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Tim Holt
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  • Corvallis, OR
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Team Lead/Usability/Architect/Software Engineer at Hewlett Packard.

Game development background in game design, level design, coding, and user interface/usability.

Worked with Valve Software for a few years when the mod team I was part of (Day of Defeat) got bought.

Spent 13 years working on oceanographic research ships developing software for real time data acquisition, display and management.

Computer Science degree that's so old I can say I have taken a class in COBOL :)

Presented (a long time ago) at GDC and other conferences on the use of games, game technologies and game concepts for non-entertainment applications such as education, simulation and visualization.

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Water/Ocean simulation and physics
Dec 14, 2010
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Lag compensation with networked 2D games
Dec 18, 2010
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How to create a hexagon world map in PHP from a database for a browser based strategy game
Dec 12, 2010
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How to deal with (bad?) player suggestions
Apr 4, 2013
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Reasons to disable game save during combat (e.g. Mass Effect 2)
Jan 24, 2011
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3D Illusion of a 2D Planet Texture
Dec 6, 2010
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Is it unethical to make a game AI that is secretly non-competitive?
Oct 19, 2017
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Tile sizes in 2D games
Dec 20, 2010
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Creating an illusion of stress and danger
Dec 23, 2012
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How can I find an optimum set of colors for 10 players?
Dec 29, 2012
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