Tyler Thompson Email & Phone Number

San Francisco, California, US

As Technical Director on Game of Thrones: Legends, I have been helping launch a exciting new mobile game for Zynga. It's been a privilege to both be working with a senior team of mobile developers and to work on top of a mature, powerful mobile engine. My specific contributions have been helping shape the gameplay feel and providing technology to solve.

San Francisco, California, US

As Executive Producer, I guided Echtra from four employees to shipping Torchlight 3 mid-pandemic and across PC, XboxOne, PS4 and Switch. I also helped sell the company to Zynga and guided it through that transition. Then I helped us start on a new ARPG project that is very exciting. I oversaw engineering, design and production - hiring, mentoring, setting.

Coding, designing, producing and leading a small team to make something I would love to play.

Irvine, CA, US

At Battle.net, I led a group of 26 engineers to provide SDK's to Blizzard's studios. We solved challenging problems and refactored massive systems. This included the group developing and supporting the latest version of install and patch solutions.As part of this effort, I oversaw three different sub-teams, coached their leaders and set overall direction.

Irvine, CA, US

Redwood City, CA, US

• Creative Director and Producer - unannounced mobile/tablet Maxis IP (1+ year)
• Invented new game designs in a blue-ocean design space to develop a new Maxis IP and create a new genre of games.
• Engineered and organized prototypes in Unity and internal engines.
• Managed production, pitching, and frequent progress communication to execs.
• Oversaw the creation of a visual target movie demonstrating gameplay.Gameplay Producer - SimCity (1+ year)
• Pulled the project out of Pre-production into Production by scoping, adding quality approval processes and getting the content pipeline flowing.

US

• Hellgate: London
• Led 16 engineers, designers and producers focused on gameplay and enabled us to launch an original IP under difficult funding challenges.
• Engineered and personally owned several major engineering systems: animation, particles, skills, weapons, AI, combat, physics, and ragdoll physics.
• Designed, implemented and tuned all 80 player skills, over 100 unique weapons and over 30 monsters.
• Started and oversaw the growth of the DX9/DX10 PC graphics engine – one of the first DirectX 10 games made.
• Helped establish and execute partnerships with Microsoft and NVidia to gain millions of dollars in development funds and some amazing graphics effects like full-3D GPU simulated smoke.

• Lead Engineer - Diablo 3
• Set creative direction for the initial gameplay designs including character class selection, new multiplayer gameplay modes and new PvP mechanics.
• Created cutting-edge tools for live-editing of game content with minimal work for data definitions.
• Demonstrated and represented the project in bi-monthly company-wide meetings until departure of the entire Diablo leadership team to found Flagship Studios.Project Lead - Diablo 2: Lord of Destruction
• Oversaw development of the fastest selling expansion pack world-wide for that time with an 87 Metacritic rating.
• Owned the overall direction, day-to-day coordination and a large portion of the engineering & design for the project.