has the last laugh?|November 6, 2013}}</ref>
|website = * [https://web.archive.org/web/20150625010657/http://polygonal-moogle.com/ "Mog's Musings"]<ref>{{tweet|TheMogMiner|470558490009042944|Yay, my new site is up! http://polygonal-moogle.com/uncategorized/on-sweden/ …|May 25, 2014}}</ref> (defunct)
* [https://www.furaffinity.net/user/themogminer/ Fur Affinity]
|known_for = [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qF5PLvn4sTw Colored lighting video] Transparency fixes<ref>{{tweet|TheMogMiner|402805287771308032|Hooray: http://i.imgur.com/SYqd70E.png Hooray again: http://i.imgur.com/fsZKAqe.png Hooray (two in one!): http://i.imgur.com/KgSuIge.png|November 19, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{tweet|jeb|413984532191526912|Last screenshot of the year, a bouncy block that wasn't possible before @TheMogMiner's transparency render fix: http://i.imgur.com/kl66PIp.png|December 20, 2013}}</ref> World customization<ref>{{tweet|TheMogMiner|458568711926841344|I made a thing!|April 22, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{tweet|TheMogMiner|458620414424801280|Just a quick update, you folks asked for the ability to select a specific biome, so I went and did that too:|April 22, 2014}}</ref> {{bug|MC-9553|Fixed particle rendering}}<ref>{{tweet|TheMogMiner|461449095211913217|A hint about one of the bugs I fixed for this week's snapshot, which should make people happy: http://i.imgur.com/t218sP5.png|April 30, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{tweet|TheMogMiner|461450147827027968|@iTouchMasterPro Almost! Just particles for now. :D|April 30, 2014}}</ref>
|wiki_name =
|forum_name = UltraMoogleMan
|reddit = TheMogMiner
|twitter = TheMogMiner
|youtube = [https://www.youtube.com/@ryanholtz7382 ryanholtz7382]
|minecraft_name = TheMogMiner
|bug_tracker = TheMoogle
}}

'''Ryan Holtz''' is a former game developer at [[Minecraft:Mojang Studios]] who worked on the rendering engine of ''[[Minecraft:Minecraft]]''. His employment at Mojang was announced on November 2, 2013 at the "Future of Minecraft" panel at [[Minecraft:MINECON 2013]].<ref name=panel>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttBSiK01Mdg&t=26m34s</ref> His first day at the Mojang office was November 18, 2013.<ref>{{tweet|TheMogMiner|413398742042042369|Woo, just realized it's the one-month anniversary of me starting here (my first technical day was 18 November)! Wooooooo!|December 18, 2013}}</ref>

== Biography ==
Holtz is from [[Minecraft:wikipedia:Buffalo, New York|Buffalo, New York]].<ref>{{tweet|TheMogMiner|464379763432632320|@MikeSloanCreate Buffalo NY, just bordering Canada. Lake effect snow equals 1m or more of snow every winter. Hardens you up real fast.|May 8, 2014}}</ref> In his early teens, he was diagnosed with autism. He says he "technically [has] "Autism Level 1" according to the [[Minecraft:wikipedia:DSM-5|DSM-V]], which is the new name for [[Minecraft:wikipedia:Asperger syndrome|Asperger's]]."<ref>{{tweet|TheMogMiner|397753085965402112|@Blingdaddy1 Technically I have "Autism Level 1" according to the DSM-V, which is the new name for Asperger's. Diagnosed in 1998.|November 5, 2013}}</ref>

Holtz is a graduate of [[Minecraft:wikipedia:East Tennessee State University|East Tennessee State University]] in computer science,<ref name="Bat Country" /> who has been involved in the video game industry since 2005.<ref name=panel /> He started his career at [[Minecraft:wikipedia:EA Tiburon|EA Tiburon]] working on [[Minecraft:wikipedia:Superman Returns (video game)|''Superman Returns'']], then later for [[Minecraft:wikipedia:Activision|Activision]] at [[Minecraft:wikipedia:Vicarious Visions|Vicarious Visions]] working on the [[Minecraft:wikipedia:Guitar Hero|''Guitar Hero'']] series.<ref name="Bat Country" /><ref>{{tweet|TheMogMiner|460823023978037249|@PoiPoiChen By contrast, I know way too much about Aerosmith, having worked on Guitar Hero: Aerosmith Wii. :D|April 28, 2014}}</ref>

