John Cooney (video game developer)

John Cooney (born in 1986 or 1987[1]), also known by his pseudonym jmtb02, is a prolific Sacramento-based game developer best-known for his numerous Flash games, many which feature a blue elephant as the player avatar, especially his metagame send-ups such as Achievement Unlocked and This is the Only Level.[2][3][4][5] He is currently the VP of Business Development at Armor Games Studios.[6]

John Cooney
NationalityAmerican
Other namesjmtb02
OccupationGame designer
Websitewww.jmtb02.com

Life and career

Cooney got into development of Flash games during high school.[7] While enrolled at University of California, Davis, Cooney kept developing games and founded his own game development company, JMTB02 Studios. The money he earned through his games were enough to pay for his college tuition. In 2007, Cooney joined Armor Games as their first employee.[1][8] in 2012, he joined Kongregate, where he stayed until rejoining Armor Games in 2019.[8][9]

Games
  • Dark Cut
  • Dark Cut 2
  • Dark Cut 3
  • Corporation Inc.
  • Exit Path
  • Exit Path 2
  • and more.......

References
  1. Brescini, Megan (7 July 2010). "Little Games Are Big Business at Armor Games". OC Weekly. Archived from the original on 7 July 2010.
  2. Simón, Jaime San (4 September 2011). "Juegos Indie: Metajuegos • Página 2". Eurogamer.es (in Spanish). Retrieved 7 August 2021.
  3. Sohier, Rémy. DES SENSATIONS INTERACTIVES AU SERVICE D’UNE EXPRESSION ARTISTIQUE (PDF). Université Paris 8. pp. 13–14.
  4. Verneau, Loan. "Paralect - An example of transition focused design". ProQuest Dissertations Publishing: 27–28.
  5. Rae Selvig, Dines; Schoenau-Fog, Henrik (2020). "Non-intrusive Measurement of Player Engagement and Emotions - Real-Time Deep Neural Network Analysis of Facial Expressions During Game Play". HCI in Games. Springer International Publishing: 330–349. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-50164-8_24.
  6. "About Us | Armor Games Studios". armorgamesstudios.com.
  7. Bardinelli, J. "In the Flash: Four Second Firestorm". Engadget.
  8. "About". John Cooney.
  9. "John Cooney on LinkedIn". Retrieved 25 July 2021.
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