David Jones (video game developer)

David Jones
David Jones in 2003
Born	October 1965 (age 51) Dundee, Scotland, United Kingdom
Nationality	British
Occupation	Video game designer
Known for	Lemmings, Grand Theft Auto, Crackdown

David Scott Jones (born October 1965) is a Scottish games programmer and entrepreneur who founded computer game companies DMA Design in 1987 which became Rockstar North in 2002) and Realtime Worlds in 2002. 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.

David Jones' career started with game Menace which he released in 1988. The game sold 15,000 copies and Jones went on to make a second game, Blood Money. With his company DMA Design, Jones created Lemmings, resulting in awards including winning European Game of the Year twice. DMA Design went on to create Grand Theft Auto. In 2012 Jones revealed that much of the controversy surrounding Grand Theft Auto was engineered by their publicist.

In 2002 Jones founded Realtime Worlds who developed Crackdown and APB: All Points Bulletin.

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 2012 David Jones started work on ChronoBlade, a Facebook action-RPG game, with Stieg Hedlund as part of San Francisco-based development team nWay.