Jon Burton
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Jon Burton | |
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Born | Winchester, Hampshire, England |
Occupations |
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Years active | 1989–present |
Known for | Traveller's Tales |
Notable work | Toy Story 2: Buzz Lightyear to the Rescue,
Lego Star Wars, Mickey Mania & Sonic 3D Blast |
Website | ttjontt |
Jon Burton is a British video game designer, director, and programmer. He is the founder of development studio Traveller's Tales and its parent company TT Games.
Burton founded Traveller's Tales in 1989. He 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.[1] He has received five British Academy of Film and Television Arts awards.
Career
Burton founded
Burton announced in 2005 that Traveller's Tales would merge with
In 2017, Burton began uploading videos demonstrating programming tricks and early prototypes of games that he worked on to his YouTube channel, GameHut,[3] and has since created a new channel called Coding Secrets for the same content, in 2020. In October 2017, 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.[4]
In August 2021, Burton co-founded 10:10 Games, a studio developing Funko Fusion, after he left Traveller's Tales in 2019.[5]
Personal life
He currently lives in Malibu, California.[6][non-primary source needed] Burton is a practicing Christian and included an Ichthys as an Easter egg in one of the tracks in Sonic R.[7]
Works
Video games
Year | Game | Role | Notes | ||||
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Director
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Designer
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Programmer | Producer | Writer
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1991 | Leander | No | Yes | No | No | No | |
1993 | Bram Stoker's Dracula | No | No | Yes | No | No | |
Puggsy | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | ||
1994 | Mickey Mania: The Timeless Adventures of Mickey Mouse
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No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | |
1995 | Toy Story | No | Yes | No | No | No | |
1996 | Sonic 3D Blast | No | No | Yes | No | No | |
1997 | Sonic R | No | No | Yes | No | No | |
1998 | Rascal | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | |
A Bug's Life | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | ||
1999 | Toy Story 2: Buzz Lightyear to the Rescue | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | |
2000 | Buzz Lightyear of Star Command | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | |
2001 | Toy Story Racer | No | No | No | Executive | No | |
Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex | Yes | Yes | Yes | Executive | No | ||
2002 | Haven: Call of the King | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | |
2003 | Finding Nemo | No | Yes | No | Executive | No | |
2005 | Lego Star Wars: The Video Game | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | |
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | ||
2006 | Lego Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | |
Bionicle Heroes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | ||
2007 | Transformers: The Game | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | |
2008 | Lego Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | |
Lego Batman: The Videogame | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | ||
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | ||
2009 | Lego Indiana Jones 2: The Adventure Continues | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | |
2010 | Lego Harry Potter: Years 1–4 | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | |
2011 | Lego Star Wars III: The Clone Wars | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | |
Lego Pirates of the Caribbean: The Video Game | No | Yes | No | No | No | ||
Lego Harry Potter: Years 5–7 | No | Yes | No | No | No | ||
2012 | Lego Batman 2: DC Super Heroes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | |
Lego The Lord of the Rings | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | ||
2013 | Lego Marvel Superheroes
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No | Yes | No | No | No | |
2014 | The Lego Movie Videogame | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | |
Lego The Hobbit
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Yes | Yes | No | No | No | ||
Lego Batman 3: Beyond Gotham | No | Yes | No | No | Story | ||
2015 | Lego Ninjago: Shadow of Ronin | Yes | No | No | No | No | |
Lego Dimensions | Yes | Yes | No | No | Story | ||
2016 | Lego Marvel's Avengers | No | Yes | No | No | No | |
2017 | Sonic 3D: Director's Cut | No | No | Yes | No | No | Director's cut |
2024 | Funko Fusion | TBA | No | No | No | No |
Films
Year | Title | Role | Notes | ||
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Director | Producer | Writer | |||
2013 | Lego Batman: The Movie – DC Super Heroes Unite | Yes | Yes | Story | Direct-to-video |
2014 | The Lego Movie | No | Executive | No | |
2015 | Man Down | No | Yes | No | |
2017 | The Lego Batman Movie | No | Co-producer | No | |
2019 | The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part | No | Co-producer | No |
References
- ^ Wallis, Alistair. "Playing Catch Up: Traveller's Tales' Jon Burton". Gamasutra. Retrieved 21 March 2012.
- ^ "Warner Bros. buys TT Games". Eurogamer. 8 November 2007.
- ^ Wales, Matt (3 October 2017). "How one Mega Drive dev cheekily slipped through Sega's certification process". Eurogamer. Retrieved 20 October 2017.
- ^ Wales, Matt (13 October 2017). "Sonic 3D's original developer is creating an unofficial Director's Cut". Eurogamer. Retrieved 20 October 2017.
- ^ Makuch, Eddie (25 April 2023). "Former Lego Devs Reveals Funko Mash-Up Game With Jurassic World, Back To The Future, And More". GameSpot. Retrieved 4 November 2023.
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- ^ DidYouKnowGaming? (28 February 2018), Sonic R's Religious Easter Egg - Did You Know Gaming? Feat. Greg, archived from the original on 15 December 2021, retrieved 12 March 2018