Jonathan Keefer

Game Curator

Jon wearing Miata slippers

Favorite Coolmath Games: Clicker Heroes, Block the Pig, Tube Master

 

Jon is a strategy game fanatic - his favorite games are open-ended puzzles with strategic, complex systems and creative solutions. He loves that games allow anyone to share in unique experiences, like designing a subway system in Mini Metro: London or building a civilization in Pre-Civilization Bronze Age. He has been helping discover and design games that make you think for Coolmath since 2014. 

 

In his free time, Jon enjoys biking, playing board games, card games, Nintendo, Xbox and PC games. In past lives he has helped design board games and card games, including the Chaotic Trading Card Game and the Twilight movie (yes, that Twilight) board game series.

 

Jon is a graduate of NYU’s Stern School of Business and is deeply passionate about using games as a way to help people think, learn, and grow. His accomplishments in the web gaming space have given him opportunities to share his insights as a speaker and panelist at industry events such as GDC, Gamescom and Pocket Gamer Connects.

Games Reviewed By Jonathan Keefer

Shrink It

August 27, 2011

A very cool geometry escape game! Your goal is to help the blue octagon escape into the white area. To do this, you can make objects larger and smaller.

Color World Gameplay

Color World

August 24, 2011

Shoot fuzzy cannon balls to turn the boxes into the color that matches the little guy inside each box. It just doesn't get anymore fun than that!

IQ Ball Gameplay

IQ Ball

August 21, 2011

How high is your critter IQ? See how few moves it takes you to get this little IQ Ball critter to his target!

Arithmetic Game

January 1, 1999

In this timed game, how fast can you pick out numbers from the grid that complete the missing spots in an equation?

Animation Puzzle

January 1, 1999

This puzzle is moving while you try to put it together! I could give you some tips for solving this, but it will be more fun for you to figure it out for yourself.

Abducktion

January 1, 1999

The ducks of the Earth have been abducted by aliens and you need to save them. This one takes some thinking and a lot of practice!

Bloxorz Gameplay

Bloxorz

January 1, 1999

Flip the block over this way and over that way to get it to fall in the hole. You'll be flipping blocks in your sleep!

Bricks Breaking

January 1, 1999

I've played this game until I was blurry-eyed. Click on groups of bricks that are the same color to get rid of them. The trick is to plan ahead to delete huge chunks at once.

Pod Launcher

January 1, 1999

Pile explosives under the Pod to successfully launch it into space... How big of a blast do you need to launch the Pod on the Moon? How about on Jupiter?

Word Scramble

January 1, 1999

This game does what you'd think: It gives you a row of letters and you have to rearrange them to figure out what word they make.