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| name = Jon Burton | image = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = | birth_place = Winchester, Hampshire, UK | death_date = | death_place = | nationality = British | other_names = John Burton, Jonathan Burton | occupation = Video game designer, writer, director, programmer | years_active = 1989–present | residence = Los Angeles, California | known_for = Traveller's Tales | notable_works = Puggsy, Lego Star Wars | website = {{URL|http://www.gamehut.com/}} }} Jon Burton is a British video game director, designer, writer, 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 and the Lego Star Wars series.[1] He has received five British Academy of Film and Television Arts awards. CareerBurton founded Traveller's Tales in late 1989 and served as creative director of the games. His first game as designer, Leander, was in 1991; next was Puggsy in 1993. The game enabled Traveller's Tales to expand the company and develop games with bigger companies. In 1994, Traveller's Tales developed Mickey Mania for Disney, initiating a long relationship with the company; Disney later hired them to develop tie-in games for many of its properties. Starting in 1995, Sega contracted the company to develop two Sonic the Hedgehog games, Sonic 3D Blast and Sonic R. He also served as creative director and lead designer of The Wrath of Cortex. Next, he was served as creative director, lead designer, and writer of the action-adventure video game Call of the King, which sequels to the game was planned to be a trilogy, but it was cancelled due to the game's commercial failure. Burton announced in 2005 that Traveller's Tales would merge with Giant Interactive Entertainment to form parent company TT Games. He served as creative director of the Lego Star Wars series based on the toy line of the same name and the film franchise. In 2007, Burton and Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment announced that they had purchased TT Games and Traveller's Tales for an undisclosed amount as part of their expansion into the video game industry.[2] Burton served as creative director for both The Videogame and its sequel, DC Super Heroes. In 2013, Burton wrote the original story for, produced, and directed The Movie – DC Super Heroes Unite based on the Lego Batman 2: DC Super Heroes video game. He also wrote the story for Beyond Gotham alongside David A. Goodman, which was released in November 2014. Also in 2014, Burton worked as an executive producer for the Warner Bros. 2014 film The Lego Movie. He was a producer of the 2015 war thriller film Man Down, starring Shia LaBeouf, Kate Mara, and Gary Oldman. Burton was also an uncredited executive producer for the Warner Bros. 2016 film Storks directed by Nicholas Stoller and Doug Sweetland, starring Andy Samberg, Kelsey Grammer, and Katie Crown. {{citation needed|date=November 2017}} His latest game, Lego Dimensions, was released on 27 September 2015; Burton served as creative director, lead designer, and co-writer on this game. In 2017, Burton began uploading videos demonstrating programming tricks and early prototypes of games that he worked on to his YouTube channel, GameHut.[3] 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] Personal lifeHe currently lives in Malibu, California.[5] Burton is a practicing Christian and included an Ichthys as an Easter egg in one of the tracks in Sonic R.[6] WorksVideo games
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References1. ^{{cite web|last=Wallis|first=Alistair|title=Playing Catch Up: Traveller's Tales' Jon Burton|url=http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=11640|publisher=Gamasutra|accessdate=21 March 2012}} 2. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/warner-bros-buys-tt-games|title=Warner Bros. buys TT Games|publisher=}} 3. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2017-10-03-how-one-mega-drive-dev-cheekily-slipped-through-segas-certification-process|title=How one Mega Drive dev cheekily slipped through Sega's certification process|last=Wales|first=Matt|date=3 October 2017|website=Eurogamer|access-date=20 October 2017}} 4. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2017-10-14-sonic-3ds-original-developer-is-creating-an-unofficial-directors-cut|title=Sonic 3D's original developer is creating an unofficial Director's Cut|last=Wales|first=Matt|date=13 October 2017|website=Eurogamer|access-date=20 October 2017}} 5. ^https://www.facebook.com/jontt/about{{Primary source inline|date=December 2017}} 6. ^{{Citation|last=DidYouKnowGaming?|title=Sonic R’s Religious Easter Egg - Did You Know Gaming? Feat. Greg|date=2018-02-28|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3C2sWE10bxE|accessdate=2018-03-12}} External links
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