Jonathan Chey

Work History

Looking Glass Studios where I worked on Terra Nova (5 lines of code), Thief, Flight Unlimited 2, Star Trek Voyager (cancelled) & British Open Championship Golf.

Producer & AI coder, Shock 2. Producer & lead designer on Freedom Force. Design consultant on Tribes. Producer, Freedom Force 3rd Reich.

Qualifications

Bachelor of Arts (English), ANU
Graduate Diploma (Computer Science), ANU
Master of Science (Cognitive Science), Melbourne
PhD (Cognitive and Neural Systems), Boston University

Interests

Board games
Australian native plants
Italian motorbikes
18th Century English Rococo chairs

Favourite Games

The Myth series
Magic the Gathering™

Why the Games Industry?

I knew that System Shock was an awesome game but my black and white laptop was too weak to play it. I figured if I got a job at Looking Glass I’d be given a PC capable of running it.