Jason Cirillo
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American Founder and Creative Director of Robotube Games, LLC, an American video game production company. Cirillo worked in the Digital Graphic Design field for several years in both the United States and Japan before joining the video game industry.
[edit] Creative Work
Credited with working on the following titles:
- X-Men: Reign of Apocalypse (Graphics consultant. Game Boy Advance)
- Bloktonik (Creator & Director. Mobile, PC, Nintendo DS)
- Zyrx (Creator & Director. Mobile & Online) Zyrx won 4th Prize at the 2006 AGF Mobile Content Contest at the South by Southwest Film Festival [1].
- Bakuhatsu Panic! (Creator & Director. Mobile & Online)
- Duckpin Bowl-O-Rama (Co-Creator. Online)
Cirillo also designed and coded the "Froggster Widget" game [2], which, as of March 2007, remained in the Top 50 Downloaded Widgets[3] on Apple.com[4] for over 2 years. "Froggster" is a clone of the popular Konami game Frogger, but with added features, such as an icy road level, and all-pond and all-car level, and a jumping piranha level.
Cirillo founded Robotube Games in 1999 from his apartment in Yokohama, Japan. After moving back to the United States in 2002, he brought the company with him. Robotube Games was largely acquired by Heavybag Media in 2004.
In 2007 Jason began teaching a video game production course for the Department of Media Studies and Digital Culture at Sacred Heart University in Fairfield Connecticut.
On September 5th, 2007, his t-shirt design, "Sun of Kabuki" appeared for sale on the popular website, shirt.woot.com.[5].
