Working in the game industry since 1989 when he completed a contract for then Lucasfilm Games, Tim Mensch has bounced back and forth between contract work and being an employee, as the mood (and economy) suits him. At his current job in 2009 at PlayFirst, he is the lead architect of the Playground SDK, a popular casual game engine which is available for free at http://developer.playfirst.com.

In 2002 he was married, and he lives in Boulder, Colorado, with his two children. Tim commutes back to San Francisco about once a month to remind the folks at PlayFirst what he looks like, telecommuting the rest of the time.