Minecraft:Tommaso Checchi

Template:Infobox person Tommaso Checchi (/ˈkɛkˌki/ KEHk-kee) is a former member of the Minecraft Redmond team. Initially, Tommaso wanted to be an artist, but decided to learn programming since he "couldn't wait for people to program for him". Setting his sights on making games, he started with multimedia fusion game makers and later learned C++.<ref>Template:Ytl</ref>

Before working on Minecraft, Tommaso was a programmer on Cobalt's game engine. Minecraft:Jeb acknowledges him as being good at working on C++ and graphics/rendering.<ref>Template:Ytl</ref>

He formerly worked for the team of development for Minecraft Minecraft:Bedrock Edition.<ref>Template:Tweet</ref> He also stated that while Johan was working on the "hard stuff", such as Minecraft:Realms, he would work on the "missing & easy things",<ref name=easystuff>Template:Tweet</ref> such as Minecraft:splash text to the main menu in Pocket Edition.<ref>Template:Tweet</ref> He also worked on the game's graphics, such as adding improvements to the Minecraft:sky, glowing Minecraft:spider eyes, updated Minecraft:chest model,<ref>Template:Tweet</ref> Minecraft:zombies and Minecraft:skeletons lighting on fire under Minecraft:sunlight,<ref>Template:Tweet</ref> shadows and mipmaps.<ref>Template:Tweet</ref><ref>Template:Reddit</ref> In February of 2017, he transferred from the Mojang office and moved to Seattle to continue work on Template:El in the Minecraft Redmond office.<ref>Template:Tweet</ref><ref>Template:Tweet</ref>

On June 18, 2022, Tommaso tweeted that he had left the Minecraft Redmond team in 2021.<ref>Template:Tweet</ref>

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• Tommaso's Twitter avatar until 2016
  Tommaso's Twitter avatar until 2016
• Tommaso's current Twitter avatar
  Tommaso's current Twitter avatar
• Tommaso's official Mojang avatar from 2016–present
  Tommaso's official Mojang avatar from 2016–present
• Tommaso's Twitter banner
  Tommaso's Twitter banner