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Jon Burton
Place of birth: Winchester, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom
Date of birth: 1969-08-27 (age 55)
Company(ies): Traveller's Tales
Role(s): Programmer, Executive, Designer, Producer

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Jon Burton is a British video game programmer, designer, and producer, most notable for founding and currently serving as Director of developer Traveller's Tales. Having accumulated a considerable amount of programming talent through his technically-impressive Sega Mega Drive games, Burton designed and programmed a number of first-party Sonic the Hedgehog games, and currently runs the YouTube channels GameHut[1] and Coding Secrets.[2]

History

Traveller's Tales

GameHut and Coding Secrets

Burton is best known today for his YouTube channel GameHut. Launched on August 30, 2017[1], the channel is a means for him to share interesting development history and explanations of his games' advanced graphical effects. Moreover, his calm demeanor and charming personality has seen the channel experience a significant amount of recent success, and the newfound popularity eventually gave rise to a second channel on June 16, 2020[2], Coding Secrets.

Production history

Interviews

External links

References