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Jon Burton
Place of birth: Winchester, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom
Date of birth: 1969-08-27 (age 54)
Company(ies): Traveller's Tales
Role(s): Programmer, Executive, Designer

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Jon Burton is a British video game programmer and designer, most notable for co-founding and currently serving as Director of developer Traveller's Tales. Having accumulated a considerable amount of programming talent through his technically-impressive Sega Mega Drive games, Burton designed and programmed a number of first-party Sonic the Hedgehog games, and currently runs the YouTube channels GameHut[1] and Coding Secrets.[2]

History

Traveller's Tales

Main article: Traveller's Tales.

Jon Burton founded British video game developer Traveller's Tales alongside Andy Ingram in 1989, and personally designed, directed and programmed the majority of the company's games. With the success of their second game, 1993's Puggsy, the company was able to develop for larger properties; notably, 1994's Mickey Mania started a long and fruitful relationship with Disney. Not long after, Traveller's Tales was contracted by Sega to develop two first-party Sonic the Hedgehog titles, Sonic 3D Blast and Sonic R, and has since established a reputation as one of Britain's most consistent and trusted video game developers.

GameHut and Coding Secrets

Aside from his development work, Burton is best known today for his YouTube channel GameHut. Launched on August 30, 2017[1], the channel is a means for him to share interesting development history and explanations of his games' advanced graphical effects. Moreover, his calm demeanor and humble personality has seen the channel experience a significant amount of recent success, and the newfound popularity eventually gave rise to a second channel on June 16, 2020[2], Coding Secrets.

Production history

  • Sonic 3D Blast (Mega Drive; 1996) — Program Design and Implementation
  • Sonic 3D Blast (Mega Drive; 1996) — Programmer
  • Sonic 3D Blast (Mega Drive; 1996) — Project Management
  • Sonic 3D Blast (Saturn; 1997) — Program Design and Implementation
  • Sonic 3D Blast (Saturn; 1997) — Code Conversion
  • Sonic 3D Blast (Saturn; 1997) — Project Management
  • Sonic R (Saturn; 1997) — Program Design & Implementation
  • Sonic R (Saturn; 1997) — Programmed by
  • Sonic R (Saturn; 1997) — Special Effects Programming
  • Sonic R (Saturn; 1997) — Development Director
  • Sonic R (Windows PC; 1998) — Program design and implementation

Interviews

External links

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 https://www.youtube.com/c/GameHut/about
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 https://www.youtube.com/c/CodingSecrets/about
  3. ↑ File:Galahad MD credits.pdf
  4. ↑ File:Galahad MD US Manual.pdf, page 9
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 File:Bram Stoker's Dracula MD credits.pdf
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 File:Puggsy MCD credits.pdf
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 File:Mickey Mania MCD credits.pdf
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 File:Mickey Mania MD credits.pdf
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 File:Toy Story MD credits.pdf
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 File:Sonic 3D Blast MD credits.pdf
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3 File:Sonic R Saturn credits.pdf
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 File:Sonic 3D Blast Saturn credits.pdf
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