Tom Spilman
With over 12 years of experience in small business and 10 years in professional software development, Tom brings a track record of successful projects to Sickhead Games, LLC, where he oversees the business side of things and provides technological direction. Prior to co-founding Sickhead with artist Russell Fincher, Tom was the Lead Programmer on the Core Technology Team at Motorsports Simulations, Inc. In less than three years at Motorsims he worked on four retail games including the hit racing simulation NHRA Drag Racing 2 and NHRA Drag Racing Top Fuel Thunder.
(A development screenshot of NHRA TFT on a triple head Matrox Parhelia)Aside from his work on little projects like upgrading the precipitation in TSE and work on several inhouse game prototypes, Tom is currently focused on completion of Torsion, a TorqueScript IDE for release in late 2006.
Our latest release is the TGB Adventure Kit available at GG!
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GG plan updates...
First i'd like to thank the Torque community... we couldn't have gotten this far with our dream without all of you. I cannot count the times that a resource, plan, or forum post has gotten us out of a jam in development. The success of both our Adventure Kit and Torsion is largely due to the ecosy ...
New Torsion out today. As some of you may have noticed this one was up to the wire with the previous release expiring about 5 minutes ago (for those of you in CST).This release mostly focused on the left side of the window... the project tree. As part of that the following got done:You can now tog ...
I put out a new update to Torsion today. The build released two weeks ago ended up with a serious bug which would cause the code completion thread to run the CPU usage up to 100%. Please update as soon as possible.Aside from this critical fix, a few more minor changes made it into this new build.. ...
First off I'm at the GDC this week. If anyone wants to meet up just drop me a name and phone number to tom AT sickheadgames DOT com and I'll give you a call back. I hope to spend some time with the GG guys talking Torsion and checking out all the cool new stuff they're about to unleash upon us. = ...
