Tom Hall at Ion Storm, Dallas, 1999

Tom A. Hall (born September 2, 1964) is a game designer born in Wisconsin. He attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison and there received a B.S. in Computer Science. In 1987 he worked at Softdisk Inc., where he was both a programmer and the editor of Big Blue Disk, a software bundle delivered monthly. Along with some of his co-workers, John Romero, John Carmack, and Adrian Carmack, he founded id Software. He served as creative director and designer there, working on games such as the Commander Keen series, Wolfenstein 3D, Spear of Destiny, and Doom. Image File history File links Size of this preview: 218 × 599 pixel Image in higher resolution (325 × 893 pixel, file size: 80 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File uploaded first to English Wikipedia → Image:Tom_Hall. ... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 218 × 599 pixel Image in higher resolution (325 × 893 pixel, file size: 80 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File uploaded first to English Wikipedia → Image:Tom_Hall. ... A solar wind is a stream of particles (mostly high-energy protons ~ 500 keV) which are ejected from the upper atmosphere of a star (in the case of a star other than the Earths Sun, it may be called a stellar wind instead). ... September 2 is the 245th day of the year (246th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1964 (MCMLXIV) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1964 calendar). ... A game designer is a person who designs games. ... Official language(s) None Capital Madison Largest city Milwaukee Area  Ranked 23rd  - Total 65,498 sq mi (169,790 km²)  - Width 260 miles (420 km)  - Length 310 miles (500 km)  - % water 17  - Latitude 42°30N to 47°3N  - Longitude 86°49W to 92°54W Population  Ranked... The University of Wisconsin–Madison (also known as UW–Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, University of Wisconsin, or UW) is a highly selective public research university located in Madison, Wisconsin. ... Computer scaence, or computing science, is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and their implementation and application in computer systems. ... Softdisk is a software and Internet company based in Shreveport, Louisiana. ... Cover to Big Blue Disk issue #3 (1986) Big Blue Disk (ISSN 0893-2212) was a monthly disk magazine that was put out by Softdisk Publishing starting in 1986, getting its name from the nickname for IBM, Big Blue. It carried various games and applications for DOS as well as... Alfonso John Romero (born October 28, 1967 in Colorado Springs, Colorado) is a well-known game designer, programmer, and developer in the video game industry. ... John D. Carmack II (born August 20, 1970) is a widely recognized figure in the video game industry. ... Adrian Carmack (born on May 5, 1969) is one of the four founders of id Software and has worked there as an artist since its creation. ... id Software (IPA: officially, though originally ) is an American computer game developer based in Mesquite, Texas, a suburb of Dallas. ... Commander Keen is a series of video games developed by id Software in the early 1990s, which was successful at replicating the side-scrolling action of the NES Super Mario Bros. ... Wolfenstein 3D (commonly abbreviated to Wolf 3D) is the computer game that started the first person shooter genre on the PC. It was created by id Software and published by Apogee Software on May 5, 1992. ... Spear of Destiny, often also called Spear, Wolfenstein: Spear of Destiny or just SoD, was first published on September 18, 1992 by FormGen Corporation and is the prequel to id Softwares first person shooter Wolfenstein 3D. In this game, like in Wolfenstein 3D, the player assumes the role of... Doom (or DOOM)[1] is a 1993 computer game by id Software that is among the landmark titles in the first-person shooter genre. ...

After some disputes with John Carmack about the design for Doom, he left to join Apogee/3D Realms. He was the game designer for Rise of the Triad, produced Terminal Velocity, and helped in varying degrees on Duke Nukem II and Duke Nukem 3D as well. He also worked on the Prey engine until August 12, 1996, when he left Apogee. Corporate logo of Apogee Software Apogee Software, Ltd. ... 3D Realms is the name of a computer game publisher and developer based in Garland, Texas. ... Rise of the Triad: Dark War (acronym is ROTT) is a first-person shooter video game that was first released on February 17, 1995 and developed by Apogee Software (now known as 3D Realms). ... In-game screenshot of Terminal Velocity Terminal Velocity was a renowned video game during the mid-1990s, developed by Terminal Reality and published by 3D Realms in 1995. ... Duke Nukem II is an MS-DOS platform game developed by Apogee Software and released December 3, 1993. ... Duke Nukem 3D is a first-person shooter developed by 3D Realms and released on January 29, 1996 by Apogee Software, featuring the adventures of Duke Nukem, based on a character that had appeared in earlier platform games by the company: Duke Nukem and Duke Nukem II. // Calander from Duke... Prey is a first-person shooter video game developed by Human Head Studios and produced by 3D Realms, using a heavily modified version of the Doom 3 engine. ... A game engine is the core software component of a computer or video game or other interactive application with real-time graphics. ... August 12 is the 224th day of the year (225th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ...

Next Hall co-founded Ion Storm with John Romero, where he produced Anachronox. The company was less than successful, apart from Deus Ex, in which Hall voiced one of the characters. He and John then founded Monkeystone Games, a company with far less grandiose plans. He designed, and Romero programmed, Hyperspace Delivery Boy!, which was released in 2002. He and Romero were hired by Midway Games, and Monkeystone closed in January 2005. Hall also left Midway early that year and did independent game consultation work out of the Austin, TX, until in February he joined a startup company called KingsIsle Entertainment based in the same area. Ion Storm Inc. ... Anachronox (pronounced ) is a 3-D, third person computer role-playing game produced by Tom Hall and the Ion Storm games studio and released in 2001. ... This article is about the video game. ... Monkeystone Games logo Monkeystone Games is a video and computer game company founded by John Romero, Tom Hall, Stevie Case, and Brian Moon. ... Hyperspace Delivery Boy! was the first title released by computer game production company Monkeystone Games. ... Midway Games (NYSE: MWY) is an American video game publisher. ... Nickname: Live Music Capital of the World Location in the state of Texas Coordinates: Country United States State Texas Counties Travis County, Williamson County Government  - Mayor Will Wynn Area  - City  296. ... A startup company is a company with a limited operating history. ... KingsIsle Entertainment is a video game developer based in Texas. ...

He is the Mezzino Legend of the Year 2007!^{[citation needed]} (Mezzino Pavilions Lincoln Awards, April 2007)

Dopefish

Hall is also the creator of the Dopefish, a large, green, buck-toothed, belching, dimwitted fish whose thought process is restricted to "Swim, swim, hungry". The Dopefish first appeared in Commander Keen episode IV, and references to it have appeared in many other video games since. Several poses of the Dopefish, accompanied by its far less famous cousin, the Schoolfish. ...

Trivia

• Recently, both Tom Hall and former co-worker John Romero guest hosted Ep. 53 of the podcast The Widget.
• Tom Hall also guest hosted Ep. 54 of the podcast The Widget
• Tom Hall left a clue about his birthday with a September 2, 2006 update, where he states that The Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything is his age.[1]
• Tom Hall provided the voices for Morpheus, a sentient AI, and Walton Simons, the nano-augmented Director of FEMA, for the computer role-playing game Deus Ex. He also voiced the project director in Deus Ex: Invisible War's opening cutscene.
• Hall voiced PAL-18, Councilman Willis, Dr. Hush-Hush and Eddie the Chew in Anachronox

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External links

• Hall's personal website
• MobyGames' entry on Hall