From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jonathan Morin
Jonathan Morin
Jonathan A. Morin (born 1970) is a computer game devel- He is now the Director of Engineering for U.I. Pacific
oper, a programmer and senior programmer on the pop- Games.
ular Diablo games series.
Works
Biography • Diablo II: Lord of Destruction (2001 expansion pack),
Morin was born in 1970 in Santa Clara, California, the Blizzard Entertainment Inc.
youngest of three children to Betty J. Morin and Clayton • Diablo II (2000)
A. Morin. His mother a onetime school teacher turned • Diablo (1997)
house wife and his father an engineer at Applied Mate-
rials. He attended Pioneer High School and graduated in
1989.
References
In 1996, he started in the game industry at Blizzard • Jonathan Morin at the Internet Movie Database
North as a programmer. He was a programmer on Diablo, • Profile at Moby Games
most notably working on the theme rooms for the game. • http://www.flipsidegames.net/fsg_aboutus.html
He was also a Senior Programmer on Diablo II, where he • http://www.gamespot.com/pc/rpg/diablo2/
worked on the items system, inventory system, graphics tech_info.html
loading system, compositing system and various other Persondata
systems for the game. Name Morin, Jonathan
In 2004, he left Blizzard North to go live in the Philip-
pines with his then fiance, now wife. Alternative names
In 2005, after getting bored of not programming he Short description
co-founded FlipSide Games, Inc. in Manila, Philippines. Date of birth 1970
In 2006, he then came back to the US and had a brief
Place of birth
stint at Monolith Productions. Unfortunately the weath-
er was not agreeable to his wife, so he moved back to San Date of death
Jose, California in 2007. Place of death
In 2007, he then met up with some of his fellow Bliz-
zard North friends, Michio Okamura and Eric Sexton, and
was asked to be the Director of Technology for their new-
ly formed company U.I. Pacific Games, Inc.
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