# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jason-rohrer
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:13:53.466Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jason-rohrer"
name: "Jason Rohrer"
slug: "jason-rohrer"
description: "Jason Rohrer is an American computer programmer, writer, musician, and game designer. He publishes most of his software into the public domain and charges for versions of his games distributed on commercial platforms like the iPhone appstore or Steam. He is a graduate of Cornell University. From 2004 until 2011 he practiced simple living, stating in 2009 that his family of four had an annual budget of less than $14,500. They have since relocated from Las Cruces, New Mexico to Davis, California. In 2005 Jason Rohrer worked on a local currency, called North Country Notes (NCN), for Potsdam, New York. In 2016 Rohrer became the first videogame artist to have a solo retrospective in an art museum. His exhibition, The Game Worlds of Jason Rohrer, was on view at The Davis Museum at Wellesley College until June 2016."
tagline: "American video game designer (born 1977)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jason_Rohrer_(2011).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1977-11-14"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           58.17
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.697302666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
totalFollowers: 5470
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm7157922/"
    handle:    "nm7157922"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://hcsoftware.sourceforge.net/jason-rohrer/"
  - platform:  "YOUTUBE"
    url:       "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoLwHKH8liw2WseoDBel2LQ"
    handle:    "@jcr13"
    followers: 5470
sources:
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Rohrer"
    title: "Jason Rohrer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Rohrer"
    title: "Jason Rohrer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Rohrer"
    title: "Jason Rohrer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Rohrer"
    title: "Jason Rohrer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Rohrer"
    title: "Jason Rohrer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q92678"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/101027"
    title: "Jason Rohrer"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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