Jon Burton is a British video game designer, director, and programmer.
10 Facts About Jon Burton
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Jon Burton is the founder of development studio Traveller's Tales and its parent company TT Games.
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Jon Burton worked as a designer on Puggsy, Mickey Mania, Sonic 3D Blast, the Lego Star Wars series, Toy Story 2: Buzz Lightyear to the Rescue, and A Bug's Life and has served as programmer for many of their early games.
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Jon Burton announced in 2005 that Traveller's Tales would merge with Giant Interactive Entertainment to form parent company TT Games.
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Jon Burton served as creative director of the Lego Star Wars series based on the toy line of the same name and the film franchise.
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Jon Burton served as creative director for both Lego Batman: The Videogame and its sequel, Lego Batman 2: DC Super Heroes.
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Jon Burton wrote the story for Lego Batman 3: Beyond Gotham alongside David A Goodman, which was released in November 2014.
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Also, Jon Burton worked as an executive producer for the Warner Bros.
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In 2017, Jon Burton began uploading videos demonstrating programming tricks and early prototypes of games that he worked on to his YouTube channel, GameHut, and has since created a new channel called Coding Secrets for the same content, in 2020.
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In October 2017, Jon Burton announced that he would be creating an unofficial director's cut of the Sega Genesis version of Sonic 3D Blast, which was released in December 2017.