Last Online: 3/1/10

Jeff Tunnell

Will work for games...

Currently I am a co-founder of PushButton Labs where we are making an Open Source Flash game engine (PushButton Engine) and Flash games like Grunts: Skirmish. Before that I was co-founder of GarageGames and, before that, Dynamix a development studio for Sierra/Vivendi/Universal. Director, designer, or producer of over 70 titles including The Incredible Machine, Starsiege: Tribes, Trophy Bass, and the 3D Ultra line of family products. Here is my Wikipedia entry that I didn\\\'t even know existed until I needed to fill out this profile. Also, here is my Mobygames profile as well. I\\\'m a little older than the me in that picture now:)

Be sure to check out my blog, Make It Big In Games for more information about how to make a living in this crazy business. If you think it sounds cool to make games, then be sure to check out GarageGames or PushButton Engine to get the technology you need to make your game.

Outside of games I am in the process of starting Furrer Farms, a 200 acre organic farm. For fun, I ride motorcycles (Yamaha FZ-1 and YZ250F), play in a rock band Procrastinators, lift Olympic weights, and spend a lot of time with my family. You can see my personal blog at jefftunnell .

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Make great games... have fun!

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by Sean Sullivan 1242407190

You have a 3DO? Man, I don\'t know if I have ever seen one in real life! What games do you play on it?

by Kevin Ryan 1189792684

Danger, Will Robinson! Physics!

by Trevor Lanz 1177385781

First of all, I'm not in your list of Awesome People, which is clearly an oversight :)

Second of all, RE: Warcraft 2, and playing it before multiplayer was cool, I can't think of anything in my life before or since that seemed cooler than playing WC 2 online. Good memories. Seeing as how my computer couldn't even come close to running it, I would travel to the inner bowels of Springfield to where I worked just to use that rawkin' 486 and it's 14.4 modem. Good times.

Speaking of rawkin', weren't we supposed to make some noise soon?

by Living Dead Boy 1170893041

Woah, I may have to rethink that, these prizes are getting serious, and I admit I'm still eligible in one great category that appeals to me. This hamster will be back on the treadmill before this thing winds up :)

by r0cko 1170824013

The Incredible Machine rocked!

by Living Dead Boy 1170785974

Thanks for the incentive, but I'd only feel like a hamster on a treadmill if I cared about that ;)

I don't even know what the algorithm for that is, exp sank like a rock after I was idle a bit, lol.

by Dustin Evans 1170225440

Hey Jeff, you said something about being a GGE section leader a few days ago, and I haven't gotten a reply. Any new info on that?

by allisontunnell 1168580760

If i could take away my kudo I would.
Reason for Taking Away Kudo: I am not in your top 8. Tear.

by Marek Eby 1168313153

Oh wow! Now I find out on wikipedia that Jeff T. worked on the original Red Baron game! Is this true?

Just to fill you in, around the tender age of 5-6 I would play red baron every day for hours!

by Justin DuJardin 1168193145

Oh yes, I did it. I updated my profile, *high-five*!

by Drew Sikora 1166305601

Hey Jeff! Hope you have a safe and happy holiday - look forward to seeing you again in March at GDC

by Tim Aste 1165523548

I just rated you a 5 for a quality profile.:)

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by Kevin Erkelenz 1165481562

Hey there Mr. Tunnel, how are you?

by Kevin Ryan 1165019010

This Jeff guy looks kinda old. I don't know if we should let old geezers on this site or not.

by Tim Aste 1164995395

It's all in good fun. :)

by Tim Aste 1164840918

Jeff are you rating me down? Revenge ratings. Ouch!

by Kevin Erkelenz 1164762148

I guess I have to rewrite the description, it was just a list of features that are planned to be in the game, I already started development but I am not far at all, I just passed the planning stage and am on my way with the first prototype for LRX.

by Tom Spilman 1164682092

Thanks for the comment! Torsion very soon... final beta release in a few days and then it's gold.

And a game... yea... tell me about it. That's our primary objective for 2007... ship a freaking game already! ;)

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by Kevin Erkelenz 1164679964

Is my dream coming true? Did I just got offered an Internship at GG? And are we both really in Torrance/Los Angeles/Redondo Beach?

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by Kevin Erkelenz 1164675056

I hope we can get off to a better start now!

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by Kevin Erkelenz 1164616655

My rating is slowly going up! YAY!

by Kevin Erkelenz 1164572794

I'm sorry for the friend-whoring, I just didnt realize that I can comment people without being their friends (got so used to MySpace)...

Im starting over now.

by Tim Aste 1164500634

This site is kicking ass. Still has some networking stuff to be worked on I think, but the ability to add games was really easy. I wish there was a way to link to off-site images and embed with word-wrap a bit better for the game pages though.

by Thomas Buscaglia 1164448468

The other day I was talking with Garney about great adventure games on GTalk and found out that you worked on Willy Beamish.. I almost shat myself. I used to play that game a ton with my dad when I was a pup. Anyway, I wanted to say thanks for the good memories.