- Jason Cirillo
American Founder and
Creative Director ofRobotube Games , LLC, an Americanvideo game production company. Cirillo worked in theDigital Graphic Design field for several years in both theUnited States andJapan before joining thevideo game industry.Creative Work
Credited with working on the following titles:
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X-Men : Reign of Apocalypse (Graphics consultant.Game Boy Advance )
*Bloktonik (Creator & Director. Mobile, PC,Nintendo DS )
*Zyrx (Creator & Director. Mobile & Online) Zyrx won 4th Prize at the 2006 AGF Mobile Content Contest at theSouth by Southwest Film Festival [http://www.dcitexas.org/mcf/] .
*Bakuhatsu Panic! (Creator & Director. Mobile & Online)
*Duckpin Bowl-O-Rama (Co-Creator. Online)Cirillo also designed and coded the "Froggster Widget" game [http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/games/froggsterwidget.html] , which, as of March 2007, remained in the Top 50 Downloaded Widgets [http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/top50/] on Apple.com [http://www.apple.com] for over 2 years. "Froggster" is a clone of the popular
Konami gameFrogger , but with added features, such as an icy road level, and all-pond and all-car level, and a jumpingpiranha level.Cirillo founded Robotube Games in 1999 from his apartment in
Yokohama, Japan . After moving back to the United States in 2002, he brought the company with him. Robotube Games was largely acquired byHeavybag Media in 2004.In 2007 Jason began teaching a video game production course for the Department of Media Studies and Digital Culture at
Sacred Heart University in Fairfield Connecticut.On September 5th, 2007, his t-shirt design, "Sun of Kabuki" appeared for sale on the popular website, shirt.woot.com, which sold out in one day. Following Sun of Kabuki, his design "Avocado Man" was also sold out in one day on October 16th, 2007. [http://shirt.woot.com] .
External links
* [http://www.robotubegames.com/ Robotube Games]
* [http://www.mobygames.com/developer/sheet/view/developerId,61160/ Jason Cirillo's profile at Moby Games]
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