Jon Cortázar (Bilbao, 1978) is an active spanish game designer, founder of RELEVO Videogames indie development studio. In 2004 he joined Karoshi Corporation team, where he started MSX development: although his first contributions were mostly graphics, later on he was able to create full game projects, including coding and composing. In 2009 he created RELEVO Videogames as an 8 bit homebrew game development team, which in 2011 became RELEVO Videogames SL, a professional game development studio. Nowadays, Jon continues managing game development projects for both 8 bit systems and actual platforms.
Credits (8 bit productions)
as coder and designer
- Azzurro 8-Bit Jam (2011) (MSX, ZX Spectrum)
- Está en el Pantano (2010) (MSX, ZX Spectrum)
- Invasion of the Zombie Monsters (2010) (MSX, ZX Spectrum)
- British Bob (2009) (MSX)
- Está en la Caja (2009) (MSX, ZX Spectrum)
- La Corona Encantada (2009) (MSX, ZX Spectrum)
as composer
- British Bob (2009) (MSX)
Credits from his Karoshi Corp. era
as coder, designer and composer
- Night Driver (2007) (MSX remake from the original Atari game)
- Malaika Prehistoric Quest (2006)
- Saimazoom (2005) (MSX remake from the original Dinamic game)
as coder and designer
- La Corona Encantada (2008) (MSXdev'08 early version)
- Phantomas Saga: Infinity (2006) (MSX version from the original CEZ GS game)
as designer
- Picture Puzzle (2004) (MSX remake from the original Success game)
- Factory Infection (2004)
- Duck Hunt (2004) (MSX remake from the original Nintendo game)
as composer
- Griel's Quest for the Sangraal (2005) (MSX1 remake from the original Thinking Rabbit game)
- Picture Puzzle (2004) (MSX remake from the original Success game)
- Factory Infection (2004)
Relevant links
- Entrevista a Jon Cortázar de Relevo Videogames - interview by Ramon Nafria at Videoshock (04/27/2012)
- Entrevista a Jon Cortázar - interview by Daniel Paradero at Gamikia (12/14/2011)
- RELEVO Videogames - official website with the latests news about past and current developments.
- Karoshi Corporation - Karoshi Corporation and Karoshi MSX Community official website.
