My speech got plugged in the Daily Texan!
Whoa! My mini-speech on free agency being the future got plugged in the Daily Texans’ coverage of TACC’s Future of Video Games event! Conference exhibits ‘future of video games,’ industry Wow. :D
FINALLY! jonjones.com is MINE!
I’m so excited I could burst! After eleven years of waiting and constant monitoring, http://www.jonjones.com is finally MINE!!! I can’t even believe I’m typing this! I haz a happy. :D
Comments fixed!
Just got a friendly email from “Charlie” informing me that the comments page on my blog was rather busted. ’tis fixed now. Thanks, Charlie!
Initial impressions of Google+
Howdy! I got an invite to Google’s new social network, Google+. After a few hours of dinking around with it and seeing how it differs from Facebook, I wanted to do a writeup giving my impressions of it. Now, most blogs and websites are going to be focusing on the larger features, so I’ll try [...]
Article: Extrasensory, Extravagant, Exhausting – E3!
Last year I wrote an article for GameSauce Magazine on E3, with the intent of essentially nutshelling what it is and what it means to the un- or partially-initiated. Well, I didn’t realize it had been published online until now! You can check it out here: Extrasensory, Extravagant, Exhausting by Jon Jones (pages 68 through [...]
Long overdue update. I’m a free agent again!
Hi all! It’s been quite awhile since I’ve posted regularly. Life has been interesting for the past several months. I broke up with my fiancee and started my life anew, I met a new girl that’s perfect for me, I put my contracting on hold to go join Vigil Games, had, uh, an interesting few [...]
I’m an Art Outsourcing Development Manager at Vigil Games!
Hi everybody! Long time no post. I’ve been a busy boy. So, I spent a year running my own company, smArtist, contracting myself out as an art outsourcing manager as well as running a team of 2D and 3D artists. I worked on a lot of cool titles (including a Magic: The Gathering MMO, two [...]
20 Years of Photoshop!
Photoshop has been around for 20 years now, and I found a really awesome timeline image showing the development of Photoshop over time, which key features were added in which versions, as well as a visual evolution of the Photoshop toolbox. Check it out!
100+ Resources for Video Game Professionals
Hey, neat! I was featured on a list of 100+ Resources for Video Game Professionals. This looks to be a pretty solid list full of useful sites and really good people. I’m pretty flattered to be included in a list full of this much awesome!
I’m speaking at Casual Connect Europe in Hamburg Feb 10 – 12!
I’ve been invited to run a panel and speak at Casual Connect Europe in Hamburg, Germany Feb 10-12! The subject is managing external teams and outsourcing, and I’ve got some stellar panelists lined up to discuss it all with. If you’re a game developer and you deal with art production and outsourcing, come on by [...]
Super-useful Firefox extension – App Tabs
Hello, world! I recent found a Firefox extension that’s helped me enormously in sorting out my tabs and keeping track of my most important ones. I would like to introduce you to App Tabs. In a nutshell, this lets you turn a tab into a smaller, space-saving semi-permanent tab for tabs you always have open. [...]
FRAUDS! Defriend Grace Spander and Susan Alorin on Facebook.
They appear to be recruiters creating fake Facebook profiles posing as attractive, single women interested in men, and adding people from the game industry. The best guess so far is that they’re mining game developers’ profiles for information to take advantage of for the purposes of selling to game companies and for recruiting. Myself and [...]