Tim Cain

Tim Cain is an American video game developer best known as one of the creators of the Fallout series.

Career

Cain started his career in the video game industry as a freelance programmer for Interplay working on a game creation system The Bard’s Tale Construction Set. In 1991 he was hired as a full-time employee. The breakthrough project for Cain was 1997 cult role-playing game Fallout. He created the original game design of Fallout, was the game’s producers and one of the lead programmers. After finishing his work on the Fallout 2 in 1998, Tim Cain left Interplay and alongside Leonard Boyarsky and Jason Anderson founded Troika Games. The studio developed three games, and Cain was involved in the development of each of them: Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura, The Temple of Elemental Evil, and Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines. After Troika Games was closed, he worked for several other development studios and currently is a senior programmer in Obsidian Entertainment.