John Cooney (born ),
also known by his pseudonym jmtb02, is an American game developer and former
chief executive officer
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of
Armor Games
Armor Games Inc. is an American video game publisher and free web gaming portal. The website hosts over a thousand HTML5 (and previously Flash) browser games. Based in Irvine, California, the site was founded in 2004 by Daniel McNeely.
Armor ...
. He is best known for his numerous
Flash games
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, many of which feature a blue elephant as the player avatar, including ''
Achievement Unlocked
''Achievement Unlocked'' is an Adobe Flash video game written by John Cooney in four days and published by Armor Games in 2008. The player controls an elephant who moves and jumps around a level with the goal of completing every achievement. S ...
'' and ''
This is the Only Level''.
Life and career
Cooney got into development of Flash games during high school.
While enrolled at
University of California, Davis
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, Cooney kept developing games and founded his own game development company, JMTB02 Studios. The money he earned through his games were enough to pay for his college tuition. In 2007, Cooney joined
Armor Games
Armor Games Inc. is an American video game publisher and free web gaming portal. The website hosts over a thousand HTML5 (and previously Flash) browser games. Based in Irvine, California, the site was founded in 2004 by Daniel McNeely.
Armor ...
as their first employee.
In 2012, he joined
Kongregate
Kongregate is an American web gaming portal and video game publisher. Its website features over 124,000 online games and 30+ mobile games available to the public. The company also publishes games for PC, mobile, and home consoles. It was purchase ...
, where he stayed until rejoining Armor Games in 2019 as the vice-president of business development of Armor Games Studios.
In 2021, Cooney became the CEO of Armor Games. In June 2023, he announced that he would be stepping down as CEO. The previous month, Armor Games announced that they would be publishing ''The Elephant Collection'', a compilation of several of Cooney's Flash games.
Games
* ''
Achievement Unlocked
''Achievement Unlocked'' is an Adobe Flash video game written by John Cooney in four days and published by Armor Games in 2008. The player controls an elephant who moves and jumps around a level with the goal of completing every achievement. S ...
'' (2008)
* ''Achievement Unlocked 2'' (2010)
* ''Achievement Unlocked 3'' (2012)
* ''AngleBeat''
* ''Argent Burst''
* ''Ball Revamped'' (2004)
* ''Ball Revamped 2: Metaphysik'' (2005)
* ''Ball Revamped 3: Andromeda'' (2005)
* ''Ball Revamped 3: Gemini'' (2005)
* ''Ball Revamped 4: Amplitude'' (2006)
* ''Ball Revamped 5: Synergy'' (2007)
* ''Balloon in a Wasteland''
* ''Chuck the Sheep''
* ''Coinbox Hero''
* ''Color Keys''
* ''Compulse''
* ''Console Launch: Second Shipment''
* ''Cooper's Little Adventure''
* ''Corporation Inc.''
* ''Dark Cut''
* ''Dark Cut 2''
* ''Dark Cut 3''
* ''Elements''
* ''Elephant Quest''
* ''Elephant Rave''
* ''Ellipsis''
* ''Epic Combo!''
* ''Epic Combo Redux''
* ''Exit Path'' (2010)
* ''Exit Path 2'' (2011)
* ''Extreme Missile Defense X-treme 3D''
* ''Five Til''
* ''Flock Together''
* ''Four Second Firestorm''
* ''Four Second Frenzy''
* ''Four Second Fury''
* ''Fox Fyre''
* ''Frontier''
* ''Giraffe Attack''
* ''Give Up'' (2013)
* ''Grid16''
* ''Hedgehog Launch 2''
* ''I Hate Traffic''
* ''I Love Traffic''
* ''Knights of Rock''
* ''Light Cut''
* ''Llama Adventure''
* ''LOOT The Game''
* ''Luminara''
* ''Maverick''
* ''Medieval Golf''
* ''Mr. Walter's Grand Excursion''
* ''Obey The Game''
* ''Obsessive Compulse Tournament''
* ''Ocean Explorer''
* ''Parachute Retro''
* ''Parachute Retrospect''
* ''Pocket Change''
* ''Rabbit Wants Cake''
* ''RedEye 1031''
* ''Run Elephant Run''
* ''Run Right''
* ''Scribble''
* ''Scribble 2''
* ''Scribble States''
* ''Sixty''
* ''Soviet Rocket Giraffe Go Go Go!''
* ''Spectrum Genesis''
* ''Spin Doctor''
* ''Squeezed''
* ''Super Mafia Land''
* ''TBA''
* ''TBA Two''
* ''The Next Floor''
* ''
This is the Only Level'' (2009)
* ''This is the Only Level Too''
* ''This is the Only Level 3''
(2012)
* ''Timemu''
* ''Treadmillasaurus Rex''
* ''TwoThree''
* ''Warp Shot''
References
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Browser game developers
American video game developers
1980s births
Living people
American video game businesspeople
American technology chief executives