The Death Is Cheap trope as used in popular culture. Important characters will have a terrible tendency to die dramatically, but will not, under any. Tim Cain Wikipedia. Tim Cain. Born. Timothy Cain. Nationality. American. Occupation. Programmer, designer, producer. Employer. Obsidian Entertainment. Known for. Creator of Fallout series. Arcanum Character Editor' title='Arcanum Character Editor' />SpousesRobert Land 2. Tim Cain is an American video game developer best known as the producer, lead programmer and one of the main designers of the 1. Fallout. 1 In 2. IGN as one of the top 1. BiographyeditEarly lifeeditCain went to college at the University of Virginia and to graduate school in California. During this time, he helped out a friend programming a card game named Grand Slam Bridge for CYBRON Corporation which was released in 1. In 1. 98. 9, he received a Masters Degree in Computer Science at University of California, Irvine. Interplay EntertainmenteditBegan as a freelance programmer for Interplay where he worked on the fantasy role play editor The Bards Tale Construction Set. After finishing the game in 1. Interplay. For the first time he worked with Leonard Boyarsky, who was a freelance artist at the time, as designer and programmer on the business simulator Rags to Riches The Financial Market Simulation which was released in 1. In 1. 99. 4 he started for a couple of months as the only employee working on a game which would later become the post apocalyptic CRPG game Fallout. He lay out the basic concept based on the GURPS system and began programming the isometric game engine. No more missed important software updates UpdateStar 11 lets you stay up to date and secure with the software on your computer. Arcanum Savegame Editor Arcanum Character Computer Game Reviews. Arcanum Cheats and Cheat Codes Unlike Baldurs Gate 2, Arcanum does not come with built in PC cheat. Arcanum Character Editor' title='Arcanum Character Editor' />He also took over the producer role from Thomas R. Decker who had to supervise multiple other projects at the time. With a development cycle of three and a half years Fallout was released in 1. During this time he was also a programming consultant on Stonekeep 1. Star Trek Starfleet Academy 1. Before leaving Interplay to form his own company in January 1. The Den area of Fallout 2. Troika GameseditAfter forming Troika Games with fellow Interplay workers Leonard Boyarsky and Jason D. Anderson in 1. 99. Arcanum Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura a steampunkfantasy an RPG game for Sierra On Line, Inc. His next game reunited him with Thomas R. Decker, the original Fallout producer. As project leader and lead designer he produces within 2. Dungeons Dragons game The Temple of Elemental Evil for publisher Atari in 2. While he loved making the game he was disappointed that it did not turn out what he wanted it to be. He helped out programming the last Troika game, Vampire The Masquerade Bloodlines, a horror RPG for Activision in 2. He also worked on a post apocalyptic roleplay game for which he couldnt convince any publisher to fund. As consequence he had to lay off most employees in late 2. Troika Games in February 2. Carbine StudioseditHe joined as the programming director at Carbine Studios working on a fantasy MMO game for NCSoft. He was promoted to design director in October 2. Cain left Carbine Studios in July 2. Obsidian EntertainmenteditTim Cain joined Obsidian Entertainment as senior programmer. He worked on Pillars of Eternity, which was funded through Kickstarter. Personal lifeeditCain is affected by hereditary color blindness, stating in a Gamasutra interview that he can now see less than half the spectrum of colors. He enjoys cooking, particularly Japanese and Chinese cuisine, and his favorite dishes are garlic chicken fried rice and chicken karaage. He married Robert Land on July 1. There is more of me in Fallout and Arcanum than in any other game I made5In an interview he criticized the bigger influence from salesmarketing department during Fallout 2 development We were losing part of the game to a larger group who had bigger plans for it1. Initial reactions after Bethesda bought the Fallout license from Interplay in 2. I was surprised and a little disappointed. I was hoping that Troika would get the license, but we were massively outbid. But in the end, they made a good game. After closing Troika Games in 2. Game Winning Eleven 8 Full Version For Pc. I am staying in the industry but keeping a much lower profile than I did at Troika. Instead of talking about making games or trying to convince people to play or publish my games, I am doing what makes me very happy making games. On Bethesdas. Fallout 3 He enjoyed playing the game, but was critical about the humor and the reuse of too many story elements from the earlier Fallout games which he would have done differently. He lauded the adaptation of S. P. E. C. I. A. L. FPS RPG and their understanding of the lore of the game. External linksedit.