13 Facts About Tom Hall

Tom Hall is an American game designer best known for his work with id Software on titles such as Doom and Commander Keen.

Tom Hall served as creative director and designer there, working on games such as the Commander Keen series, Wolfenstein 3D, Spear of Destiny, and Doom.

Tom Hall was the game designer for Rise of the Triad, produced Terminal Velocity, and helped in varying degrees on Duke Nukem II and Duke Nukem 3D as well.

Tom Hall worked on the Prey engine until August 12,1996, when he left Apogee.

Tom Hall co-founded Ion Storm with John Romero, where he produced Anachronox.

Tom Hall produced the 2000 Game of the Year, Deus Ex, in which Hall voiced several characters.

Tom Hall left KingsIsle Entertainment and joined Loot Drop on January 1,2011.

Tom Hall later tried to crowdfund another game on Kickstarter, Worlds of Wander, which was unsuccessful in reaching its goal.

Tom Hall is the creator of the Dopefish, a green, dimwitted fish in Commander Keen episode IV.

Tom Hall provided the following voices for the computer role-playing game Deus Ex: Morpheus, a sentient AI; Howard Strong, a ruthless and cruel MJ12 operative; and Walton Simons, the nano-augmented Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

Tom Hall voiced the project director in Deus Ex: Invisible War opening cutscene, and PAL-18, Councilman Willis, Dr Hush-Hush and Eddie the Chew in Anachronox.

Tom Hall was the voice and likeness of the main antagonist of Rise of the Triad, El Oscuro, voiced the Death Monk enemies from the game, and earlier he voiced some of the characters in Wolfenstein 3D, including the female character Gretel Grosse.

Tom Hall was married for eighteen years to Terri Hall, who died on May 2,2021.