Tom Hall
Tom Hall at Ion Storm, Dallas, 1999
Born	September 2, 1964 (1964-09-02) (age 43)
Occupation	Game designer
Employers	KingsIsle Entertainment
Website TOMTOMTOM.com

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After some disputes with John Carmack about the design for Doom, he left to join Apogee/3D Realms. 3D Realms (legal name Apogee Software Ltd) is the name of a video and computer game producer (not publisher and developer based in Garland Texas, a suburb of 3D Realms (legal name Apogee Software Ltd) is the name of a video and computer game producer (not publisher and developer based in Garland Texas, a suburb of 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. Rise of the Triad Dark War (abbreviated as ROTT) is a First-person shooter video game that was first released on February Terminal Velocity is a Video game developed by Terminal Reality and published by 3D Realms on May 1 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 computer game developed by 3D Realms and published by Apogee Software. He also worked on the Prey engine until August 12, 1996, when he left Apogee. For other uses of the word Prey see Prey (disambiguation Prey is a First-person shooter Video game developed by Human A game engine is a software system designed for the creation and development of computer and video games Events 1099 - First Crusade: Battle of Ascalon - Crusaders under the command of Godfrey of Bouillon defeat Fatimid Year 1996 ( MCMXCVI) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display full 1996 Gregorian calendar)

Next Hall co-founded Ion Storm with John Romero, where he produced Anachronox. Ion Storm Inc (sometimes spelled ION Storm) was a Texas based developer of computer games founded by John Romero, a co-creator of the wildly Anachronox (əˈnækrənɒks is a 3-D, third person Computer role-playing game produced by Tom Hall and the Ion Storm games The company was less than successful, apart from Deus Ex, in which Hall voiced one of the characters. Deus Ex (abbreviated DX and pronounced as ˌdeɪəsˈɛks day-uss ex) is a Cyberpunk -themed Action role-playing game developed This guide details the role and background information of major characters appearing in the video game Deus Ex. He and John then founded Monkeystone Games, a company with far less grandiose plans. Monkeystone Games was a Video game developer and publisher founded by John Romero, Tom Hall, Stevie Case, and Brian Moon He designed, and Romero programmed, Hyperspace Delivery Boy!, which was released in 2002. Hyperspace Delivery Boy! is the first title released by Video game production company Monkeystone Games. He and Romero were hired by Midway Games, and Monkeystone closed in January 2005. Midway Games ( (formerly Midway Manufacturing) is an American Video game publisher. 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. A startup company or start-up is a Company with a limited operating history KingsIsle Entertainment is a Video game developer based in Austin and Dallas, Texas.

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 is a dimwitted fictional Fish that originated in the fourth Commander Keen Video game, Secret of the Oracle, released The Dopefish first appeared in Commander Keen episode IV, and references to it have appeared in many other video games since.

Voice work

• 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. This guide details the role and background information of major characters appearing in the video game Deus Ex. The purpose of FEMA is to coordinate the response to a Disaster which has occurred in the United States and which overwhelms the resources of local and state authorities Deus Ex (abbreviated DX and pronounced as ˌdeɪəsˈɛks day-uss ex) is a Cyberpunk -themed Action role-playing game developed He also voiced the project director in Deus Ex: Invisible War's opening cutscene and PAL-18, Councilman Willis, Dr. Deus Ex Invisible War is a first-person Computer and video game developed by Ion Storm Inc Hush-Hush and Eddie the Chew in Anachronox. Anachronox (əˈnækrənɒks is a 3-D, third person Computer role-playing game produced by Tom Hall and the Ion Storm games

External links

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