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| {{Cleanup}} | | The reclusive '''Jason Jones''' co-founded the computer game company [[Bungie Studios]]. Jason Jones founded the Bungie Company in 1991 along with [[Alexander Seropian]]. Jason Jones has worked on the games ''[[Myth]]'', ''[[Marathon]]'' and ''Halo''. It was Jason who thought up the name for the space cruiser "[[Pillar of Autumn]]." Jason was also the project lead of the game [[Halo: Combat Evolved]] and [[Halo 2]]. |
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| [[File:Jasonj.jpg|thumb|250px|Jason Jones in the [[ViDoc]] [[O Brave New World]].]]
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| {{Quote|Jason is actually a lot like a shipboard [[AI]] where, most of the time, it does miraculous work that nobody else can do. And then, the other times he's, you know, crazy.|[[Adrian Perez]]<ref>'''[[Halo 3]] Legendary Edition''', ''[[Seven|7]] Steps to World Domination''</ref>}} | |
| '''Jason Jones''' (born June 1, 1971) is a co-founder of the computer game company [[Bungie]] - along with [[Alexander Seropian]] - in 1991. He has worked on ''[[wikipedia:Myth (series)|Myth]]'', ''[[Marathon]]'' and was also the project lead for ''[[Halo: Combat Evolved]]'' and ''[[Halo 2]]''. He is presently the Chief Creative Officer of Bungie, inc.<ref>[https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2018-06-01-bungie-gets-more-than-usd100-million-investment-from-netease '''gamesindustry.biz''': ''Bungie gets more than $100 million investment from NetEase'']</ref> | |
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| ==Trivia== | | ==Trivia== |
| *He suggested [[Halo universe|''Halo'']] to be called "Red Shift".<ref>'''[[Halo 2]] Collector's Edition''', ''Making of Halo 2 disc''</ref> He also wanted the [[Sangheili|Elites]] to have tails, a suggestion many others also agreed with. However, when the animations of the Elites manning vehicles were in production, the tail was removed due to ''very obvious'' reasons, as stated in [[The Art of Halo: Creating a Virtual World|''The Art of Halo'']]. | | *There is an [[easter egg]] in [[Halo 3]] based off of him, which entails a missing persons poster found in a few levels, such as [[Floodgate]] and [[The Storm]]. |
| *Joe Staten said that the reason why most of everything you see from the Covenant is purple, was because Jason loves purple.<ref>'''[[Halo 3 Legendary Edition]]''' ''- Essentials, Disc Two - Halo 2 Cinematics Commentary''</ref> | | *Another easter egg to mention be would be the [[Lonely Soul Easter Egg]] in [[Halo 2]] and [[Halo 3]]. Jason Jones is in fact the half-naked man. He can be seen on the level "Halo" (Halo 3). |
| *He thought up the name for the space [[cruiser]] {{UNSCShip|Pillar of Autumn}}.<ref name="interview">[http://halo.bungie.net/News/content.aspx?type=topnews&cid=6 '''Bungie.net''': ''Jason Jones Interviewed By You'' (12/18/2001)]</ref>
| | *Jason Jones was in the the acknowledgments page in the book [[Halo: The Fall of Reach]]. |
| *Jason Jones has appeared multiple times as [[Easter egg]]s in the ''Halo'' titles. | | *Jason Jones said: "All the characters are bitmaps, you could only draw trapezoids. When you looked up and down in Marathon – it's actually just distorting the geometry. It's an optical illusion."{{fact}} |
| | | *In the episode 'Brawl' of "Arby and Chief" the are trying to get to this easter egg. |
| ==Sources==
| | *His fondest memory from [[Halo: Combat Evolved]] was Burnie's girlfriend almost killing him with a dart gun at 3:00 A.M. in the mouring. This is also his least fondest memory. |
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| ==See also==
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| *[[Half-naked guy]] | |
| *[[Missing Person Poster]] | |
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| ==External links==
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| *[http://halo.bungie.net/Inside/MeetTheTeam.aspx?Person=jones Jason Jones on Bungie.net]
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| [[Category:Bungie staff]] | | ==External Links== |
| {{DEFAULTSORT:Jones, Jason}} | | *[http://www.bungie.net/News/TopStory.aspx?story=ArchivedStory7 Interview] - 12/18/01 |
| | *[http://www.bungie.net/Inside/MeetTheTeam.aspx?Person=jones Jason Jones at Bungie.net] |
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