Name Jon Burton | Role Video Game Designer | |
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Movies Lego Batman: The Movie – DC Super Heroes Unite, Man Down Awards BAFTA Games Award for Best Family and Social Game, BAFTA Games Award for Gameplay Nominations BAFTA Games Award for British Game, BAFTA Games Award for Action & Adventure Similar People Christopher Corey Smith, Dito Montiel, Charlie Schlatter, Travis Willingham, Brian Bloom | ||
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Jonathan Burton is a British video game director, designer, writer, and executive. He is the founder of development studio Traveller's Tales and its parent company TT Games.
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Burton founded Traveller's Tales in 1989. He worked as a designer on Puggsy and the Lego Star Wars series. He has received five British Academy of Film and Television Arts awards.
Biography
Burton 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: Flickies' Island and Sonic R. He also served as creative director and lead designer of Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex. Next he was served as creative director, lead designer, and writer of the action-adventure video game Haven: Call of the King, which sequels to the game was planned to be trilogy, but it was cancelled due to the game's commercial failure.
Burton announced that Traveller's Tales will join parent company TT Games and co-developer TT Fusion and animation studios TT Animation in 2005, which he was served as creative director of the Lego Star Wars series based on toy line of same name and 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. In 2013, he wrote the original story for, and produced and directed Lego Batman: The Movie – DC Super Heroes Unite from based on 2012 Lego action-adventure video game Lego Batman 2: DC Super Heroes, which is the sequel to Lego Batman: The Videogame, who also served as creative director of both games and he also wrote with David A. Goodman in third game Lego Batman 3: Beyond Gotham was released on November 2014. In 2014, he is the executive producer for Warner Bros. 2014 film The Lego Movie. He was also served as producer of 2015 war thriller film Man Down starring Shia LaBeouf, Kate Mara, and Gary Oldman. Burton was only uncredited role as executive producer of Warner Bros. 2016 film Storks directed by Nicholas Stoller and Doug Sweetland, starring Andy Samberg, Kelsey Grammer, and Katie Crown. In 2015, his latest game Lego Dimensions was released on September 2015, who served as creative director, lead designer, and co-writer of game. In 2017, he was a co-producer of Warner Bros. 2017 first two spin-off of The Lego Movie films The Lego Batman Movie and The Lego Ninjago Movie.
He currently lives in Malibu