David Jones (video game developer)
| David Jones | |
|---|---|
 David Jones in 2003 | |
| Born |
1966 (age 49–50) Dundee, Scotland, United Kingdom. |
| Nationality | British |
| Occupation | Video game designer |
| Known for | Lemmings, Grand Theft Auto, Crackdown |
David Jones (born 1966) is a Scottish games programmer and entrepreneur who founded computer game companies DMA Design in 1987 (which became Rockstar North in 2002) and Realtime Worlds in 2002.[1] Jones created Lemmings and Grand Theft Auto,[2] which both spawned many successful sequels. He also created the Crackdown franchise for the Xbox 360 and Xbox One consoles, and the open-ended massively multiplayer online game, APB: All Points Bulletin.[3]
Biography
David Jones' career started with game Menace which he released in 1988. The game sold 15,000 copies and Jones went on to make a second game, Blood Money. With his company DMA Design, Jones created Lemmings, resulting in awards including winning European Game of the Year twice.[4] DMA Design went on to create Grand Theft Auto. In 2012 Jones revealed that much of the controversy surrounding Grand Theft Auto was engineered by their publicist.[5]
In 2002 Jones founded Realtime Worlds who developed Crackdown and APB: All Points Bulletin.[6]
Jones was the keynote speaker for the World Cyber Games in 2004 where he said that he considered mainstream multiplatform gaming to be the next big thing,[7] and for the 2009 Develop Conference in Brighton.[8]
In 2012 David Jones started work on ChronoBlade, a Facebook action-RPG game, with Stieg Hedlund as part of San Francisco-based development team nWay.[9]
In 2012 he co-founded Cloudgine, a games development company focusing on cloud computing.[10]
Works
- Menace (1988)
- Blood Money (1989)
- Lemmings (1991)
- Oh No! More Lemmings (1991)
- Leander (1991)
- Shadow of the Beast (1992)
- Lemmings 2: The Tribes (1993)
- Holiday Lemmings (1993)
- Hired Guns (1993)
- The Lemmings Chronicles (1994)
- Grand Theft Auto (1997)
- Body Harvest (1998)
- Space Station Silicon Valley (1998)
- Tanktics (1999)
- Grand Theft Auto 2 (1999)
- Mobile Forces (2002)
- Crackdown (2007)
- APB: All Points Bulletin (2010)
- Crackdown 3 (2016)
References
- ↑ "Interview: The APB ABC Part 1 | Features". Edge Online. Retrieved 2013-01-12.
- ↑ "David Jones Returns To APB | News". Edge Online. Retrieved 2013-01-12.
- ↑ "News – GTA Creator Gets New Funding". Gamasutra. Retrieved 2013-01-12.
- ↑ "Grand Theft Auto V: Games visionary behind Scotland's biggest cultural export". Daily Record. 15 September 2013. Retrieved 1 December 2013.
- ↑ Maxwell, Ben (22 October 2012). "Grand Theft Auto creators detail Max Clifford’s engineered controversy". Edge. Retrieved 1 June 2015.
- ↑ Welsh, Oli (12 March 2010). "Realtime Worlds' David Jones". Eurogamer. Retrieved 1 December 2013.
- ↑ "GTA Creator David Jones keynotes World Cyber Games 2004 Conference". Gamespot. 7 October 2004. Retrieved 1 December 2013.
- ↑ Alexander, Jem (19 March 2009). "Develop 2009's speaker lineup partially unveiled". Joystiq. Retrieved 1 December 2013.
- ↑ Lahti, Evan (1 August 2013). "Why the creator of GTA and the lead designer of Diablo II are making a Facebook game together". PC Gamer. Retrieved 1 December 2013.
- ↑ "Our Team". Cloudgine. Retrieved 30 June 2015.
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