# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-jones-q2747788
# Generated: 2026-08-31T20:28:36.092Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-jones-q2747788"
name: "David Jones"
slug: "david-jones-q2747788"
description: "David Scott Jones is a Scottish video game programmer and entrepreneur who co-founded video game developers DMA Design in 1987, Realtime Worlds in 2002, and Cloudgine in 2012. 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."
tagline: "British game programmer and co-founder of Grand Theft Auto"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/David_Jones_-_2003.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Developers"
  slug: "developers"
profileType:
  name: "Developer"
  slug: "developer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5482740"
birthDate: "1966-03-11"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           54.23
  momentum:             10.30185621974087
  historical:           13.38616666666667
  currentAttention:     46.7479674796748
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 108
sources:
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    title: "戴維·瓊斯 (電子遊戲開發者)"
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    title: "ديفيد جونز (مطور لعبة فيديو)"
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    title: "دەیڤد جۆنز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Jones_(Spieleentwickler)"
    title: "David Jones (Spieleentwickler)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Jones_(video_game_developer)"
    title: "David Jones (video game developer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Jones_(desarrollador_de_videojuegos)"
    title: "David Jones (desarrollador de videojuegos)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "دیوید جونز (توسعه‌دهنده بازی ویدئویی)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Jones_(programmeur)"
    title: "David Jones (programmeur)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Դեյվիդ Ջոնս"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "David Jones (sviluppatore di videogiochi)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "დეივიდ ჯოუნზი"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Jones_(projektant_gier_komputerowych)"
    title: "David Jones (projektant gier komputerowych)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Jones_(desenvolvedor_de_jogos)"
    title: "David Jones (desenvolvedor de jogos)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Джонс, Дэвид (программист)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Jones_(video_oyunu_geli%C5%9Ftiricisi)"
    title: "David Jones (video oyunu geliştiricisi)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2747788"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump