Timothy Cain

Developer BIO

Best known as the producer, lead programmer and designer of the award-winning Fallout, Tim Cain has worked in the game industry since 1982. While working as a programmer for Cybron, Inc. on Grand Slam Bridge (published by Electronic Arts in 1986), Tim completed a B.S. in Computer Science Engineering at the University of Virginia. He then moved to California to complete M.S. in Computer Science at the University of California at Irvine.

Returning to the game industry in 1991 at Interplay Productions, Tim was the lead programmer on Bard's Tale Construction Set and Rags to Riches and performed additional programming on Star Trek: 25th Anniversary and Stonekeep. He also designed and programmed GNW, a user interface and OS-abstraction library utilized in many Interplay PC and Macintosh games, including Star Trek: Starfleet Academy, M.A.X., and Atomic Bomberman.

After completing Fallout and the design for Fallout 2, Tim left Interplay in 1998 to form Troika Games, where he could work as a programmer, designer and project leader. Three award-winning role-playing games followed: Arcanum was shipped by Sierra in 2001, The Temple of Elemental Evil by Atari in 2003, and Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines by Activision in 2004.

Tim joined Carbine Studios in 2005 as their Programming Director, and in 2008 he was promoted to their Design Director, where he is currently designing their latest MMO game. In his spare time, Tim has lectured at the University of California at Irvine on the game development process and written a chapter in a textbook on programming artificial intelligence in games.

Also Known As

• Tim Cain

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Games Credited

Fallout 3 (2008), Bethesda Softworks LLC
Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines (2004), Activision Publishing, Inc.
The Temple of Elemental Evil: A Classic Greyhawk Adventure (2003), Atari, Inc.
Arcanum: Of Steamworks & Magick Obscura (2001), Sierra On-Line, Inc.
Fallout 2 (1998), Interplay Productions, Inc.
Atomic Bomberman (1997), Interplay Entertainment Corp.
Fallout (1997), Interplay Productions, Inc.
Star Trek: Starfleet Academy (1997), Interplay Productions, Inc.
M.A.X.: Mechanized Assault and Exploration (1996), Interplay Productions, Inc.
Stonekeep (1995), Interplay Productions Ltd.
Rags to Riches: The Financial Market Simulation (1993), Interplay Entertainment Corp.
The Bard's Tale Construction Set (1991), Interplay Productions, Inc.