The character of Steve, along with the rest of the Minecraft world, is intended to be gender-neutral so as to avoid forcing the player to make decisions about gender. Minecraft' was used for a guest role in Super Meat Boy.
The name Steve was invented by developer Markus 'Notch' Persson as a joke and was often formatted as 'Steve?' prior to being formally adopted as the default name of the avatar. Steve is the default skin of the Player in Minecraft.
