14 Facts About Tim Cain

Timothy Cain is an American video game developer and YouTuber best known as the creator, producer, lead programmer and one of the main designers of the 1997 video game Fallout.

Tim Cain attended college at the University of Virginia, followed by graduate school in California.

Tim Cain laid out the basic concept based on the GURPS system and began programming the isometric game engine.

Tim Cain took over the producer role from Thomas R Decker who had to supervise multiple other projects at the time.

Tim Cain was among the founders of Troika Games in 1998.

Tim Cain worked on a post-apocalyptic roleplay game for which he could not convince any publisher to fund.

Tim Cain joined Carbine Studios when it was formed in 2005 as its programming director working on a fantasy MMO game for NCSoft.

Tim Cain was promoted to design director October 7,2008.

In 2011, Tim Cain joined Obsidian Entertainment as senior programmer.

Tim Cain worked on Pillars of Eternity, which was funded through Kickstarter.

Since June 2020, Cain is no longer employed by Obsidian as a full time employee, but still works for them on the sequel to The Outer Worlds as well as for two other companies on a contract basis.

Tim Cain is affected by hereditary color blindness, stating in a Gamasutra interview that he "[can now] see less than half the spectrum of colors".

Tim Cain enjoys cooking, particularly Japanese and Chinese cuisine, and his favorite dishes are garlic chicken fried rice and chicken karaage.

Tim Cain married his husband Robert Land on July 14,2011.