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David Jones (David Scott Jones) was born on 1 October, 1965 in Dundee, Scotland, is a Scottish video game designer. Discover David Jones's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 58 years old?
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David Scott Jones |
Occupation |
Video game designer |
Age |
58 years old |
Zodiac Sign |
Libra |
Born |
1 October, 1965 |
Birthday |
1 October |
Birthplace |
Dundee, Scotland |
Nationality |
Scotland
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David Jones Height, Weight & Measurements
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He is currently single. He is not dating anyone. We don't have much information about He's past relationship and any previous engaged. According to our Database, He has no children.
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David Jones Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is David Jones worth at the age of 58 years old? David Jones’s income source is mostly from being a successful game designer. He is from Scotland. We have estimated David Jones's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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Timeline
David Scott Jones (born October 1965) is a Scottish video game programmer and entrepreneur who co-founded video game developers DMA Design (now Rockstar North) in 1987, Realtime Worlds in 2002, and Cloudgine in 2012.
Jones created Lemmings and Grand Theft Auto, which both spawned many successful sequels.
He also created the Crackdown franchise for the Xbox 360 and Xbox One consoles, and the open-ended massively multiplayer online game, APB: All Points Bulletin.
His career in the video game industry began in 1987 after he was made redundant from the Timex factory in Dundee, using the severance pay towards an Amiga 1000 computer with which he developed indie game Menace, under the company name DMA Design along with friends Russell Kay, Steve Hammond and Mike Dailly.
Releasing in 1988, the game sold 15,000 copies and earned him £20,000, which he used to buy a car.
DMA Design expanded and went on to make a second game, Blood Money, which Jones saw as a "further development" of the concept used in Menace.
DMA created a third game in 1991, Lemmings, which was commercially and critically successful, resulting in awards including winning European Game of the Year twice.
Over the next two years Lemmings sold over 2 million copies, making Jones, 25 years old at release and married with a child, wealthy and famous.
DMA Design created several more games over the next few years, but Jones spent time on developing an idea for a fighting simulator set in a city; after the release of Syndicate Wars (1996), the company revised the concept to set it in a "living city" and cross it with a driving game, resulting in the successful and controversial Grand Theft Auto, which in turn sparked an entire franchise.
Jones stayed with the company through 1999 and Grand Theft Auto 2 before leaving.
In 2000 Jones founded and led the Dundee studio of Rage Software, Rage Games (Scotland) Limited, where he developed the PC title Mobile Forces.
Jones also co-founded Denki who developed Go Go Beckham for Rage.
Rage ceased trading after bankruptcy.
In 2002 Jones founded Realtime Worlds, who developed Crackdown (2007) and APB: All Points Bulletin (2010).
Jones was the keynote speaker for the World Cyber Games in 2004 where he said that he considered mainstream multiplatform gaming to be the next big thing, and for the 2009 Develop Conference in Brighton.
In 2009, he was chosen by IGN as one of the top 100 game creators of all time.
Despite receiving funding of $100m Realtime Worlds entered liquidation in 2010 after the disappointing critical and commercial reception to APB.
In 2012 Jones revealed that much of the controversy surrounding Grand Theft Auto was engineered by their publicist.
DMA Design was soon after acquired by Gremlin Interactive, starting a chain of purchases that resulted in the studio becoming Rockstar North.
In 2012 David Jones started work on ChronoBlade, a Facebook action-RPG game, with Stieg Hedlund as part of San Francisco-based development team nWay.
In 2012 he co-founded Cloudgine, a games development company focusing on cloud computing.
In the same year Jones founded Reagent Games, serving as Creative Director, to lead the development of Microsoft Xbox One title Crackdown 3.
In December 2017, Cloudgine was acquired by Epic Games; with this, Jones became Director, Cloud Strategy for Epic Games, and resigned from Reagent Games.