Holtz is well known for his Minecraft mods, which he posted on the [[Minecraft:Minecraft Forum]]s under the name [https://www.minecraftforum.net/members/UltraMoogleMan UltraMoogleMan].<ref name=panel /><ref>{{tweet|TheMogMiner|398953802227023872|@Mogswamp I've gone as UltraMoogleMan longer than many Minecraft players have been alive, dawg|November 8, 2013}}</ref> His modding led to talks with [[Minecraft:Markus Persson]] about the implications of increasing Minecraft's then world height of 128.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/0/http://notch.tumblr.com/post/7799649091/sharing-an-interesting-email</ref>

On January 29, 2015, Holtz announced on his Twitter page if anyone knew of any game studios in Stockholm that are hiring.<ref>{{tweet|TheMogMiner|560802300848254977|So, anyone know of any game studios in Stockholm that are hiring? :)|January 29, 2015}}</ref> While the tweet did not make it clear whether or not this was the truth or simply a joke, the [https://help.mojang.com/customer/portal/articles/331367-employees employees page] on the Mojang Support website no longer stated him as a game developer.

On February 8, 2015, Mojang confirmed Holtz is no longer an employee,<ref>{{tweet|mojangsupport|564375736660684800|@MushirMickeyJoe This is correct. ^OZ|February 8, 2015}}</ref> but did not release a formal announcement about it.

On April 1, 2015, Holtz announced that he was hired by [[Minecraft:King]] to help develop ''{{w|Candy Crush Soda Saga}}''.<ref>{{tweet|themogminer|583145143986962433|Loving it here at @King_Games on the Candy Crush Soda Saga team! Game on!|March 31, 2015}}</ref> Due to the coincidental timing of the announcement, he confirmed that it was not an April Fools' joke the next day.<ref>{{tweet|themogminer|583530449915531265|You know what the funny thing is, my tweet yesterday actually wasn't an April Fool's joke, but people thought it was. :)|April 2, 2015}}</ref>

== Work on ''Minecraft'' ==
Holtz designed and implemented [[Minecraft:rabbit]]s, although the design was later heavily modified in [[Minecraft:Tiny Takeover]]. He also added the old [[Minecraft:Old Customized|Customized]] world type, which was an adaptation of his mod Wedge.

== Trivia ==
* Holtz's Minecraft skin is a [https://finalfantasywiki.com/wiki/Moogle moogle] from the [[Minecraft:wikipedia:Final Fantasy|''Final Fantasy'']] game series.<ref>{{tweet|TheMogMiner|397921639427756032|@Idkartist3D Final Fantasy moogle|November 5, 2013}}</ref> Holtz says "[He's] been considering making a custom player renderer just for [his] model so [he] can have proper moogle wings, similar to [[Minecraft:Nathan Adams|Nathan]]'s model being upside-down, but [he] just can't seem to find the time."<ref>{{reddit|23ci42|i_play_on_the_same_server_as_themogminer_and_this/cgwegld|Nah, giving ourselves special weapons or diamonds or whatnot wouldn't really be good for the community. I've been considering making a custom player renderer just for my model so I can have proper moogle wings, similar to Nathan's model being upside-down, but I just can't seem to find the time. Plus I'm pretty happy with the existing moogle skin I found.|April 19, 2014}}</ref>
* Holtz has played the trombone.<ref>{{tweet|themogminer|548850051649650688|I played trombone in school from 4th grade through university, and this never fails to bring a tear to my eye|December 27, 2014}}</ref>

== Gallery ==
<gallery>
Ryan Holtz twitter.jpg|Holtz's Twitter avatar
TheMogMiner 1.jpg|Holtz showing his skin
TheMogMiner 2.jpg|Holtz showing his cape
12million-copy.jpg|TheMogMiner with some other developers
</gallery>

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