Jonathan Ackley

Jonathan Ackley is an American computer game designer, writer, and programmer. He is best known for being the co-project leader on The Curse of Monkey Island, alongside Larry Ahern.[1]

Jonathan Ackley
NationalityAmerican
OccupationGame designer, writer, programmer

Career

Jonathan Ackley began his career as a programmer at LucasArts on Day of the Tentacle in 1993.[2] He was co-project leader on The Curse of Monkey Island in 1997.[3]

He worked as an associate game designer for Rocket Science Games on Cadillacs and Dinosaurs: The Second Cataclysm in 1994. While there, he was also a voice actor in their game Loadstar: The Legend of Tully Bodine, in the role of Scorpion.

After leaving LucasArts, he has been working for Walt Disney Imagineering creating interactive entertainment for their amusement parks. In this function, he co-designed Walt Disney World's Sorcerers of the Magic Kingdom with his former Curse of Monkey Island co-lead, Larry Ahern, in 2012.[4]

Games
gollark: My IDE uses 4 but everything else is on 8 for some reason?
gollark: Either works fine.
gollark: Mixing normal/horizontal and vertical tabs is even worse.
gollark: PotatOS is developed with tabs for technical reasons, but most of my projects use spaces.
gollark: They are wrong, then.

References
  1. "Ten Years Ago: LucasArts' Monkey Island Duo". Kotaku. Archived from the original on January 27, 2013. Retrieved July 11, 2012.
  2. "LucasArts' Secret History: The Curse of Monkey Island: Captains' Logs: Ackley, Jordan, and Ahern". The International House of Mojo. Retrieved July 11, 2012.
  3. "Mike Levine & Larry Ahern". Adventure Gamers. Retrieved July 11, 2012.
  4. "Jonathan Ackley ensures my future children get lost at Disney World (UPDATE: Ahern shares culpability!)". The International House of Mojo. Retrieved July 11, 2012.
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