New Mojang Employee working on MCPE!

Tommaso Checchi is now working on Minecraft Pocket Edition for Mojang, and has made a great start. As retweeted on our Twitter, he has already added the well-known yellow bouncing text on the menu screen, just like the PC and Xbox! Not only that but he has worked hard experimenting with the sun, the moon and stars on the tablet version! You can see the picture of it working below as well as on Twitter. However, they are still not sure if it will be on the next update (0.7.3) or not, as it may lag or slow down the world speed while playing MCPE. Having said that, he is still playing around with it, and we will (as always) keep you updated on the latest!

Anyway, well done Tommaso Checchi, great stuff - keep it up!

Also, those of you hoping for Redstone very soon, you may be disappointed to know that it will not be in 0.7.3 and is unlikely to be in 0.8.0. However, that said, Tomasso Checchi is looking into it and said it "maybe" implemented in an update this year. We will update you more on this when we get more news on it!

@craftking57 uhmm... maybe? Would be nice for sure! But I haven't checked the redstone code, dunno how hard it is
— Tommaso Checchi (@_tomcc) July 28, 2013

The famous PC and Xbox yellow bouncing text on MCPE!

Experiment of the sun, moon and starts - including glowing spider eyes!