Billy Thomson
Moby ID: 13324
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Billy Thomson began his career in the games industry in January of 1996, when he joined
He left DMA and joined Rage (Scotland) in early 2001 where he worked as a Senior Designer on the multiplayer FPS game Mobile Forces, following which he became Lead Designer on the multi-award winning Crackdown, which has sold a little over 1,500,000 copies for the Xbox 360 since release.
After completing Crackdown he was asked to research and prototype possible game ideas for an undisclosed project alongside Barry Cairns.
He then decided to team up with Gary Liddon and Gareth Noyce at Xen Services, moving there early in 2008 to help the company pitch the design for their current project to prospective publishers.
Xen Group were successful with their pitch and recently reformed as Ruffian Games where he is currently the Creative Director.
Credited on 10 games
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| Grand Theft Auto V (2022, Xbox Series) | Design Director: Online Modes / Co-Studio Director |
| Lumo (2017, Nintendo Switch) | Hat tips, Salutes & Hugs |
| Nike+ Kinect Training (2012, Xbox 360) | Creative Director |
| Kinect Star Wars (2012, Xbox 360) | Creative Director |
| Crackdown 2 (2010, Xbox 360) | Creative Director |
| Crackdown (2007, Xbox 360) | Design Lead |
| Mobile Forces (2002, Windows) | Level Design |
| Grand Theft Auto 2 (1999, Windows) | Designers |
| Tanktics (1999, Windows) | Level Designers |
| Grand Theft Auto (1997, DOS) | Map Design and Mission Programming |
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Frequent Collaborators
People- 5 games with Gary Liddon
- 5 games with Gary Penn
- 5 games with Raymond Usher
- 5 games with David Jones
- 5 games with Stephen Banks
- 5 games with Steve Hodgson
- 5 games with Barry Cairns
- 5 games with David Hynd
- 5 games with Paul Large
- 5 games with Martin Good
Companies
- 4 games with Rockstar North Ltd.
- 3 games with Xbox Game Studios
- 3 games with Rockstar Games, Inc.
- 3 games with Microsoft Corporation
- 3 games with Soundelux Design Music Group
- 3 games with Rockstar Dundee Ltd.
- 2 games with Realtime Worlds Ltd.
- 2 games with Take-Two Interactive...
- 2 games with Mastertronic Games Ltd.
- 2 games with Take Two Interactive GmbH
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