Chris Jones (Access Software)
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Chris Jones | |
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Born | Utah, U.S. | 4 March 1955
Occupation(s) | Video game designer, video game producer, actor, writer, businessman |
Notable credit | Tex Murphy |
Christopher Jones (born March 4, 1955) is a
CEO, finance professional, and actor. He is best known for a series of interactive movies in which he stars as Tex Murphy, a private investigator who lives in San Francisco
in the middle of the 21st century.
Career
Jones was a founding member of Access Software, along with Bruce Carver and his brother Roger Carver, and remained its CFO until it was sold to Microsoft in 1999.
At Access, Jones served as a finance executive. As the company's output turned toward more story-driven titles, he became more involved in writing, design, and production. He designed and wrote the
Links
golf franchise.
Jones is best recognized by many gamers for the creation and portrayal of
Michael York, Henry Darrow, and June Lockhart
.
After Access was re-christened
Indie Built and sold to Take-Two Interactive
, he was the company's Chief Financial Officer until its dissolution in 2006.
Following the dissolution of Indie Built, the company's golf division was spun off into a new company, TruGolf, focusing on high-end golf simulators using real clubs. Jones serves as Finance Executive for TruGolf and, in 2007, founded
Three Cards to Dead Time
(2010), Murder Island: Secret of Tantalus (2011), Escape from Thunder Island (2011), and Rita James and the Race to Shangri La (2012).