Jon Annal

Jon Annal is a senior game artist at Nitrome.

History

Jon Annal was the third member to join the team on May 20, 2005 and has been involved in the design and development of many Flash games for Nitrome. Prior to joining Nitrome, he worked as a multimedia designer for digital agency Preloaded and holds a BA (Hons) in Visual Communications from Leeds University.

Art style

Jon Annal has very similar artwork to Mat Annal as Jon has cute art style and simple designs as seen in games such as Chisel and Canopy.

Other work

The Spacescape Folder design

Jon Annal previously worked for a company called "Avery", where he was presumably a graphic designer. One of his most well known work is an image called "Spacescape", which was erroneously interpreted as an unreleased Nitrome game. This claim was first documented on the Nitrome Wiki, before it was documented on other website and accepted by many fans as an unreleased Nitrome game, despite the description for the art contradicting the claim that it was an unreleased game.

Games

Jon Annal has been credited in a total of 49 Nitrome games.

No.	Game	Release date	Role(s)
1	Hot Air	6 December 2005	Artwork
2	Sandman	17 February 2006	Design
3	Chick Flick	6 April 2006	Design
4	Roly Poly	13 June 2006	Testers
5	Feed Me	31 July 2006	Testing
6	Tanked Up	28 September 2006	Testing
7	Scribble	14 November 2006	Design
8	Skywire	29 March 2007	Testing
9	Hot Air 2	16 July 2007	Artwork
10	Toxic	8 August 2007	Additional level design
11	Twang	22 November 2007	Artwork
12	Magneboy	8 April 2008	Artwork
13	Cheese Dreams	10 April 2008	Artwork
14	Knuckleheads	20 May 2008	Artwork
15	Small Fry	30 June 2008	Artwork
16	Mutiny	8 July 2008	Artwork
17	Numbskull	27 October 2008	Artwork
18	Flipside	14 November 2008	Artwork
19	Toxic 2	25 November 2008	Level design
20	Frost Bite 2	17 December 2008	Level design
21	Mirror Image	13 February 2009	Design
22	Icebreaker Red Clan	18 March 2009	Additional level design
23	Powerup	22 April 2009	Design
24	Cosmic Cannon	17 May 2009	Artwork
25	Castle Corp	25 June 2009	Artwork
26	Rockitty	20 August 2009	Artwork
27	B.C.Bow Contest	5 November 2009	Artwork
28	Avalanche	22 December 2009	Design
29	Chisel	29 April 2010	Artwork
30	Squawk	29 September 2010	Design
31	Bad Ice-Cream	10 December 2010	Art
32	Rush	23 December 2010	Art
33	Chisel 2	16 March 2011	Artwork
34	Canopy	19 August 2011	Artwork
35	Mega Mash	30 September 2011	Level design
36	Lockehorn	15 December 2011	Artwork
37	Bad Ice-Cream 2	21 December 2012	Legacy art
38	Icebreaker: A Viking Voyage	20 June 2013	Level design Producers Sound design Story
39	Cheese Dreams New Moon	5 December 2013	Artwork
40	Ditto	26 March 2014	Level design
41	Gunbrick (mobile)	7 January 2015	Producers Sound design
42	Green Ninja	10 June 2015	Art
43	Rust Bucket	16 December 2015	Artwork
44	Leap Day	11 May 2016	Level design Producers
45	In The Dog House (mobile)	7 June 2018	COO
46	Bomb Chicken	12 July 2018	Level design Producers Sound design
47	Spicy Piggy	13 February 2019	Special thanks
48	Gunbrick: Reloaded	9 April 2020	Producers Sound design
49	Shovel Knight Dig	23 September 2022	Team Nitrome

Voice work

• Icebreaker: A Viking Voyage - Vikings
• Gunbrick - Various voices

Gallery

• 

  Jon Annal's avatar in Flash Gaming
  Summit 2010
• 

  Jon Annal's Freeze Frame

External links

• Jon Annal in the Flash Gaming Summit 2010
• PixelJoint's profile
• Jon Annal's profile on Nitrome
• Jon Annal's Twitter account