- Jonas Kyratzes
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Jonas Kyratzes Born 21 May 1984
Wiesbaden, GermanyNationality Greek, German Occupation Game Designer, Writer Known for Last Rose in a Desert Garden (2000), The Museum of Broken Memories (2006), The Strange and Somewhat Sinister Tale of the House at Desert Bridge (2008) Website http://www.jonas-kyratzes.net Jonas Kyratzes is a video game designer and the author of video game industry related articles.[1]
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Career
Kyratzes' games are known for breaking with convention and being heavily story-driven.[2] Several of his games are thematically interconnected, often by the recurring figure of Urizen (first mentioned in The Great Machine) and other themes related to or inspired by the work of William Blake.
He also has an interest in film, and in January 2009 he wrote and directed a short documentary about the 2008 Greek riots called The Greek Riots: Some Basic Facts.[3]
Jonas was born in Germany to a Greek father and a German mother, and raised in Greece. He has written several articles on video games, often advocating the concept that games are an art form. He is also politically active on the internet, blogging about political issues[4] and co-founding the Wikileaks Stories game-making initiative[5][6][7][8]. He describes his politics as left-wing.[9]
He lives in Frankfurt, Germany with his wife, Verena.
Games
- Last Rose in a Desert Garden: Fatalistic but very short, which takes place in the aftermath of a nuclear war.
- The Infinite Ocean which deals with the concept of existentialism, centered on a sentient computer.
- The Great Machine: A Fragment, an experimental work of interactive fiction about the horrors of war.
- The Museum of Broken Memories, which also deals with themes relating to war, but is made up of a number of interrelated story fragments.[10][11]
- The Strange and Somewhat Sinister Tale of the House at Desert Bridge, a humorous fantasy with melancholic undertones, set in the Lands of Dream.[12][13]
- Phenomenon 32, a post-apocalyptic 2D exploration platformer set in an alternate universe.[14]
- You Shall Know The Truth, a political game about Wikileaks[15]
- Alphaland, a platformer set inside an unfinished (alpha) game.[16][17]
References
- ^ The Escapist : Profiles : Jonas Kyratzes
- ^ For anyone that is familiar with Kyratzes' work, Desert Bridge at once is familiar territory and a departure from the norm. It is familiar in that it has a tendency to break with convention as well as being a game driven by its plot and story JayIsGames
- ^ The Greek Riots: Some Basic Facts at YouTube
- ^ Enemies of Reason | The Greek Situation
- ^ Wikileaks entre en jey - Ecrans (French)
- ^ GameSetWatch - Gnome's Lair Proposes Wikileaks Stories
- ^ Technolog - Coming soon... WikiLeaks: The Game
- ^ Wikileaks Stories
- ^ Neeb, Christian. "Stete Tropfen". GEE, March 2011, Issue 58, p. 80.
- ^ Independent Adventuring: The Museum of Broken Memories
- ^ MobyGames: The Museum of Broken Memories
- ^ JayIsGames Review
- ^ MobyGames: The Strange and Somewhat Sinister Tale of the House at Desert Bridge
- ^ Gnome's Lair: The evils of Phenomenon 32
- ^ Neeb, Christian. "Stete Tropfen". GEE, March 2011, Issue 58, p. 80.
- ^ JayIsGames Review of Alphaland
- ^ Browser Game Pick: Alphaland (Jonas Kyratzes) at IndieGames.com
External links
- Official website
- Jonas Kyratzes at MobyGames
- An interview with Kyratzes at JustAdventure.com
- Kyratzes YouTube account at YouTube.com
Categories:- Living people
- German video game designers
- 1984 births
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