Jason Jones

Halo 3 Legendary Edition bonus disk, 7 Steps to World Domination

Jason Jones

Jason Jones co-founded the computer game company Bungie Studios in 1991 along with Alexander Seropian. He has worked on Myth, Marathon and Halo. He thought up the name for the space cruiser "Pillar of Autumn". He was also the project lead for Halo: Combat Evolved and Halo 2.

Jason Jones in Easter Eggs

Gravemind

Main article: Half-Naked Guy

On the Halo 2 level Gravemind, in the opening cutscene, Jason Jones can be seen wearing only a pair of gym shorts. To find him, one must start the level on Legendary. After the Gravemind's conversation with Master Chief and the Arbiter finishes, the camera fades in to High Charity. When it focuses on the crowd of Grunts. You can see him among the spectators there.

The Storm/Floodgate

Main article: Missing Person Poster

He appears on a poster found at the end of the Halo 3 level The Storm, and at the beginning of Floodgate.

Halo

Main article: Lonely Soul Easter Egg

He can also be seen when playing on the Halo 3 campaign level Halo, on Co-op, as well as in Theater, but the dark area makes it difficult. During gameplay, find the Terminal. After both players are at the room, look on the opposite side of the Terminal. You will see a large gap and a small section of floor on the other side. This is the place you need to go to see the egg. Have one player stand at the edge and the other on the first's head, and face the gap. Then both jump simultaneously forward. Player 2 should now be on the section of floor, and Player 1 should have died and re-spawned beside him. Then crouch jump on the next. Turn on your flashlight and look to your left, and there he is, standing on a small room with his usual shorts and his hands behind his head.

There are more pieces of floor after the two mentioned, and they are known to hide other secrets.

Trivia

• Jason Jones was in the acknowledgments page in the book Halo: The Fall of Reach.
• 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."
• It has been stated that his most, and least, fond, memory from Halo: Combat Evolved was Burnie's girlfriend almost killing him with a dart gun at 3:00 A.M.
• According to Joseph Staten, Jason has a deep, rich, manly voice.
• He suggested Halo to be called "Red Shift".
• He also wanted the 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 obvious reasons, as stated in the Art of Halo book.
• Joe Staten said that the reason why most of everything you see from the Covenant is purple, was because Jason loves purple.

External links

• Interview - 12/18/01
• Jason Jones at Bungie.net