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

Marble Lines

December 31, 1998

I've played this game over and over and over. You shoot the ball to hit balls of the same color to make them disappear. If they get past you to the hole, you lose!

Primate Pile Up

December 31, 1998

Stack the primates until they can reach the bananas... Don't let them fall!

Maze Race 2

December 31, 1998

This game is similar to Maze, but you have to get to the goal before the computer does. There are cool things that you can pick up along the way to help.

Twins

December 31, 1998

This is like Shisen, but easier because you are just matching balls of the same color that can be connected by no more than three lines.

Coffee Shop gameplay

Coffee Shop

December 31, 1998

A great business game where you run your own coffee shop. You have to plan your budget, your recipe and how much to charge.

Phit

December 31, 1998

This is one of my favorite puzzle games. They give you the pieces and you have to figure out how to slide them together so the fit into the box.

Me and the Key 3

December 31, 1998

Another awesome Me and the Key game! Figure out what to go on each level to find the key. Seems like an easy one... at first!

Knight Slider

December 31, 1998

Slide the pieces around the board to help the knight escape. Can you do it in the fewest moves possible?

Spectrum Genesis

December 31, 1998

I love this game. It's got similar thinking as Bloxorz. You have to move the bar around to get to the star, but you have to hit all the dots first.

Seesaw Logic

December 31, 1998

I really like this one. It seems really easy at first, then you really have to think. You are shown a bunch of objects on scales and have to figure out which one is heaviest.