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Tom Hall is a Game Designer born in Wisconsin . He attended the University Of Wisconsin-Madison and there received a B.S. in Computer Science . In 1987 he worked at Softdisk Inc. , where he was both a programmer and the editor of '' Big Blue Disk '', a software bundle delivered monthly. Along with some of his co-workers, John Romero , John Carmack , and Adrian Carmack , he founded Id Software . He served as creative director and designer there, working on games such as the '' Commander Keen '' series, '' Wolfenstein 3D '', '' Spear Of Destiny '', and '' Doom ''. After some disputes with John Carmack about the design for Doom, he left to join Apogee / 3D Realms . 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. Next Hall co-founded Ion Storm with John Romero. But the company was less than successful, apart from '' Deus Ex '', in which Hall voiced One Of The Characters , and he and John founded Monkeystone Games , a company with far less grandiose plans. He designed, and Romero programmed, '' Hyperspace Delivery Boy! '', which was released in 2002. He and Romero were hired by Midway Games , and Monkeystone closed in January 2005. 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. 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 first appeared in ''Commander Keen'' episode IV, and references to it have appeared in many other games since. Tom Hall was recently lampooned in the internet flash animation . In the cartoon, his giddy, eccentric persona is characterized by having him wear the Commander Keen helmet, a towell around his neck like a cape, and he carried a toy laser pistol. EXTERNAL LINKS
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