Jason Bonthron

Find me

email
jason@bonthron.com
work
linkedin.com/in/bonthron
code
git.sr.ht/~bonthron
résumé
pdf txt
mastodon
mastodon.art/@bonthron
tilde
sdf.org/~bonthron
games
bonthron.itch.io
music
materialization.io

Work

moon
Play my surreal moon game ! (mobile friendly)
1985
World Without End. A geography puzzle from the 80s.(mobile friendly)
R.I.P.
Rest In Peace, my haunted house card game
Read a review
puzzle
A cognitive game to test "Flexibility of Closure", the ability to visualize a pattern and hold it in your mind. (mobile friendly)
traffic
Real-time traffic simulation in HTML5. Try to keep the cars from backing up by changing the traffic light.
boat
Navigate a boat around obstacles, tiny tiny 2D game developed for an education company. (mobile friendly)
golf
1978 text game updated to C# and JavaScript (mobile friendly)
contribution to Coding Horror
music
jason's music and recording ⫽ Materialization.io

Blog

I built a new game: World Without End
I found this puzzle in the back of an old magazine from 1985. It's a geography puzzle. It's not difficult or long.

I've always wanted to typeset my résumé with LaTeX and Knuth's Computer Modern typeface. I'm glad I did. I think it looks great.
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I'm featured in Magpies Magazine with my friend Pat Lambe.

"An Anchored Friendship is a beautiful recording collaboration made by author/artist Pat Lambe and composer Jason Bonthron. This neo-noir short story features the Iowa State Police, a displaced bounty hunter, a broken farmer, and his local cop acquaintance caught in a Mexican stand-off in a gasoline-soaked corn field. Excessive drinking and an overzealous rookie armed with a brand-new 55-caliber sniper rifle aren't helping the situation."

"Like all good noir, this is about so much more than the plot itself. This story is about dark and light, ice and fire, strength and frailty. The finely observed details speak to us of friendship, memory, hopes, regrets, duty, and the way life passes at its own incomprehensible pace following its own incomprehensible rules. Jason Bonthron's perfectly measured score adds a depth of resigned melancholy to the proceedings."

I've left GitHub. I've moved to sourcehut. sourcehut logo

Sr.ht is for hackers. No tracking. No advertising. 100% open source. And the most minimal UI on the planet!

My new recording séance has been released!

In 1848, two teenage girls, Kate and Maggie Fox began to communicate with the dead by means of mysterious knocking sounds. Two years later, they were giving hundreds of séances in New York City and were performing for the most prominent Americans of the antebellum period. Séance is a short piece for an electroacoustic chamber ensemble.
Produced by John Sonntag.

Website re-design. Time for a new coat of paint.

Photos

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