John Tam
Moby ID: 23521
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John Tam started his career at Davidson and Associates and then moved to Activision. Moving up from QA roles in Quake 2 and Hexen 2, he worked in production on such titles as Sin, Wages of Sin, Soldier of Fortune and Star Trek: Elite Forces. Since then John worked stints at GameSpy, Electronic Arts, Namco, Sony, Capcom and now RedOctane. As a Producer at RedOctane, John is the head of the Software production group and consults on all controller hardware development.
Credited on 14 games
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| Necropolis (2016, Windows) | Special Thanks |
| Quake II (2009, Zeebo) | Thanks to Activision specially to |
| Guitar Hero II (2006, PlayStation 2) | Executive Producer |
| Guitar Hero (2005, PlayStation 2) | Producer |
| In the Groove (2005, PlayStation 2) | Producer |
| Maximo vs Army of Zin (2003, PlayStation 2) | Production Assistants |
| Pac-Man World 2 (2002, GameCube) | Testers |
| World Series Baseball 2K2 (2001, Dreamcast) | Special Thanks |
| SiN: Wages of Sin (1999, Windows) | Special Thanks to Activision |
| Heretic II (1998, Windows) | Special Thanks To |
| SiN (1998, Windows) | Associate Producer |
| Hexen II (1997, Windows) | Quality Assurance Lead |
| Quake Mission Pack No. I: Scourge of Armagon (1997, DOS) | Quality Assurance |
| Quake Mission Pack No. 2: Dissolution of Eternity (1997, DOS) | Quality Assurance |
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Frequent Collaborators
People- 7 games with Steve Rosenthal
- 6 games with Mitch Lasky
- 6 games with Tim Vanlaw
- 5 games with Michael Rivera
- 5 games with Henk Hartong
- 5 games with Steve Stringer
- 4 games with John Carmack
- 4 games with Kevin Cloud
- 4 games with Barrett Alexander
- 4 games with Michael Spann
Companies
- 8 games with Activision Publishing, Inc.
- 8 games with Activision Blizzard UK Ltd.
- 6 games with id Software, Inc.
- 3 games with RedOctane, Inc.
- 3 games with Xplosiv
- 3 games with Valve Corporation
- 3 games with Empire Interactive Europe Ltd.
- 3 games with Activision Deutschland GmbH
- 2 games with Raven Software Corporation
- 2 games with Harmonix Music Systems, Inc.
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