Jonas Eneroth (born in Gothenburg, Sweden) is a

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and

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. His work spans several top 100 video games, critically acclaimed titles such as ''

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'', ''

Hitman Contract killing is a form of murder or assassination in which one party hires another party to kill a targeted person or persons. It involves an illegal agreement which includes some form of payment, monetary or otherwise. Either party may b ...

'', ''

Deus Ex ''Deus Ex'' is a series of role-playing video games, set during the mid 21st century. Focusing on the conflict between secretive factions who wish to control the world by proxy, and the effects of transhumanistic attitudes and technologies in a ...

'', ''

Thief Theft is the act of taking another person's property or services without that person's permission or consent with the intent to deprive the rightful owner of it. The word ''theft'' is also used as a synonym or informal shorthand term for some ...

'', '' Project IGI'' and ''

TimeSplitters ''TimeSplitters'' is a series of first-person shooter video games developed by Free Radical Design. The games are often considered spiritual successors to '' GoldenEye 007'' and ''Perfect Dark'', due to overlapping elements in gameplay, design, ...

''.IGN Staff
"Hitman: Codename 47 Interview"
''IGN'', November 15, 1999, accessed January 16, 2011.

Early life

Eneroth graduated

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with degrees in Finance and Computer Science. Although starting out in

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, his long term hobby as a games programmer kept Jonas active in both the growing

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community and early on-line game development. While at university he created a number of game modifications and level packs that would later bring him to the attention of

Bungie Bungie, Inc. is an American video game company based in Bellevue, Washington. It is a studio owned by Sony Interactive Entertainment. The company was established in May 1991 by Alex Seropian, who later brought in programmer Jason Jones afte ...

and a start as a

Video games

Eneroth's earliest commercial work in the

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began in Chicago. Initially working on ''

'' in 1995 at ''

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'' creator

. He worked initially as a

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but focused increasingly on more production and commercial aspects of game development. He would provide community and tools support for the growing map making community around Bungie's games, being "Bungie's very own flameproof guy-on-the-front-line." Prior to Bungie's acquisition by Microsoft, Eneroth moved to

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to work with ''

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'' publisher

Eidos Interactive Square Enix Limited (formerly Domark Limited and Eidos Interactive Limited) is a British subsidiary of the Japanese video game company Square Enix, acting as their European publishing arm. The company formerly owned ''Tomb Raider'', which was in ...

as their first

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.Moby Games
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June 2010, accessed January 15, 2011. At Eidos he would oversee production of critically acclaimed titles such as ''

'', ''

Legacy of Kain ''Legacy of Kain'' is a series of dark fantasy action-adventure game, action-adventure video games primarily developed by Crystal Dynamics and formerly published by Eidos Interactive, then Square Enix Europe after 2009. The first title, ''Blood ...

'', ''

'', '' Project IGI'', ''

'' and ''

Fear Effect ''Fear Effect'' is an action-adventure video game developed by Kronos Digital Entertainment and published by Eidos Interactive for the PlayStation. A prequel was released one year later entitled '' Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix''. A remake, ''Fear Ef ...

''. Most notably, he helped originate the first Hitman project which in turn helped

IO Interactive IO Interactive A/S (IOI) is a Danish video game developer based in Copenhagen, best known for creating and developing the ''Hitman'' and ''Kane and Lynch'' franchises. IO Interactive's most recent game is '' Hitman 3'', which was released in Ja ...

, then

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, establish themselves as a studio. IO Interactive would later be acquired by Eidos. Eneroth co-founded Wired Realms, a

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and

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focused

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for mobile and console gaming. While serving as

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he also took on management of the company's studio locations in London and San Francisco. After the sale of the studio he took on the role of President of the mobile and handheld studio within the

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group. The studio worked extensively with

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and Qualcomm on 3D applications for the then new generation of accelerated mobile devices. In 2007, he re-joined

at its

studio in Denmark as development director to oversee and restructure production of Hitman: Absolution during Eidos' transition and sale to

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. After the acquisition, he left the studio to return to the growing social, mobile and

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games space.

Industry

Former President, London chapter of the

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. Contributor to "Game Design: Theory and Practice" () a book on game design by Richard Rouse III, published by Wordware Publishing in 2002/2005. Speaker and advisory board at X-Summit 2011, Ontario, Canada. Board member, Pixel Pandemic and Executive Producer, Zombie Pandemic. Managing director and board member of ProCloud Media Invest AB, Malmö, Sweden Nordic Games

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Eneroth, Jonas Living people Video game producers Swedish video game designers Bungie Georgetown University alumni Year of birth missing (living people)

Early life

Video games

Industry

See also

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