Technically Not Tech: South Street’s J1Studios to release first video game
In junior high school most students doodle or play hangman when not paying attention. Jason Richardson, on the other hand, wrote code.
“All during school I just wouldn’t pay attention to the teacher. It looked like I was taking notes but I was just writing code on graph paper,” he says. “I have a thing for creating.”
The 31-year-old founder of South Street-based J1 Studios spent his youth making board games, card games and video games and hasn’t let up since. Richardson is taking the hobbies of his youth and slowly building a geek media empire complete with anime-style comics, podcasts and video game development and will have a booth at the upcoming GameX expo.
But, if you ask Richardson, he’ll tell you it all started with an Apple II and a Zelda instruction manual.
