Jonathan Howe

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Jonathan Howe at DragonCon 2005

Jonathan Howe is a programmer. Working in Flash, he programmed the second wave of games for homestarrunner.com between 2003 and 2008.

Early Homestar Runner games were very simple, made by modifying basic Flash tutorials. Jonathan Howe emailed the Brothers Chaps and offered to collaborate with them, resulting in the development of TROGDOR! and several other Videlectrix games. Howe, who had been living in Boston, by 2005 had moved to Georgia to collaborate in-person on Homestar Runner games (while continuing to work as a freelancer). By 2007, he had moved out of the Atlanta area which dramatically decreased the amount of time and effort he could contribute to the site. Dangeresque Roomisode 1: Behind the Dangerdesque (released December 1, 2008) is the last game he contributed to; later ports and revivals of games he worked on were completed by other programmers.

Credits

Howe labeled the photo of the Disgruntled Cleaning Guy as "me" in Thy Dungeonman III's game files.

In addition to programming the first nine Stinkoman 20X6 levels, Howe is also credited for composing the game's music.

He played an unspecified character in the Peasant's Quest movie trailer.

In Thy Dungeonman 3, a photograph of Howe is used to depict the Disgruntled Cleaning Guy.

If one reaches or exceeds 2,000 points in TROGDOR!, Jonathan Howe's name will appear in flashing colors at the bottom left side of the game over screen. Strong Bad calls this Easter egg "the coolest secret thing [he] ever found in a video game".
The signature "Love, jonathan ("nickname")" is hidden in the XML Source for the Weeklies, suggesting Howe contributed to the programming of the Quote of the Week, Weekly Fanstuff, and/or Sketchbook.
Howe appeared on several strongbad_email.exe DVD commentaries.
- He assisted with the animation on the Strong Bad Email rampage.