Jon Hare

Jon "Jops" Hare (born 20 January 1966) is an English computer game designer, video game artist, musician , and an early UK games industry executive, as the co-founder and director of Sensible Software. In 2006 the Sensible Software game Sensible World of Soccer, for which Hare was Creative Director and Lead Designer, was entered into a Games Canon of the 10 most important video games of all time by Stanford University. Hare has more than 4 decades of experience producing football games: MicroProse Soccer 1988, Sensible World of Soccer 1994, Sensible Soccer (mobile) 2004 and Sociable Soccer 2019, all developed by Tower Studios. Visiting Professor of Games for Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge since 2017, Hare has also been a voting member of BAFTA since 2004 for whom he frequently chairs Games Awards Juries.