Tim Cain (born August 25, 1961) is an American video game developer best known as the producer, lead programmer and one of the main designers of the 1997 computer game Fallout. In 2009 he was chosen by IGN as one of the top 100 game creators of all time.
Cain 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 1986. In 1989, he received a Master’s Degree in Computer Science at University of California, Irvine.
Began as a freelance programmer for Interplay where he worked on the fantasy role-play editor The Bard's Tale Construction Set. After finishing the game in 1991, he was employed full-time at 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 1993.
Tim Cain is a computer game developer for Interplay and Troika Games.
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