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'''Jason Jones''' (born June 1, 1971)<ref>{{cite web|author=Errera, Claude|date=2001-06-02|url=http://halo.bungie.org/news.html?item=2923|title=Happy Birthday, Jason and Peter!|publisher=[[Halo.Bungie.Org]]|accessdate=2010-02-22}}</ref> is an American [[video game developer]] and [[video game programmer|programmer]] who co-founded the video game studio [[Bungie]] with [[Alex Seropian]] in 1991. Jones began programming on [[Apple Inc.|Apple computers]] in high school, assembling a multiplayer game called ''[[Minotaur: The Labyrinths of Crete]]''. While attending the [[University of Chicago]], Jones met Seropian and the two formed a partnership to publish ''Minotaur''.
Following the modest success of ''Minotaur'', Jones programmed Bungie's next game, ''[[Pathways Into Darkness]]'', and worked on code, level design and story development for Bungie's ''[[Marathon Trilogy|Marathon]]'' and ''[[Myth (series)|Myth]]'' series. For Bungie's next projects, ''[[Halo: Combat Evolved]]'' and ''[[Halo 2]]'', Jones took on a more managerial role as project lead. He served as director on the 2014 video game ''[[Destiny (video game)|Destiny]]''.<ref>{{
==Early life==
Jones became interested in programming in high school, and learned [[Applesoft BASIC]] and [[Assembly language|6502 Assembly]] on an [[Apple II series]] computer. When Apple released its [[Macintosh]] line, Jones's family purchased a [[Macintosh 128K]], but Jones never programmed much for it. After high school Jones got a job programming for a [[computer-aided design]] company on PCs, before going to college the next year. In his off time Jones said that all he ever did on the Apple II was write games, "and it seemed logical to continue that on the Mac," he said. "The first thing I did on the Mac was to port a modem game I'd written called ''Minotaur'' from 6502 Assembly on the Apple II into MPW C on the Mac. I was still finishing that when I came to college. By that time, I knew I wanted to write games."<ref name="img-93 interview">{{cite magazine|
==Career==
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