Jon Knoles

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Jon graduated from The Art Institute of Seattle in 1989, soon finding work in the game industry at Taito Software Inc. as an artist on Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: The Action Game (NES), which Taito was developing for George Lucas' game company, then known as Lucasfilm Games.

In 1990, Lucasfilm Games hired Jon as an artist to join their console game group located on Skywalker Ranch in Marin County, CA. The group outgrew the ranch and moved to facilities in nearby San Rafael to join the rest of what became LucasArts Entertainment Company.

Jon spent the next 14 years with LucasArts, shipping over 20 titles on PC and consoles in roles ranging from Artist/Animator to Project Leader and Director. Highlights include the Super Star Wars trilogy for SNES, the X-Wing and TIE Fighter series (PC), Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire and Star Wars: Episode I - Racer (N64, PC), Star Wars: Bounty Hunter (PS2, NCG) and Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (PS2, Xbox).

From 2004 to 2008, Jon was Creative Director at Sandblast Games, a THQ studio in Kirkland, Washington (formerly known as Cranky Pants Games), where he worked on Evil Dead: Regeneration (PS2, XBox) and Destroy All Humans! Path of the Furon (PS3, XBox 360).

Currently, Jon is Design Director at Nihilistic Software in Novato, California.

Also Known As

• John Knoles

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Games Credited

Evil Dead: Regeneration (2005), THQ Inc.
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005), LucasArts
Star Wars: Republic Commando (2005), Electronic Arts K.K.
Star Wars: Battlefront (2004), LucasArts
Indiana Jones and the Emperor's Tomb (2003), LucasArts
Star Wars: Bounty Hunter (2002), LucasArts
Star Wars: Racer Revenge (2002), LucasArts
Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2002), LucasArts
Star Wars: Rogue Squadron II - Rogue Leader (2001), LucasArts Entertainment Company LLC
Escape from Monkey Island (2000), LucasArts Entertainment Company LLC
Star Wars: Episode I - Racer (1999), LucasArts Entertainment Company LLC
Star Wars: Episode I - The Gungan Frontier (1999), Lucas Learning Ltd.
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999), LucasArts Entertainment Company LLC
Outlaws (1997), LucasArts Entertainment Company LLC
Star Wars: Jedi Knight - Dark Forces II (1997), LucasArts Entertainment Company LLC
Star Wars: Masters of Teräs Käsi (1997), LucasArts Entertainment Company LLC
NeoHunter (1996), Virgin Interactive Entertainment, Inc.
Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire (1996), Nintendo of America Inc.
Full Throttle (1995), Softgold Computerspiele GmbH
Star Wars: Dark Forces (1995), Softgold Computerspiele GmbH
Star Wars: Rebel Assault II - The Hidden Empire (1995), LucasArts Entertainment Company LLC
Star Wars: TIE Fighter (Collector's CD-ROM) (1995), LucasArts Entertainment Company LLC
Indiana Jones' Greatest Adventures (1994), JVC Musical Industries, Inc.
Star Wars: TIE Fighter (1994), Softgold Computerspiele GmbH
Star Wars: TIE Fighter - Defender of the Empire (1994), LucasArts
Star Wars: X-Wing (Collector's CD-ROM) (1994), LucasArts Entertainment Company LLC
Super Star Wars: Return of the Jedi (1994), JVC Musical Industries, Inc.
Star Wars: Rebel Assault (1993), Softgold Computerspiele GmbH
Star Wars: X-Wing (1993), LucasArts Entertainment Company LLC
Star Wars: X-Wing - B-Wing (1993), LucasArts Entertainment Company LLC
Star Wars: X-Wing - Imperial Pursuit (1993), LucasArts
Super Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (1993), JVC Musical Industries, Inc.
Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (1992), Ubi Soft Entertainment Software
Super Star Wars (1992), JVC Musical Industries, Inc.
Faceball 2000 (1991), Bullet-Proof Software, Inc.
Star Wars (1991), JVC Musical Industries, Inc.