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Jonatan Söderström
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Jonatan Söderström

Swedish video game designer

Jonatan Söderström (born 9 October 1985), also known as Cactus, is a Swedish video game developer. He is best-known as the co-designer and programmer of Hotline Miami (2012) and Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number (2015), but had prior to those games developed over 40 small freeware games, many of which were positively-received.2

From Wikipedia’s article on Jonatan Söderström (this version), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Born Oct 9, 1985.1

About

Söderström's game Clean Asia! was nominated for both Excellence In Visual Arts and Excellence in Audio at the Independent Games Festival in 2008. In 2010, he won the IGF's Nuovo Award, which honours unconventional game development, for his puzzler Tuning.

All of Söderström's games prior to Hotline Miami were created with Game Maker, and he was one of the most-influential developers in the Game Maker community, together with others like Derek Yu. At the GDC 2009, he delivered a talk called "The Four-Hour Game Design", describing the methods he uses in producing his games.

From Wikipedia’s article on Jonatan Söderström, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.2

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Career

Occupation: game designer.4

Known for: Hotline Miami.5

Personal life

  • BornOct 9, 1985, Sweden6
  • CitizenshipSweden7

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