Big news for me: I’m taking a break from freelancing and have accepted a full-time job at Autodesk on the Shotgun team! This job is basically a corporate-sponsored version of the best parts of ...
https://www.jonjones.com/2017/05/24/big-news-i-now-work-for-autodesk/
Hi, everybody! My GDC 2017 talk, How to Cut the Tether and Work from Anywhere, is now online for viewing. Here’s the synopsis: It’s 2017, and it’s increasingly feasible for game teams to be...
https://www.jonjones.com/2017/03/23/my-gdc-2017-talk-is-online/
Hello, folks! I’m incredibly proud to announce that my first book, How I Escaped Evangelical Hell, is now for sale on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and will soon be available on digital platforms a...
https://www.jonjones.com/2017/01/04/how-i-escaped-evangelical-hell/
Hi all! Chris Holden and I did another episode of the CrunchCast, a video game artist podcast. In this episode we talk about virtual reality projects we’ve been working on together, game dev in...
https://www.jonjones.com/2016/10/27/crunchcast-59-vr-game-dev-and-my-new-book/
Saw a post on Twitter today about a representative for Beck trying to get an artist’s work for free. I screencapped it and broke down and explained the sleazy language. I break down and explain...
https://www.jonjones.com/2016/06/28/how-to-see-through-work-for-me-for-free-language/
Here’s one of my favorite little productivity tricks! Did you know you can create a bookmark that immediately creates a new Google document, spreadsheet, or presentation? Keep it in your Bookma...
https://www.jonjones.com/2016/05/26/one-click-to-create-new-google-doc-spreadsheet-or-presentation/
Hi all! I’ve just updated and published new slides for my From Full-Time to Freelance: The Ten Commandments of Contracting talk. Ever wondered what life would be like if you quit your full-time...
Here’s a presentation I recently gave to the Center for Games and Playable Media at UC Santa Cruz master’s program students. If you manage remote workers and offsite teams, here are battle-te...
UPDATED 2016-05-05! I originally presented this as the keynote speech at Gameacon 2015, and I’ve since presented it at the Albany IGDA and updated the content and the slides significantly. This...
https://www.jonjones.com/2016/05/05/make-your-own-way-the-rise-of-indie-content-developers/
Hi, everybody! I’ve just added the Art Outsourcing Knowledge Base to the site. This is a categorized, organized collection of the last 11 years’ worth of art outsourcing and production manage...
https://www.jonjones.com/2016/04/22/art-outsourcing-knowledge-base-updated-categories-and-a-book/