Tom Dowd

Current

• Assistant Professor at Columbia College Chicago
• StoryHost at Castle Marrach/Skotos Inc.

Past

• Lead Game Designer at High Voltage Software
• Lead Game Designer at Day:1:Studios
• Lead Game Designer at Fasa Interactive

• Line Developer at FASA Corporation

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Education

• New York Institute of Technology-Old Westbury

Connections

222 connections

Industry

Computer Games

Websites

• Castle Marrach

Tom Dowd’s Summary

MechAssault (Xbox/Xbox Live) - Lead Designer
Castle Marrach (online RPG) - Lead Designer/Writer/Producer
Duelmasters Limted Edition (PS2) - Lead Designer
MechCommander (PC) - Lead Designer
Axis & Allies: Iron Blitz (PC) - Designer
Leisure Suite Larry: Magna Cum Laude (PS2, PC, Xbox) - Designer
Shadowrun RPG (FASA Corporation) - Co-creator, writer, developer
Vampire: the Masquerade (White Wolf Publishing) - contributing author
Earthdawn RPG (FASA Corporation) - contributing author
The Whispering Vault RPG (Pariah Press) - contributing author

Tom Dowd’s Specialties:

game and story development, fiction writing, screen writing

Tom Dowd’s Experience

• Assistant Professor

  Columbia College Chicago

  (Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

  August 2006 — Present (3 years 4 months)

  Full-time faculty in the Interactive Arts and Media Game Design major.
  http://game.colum.edu. Coordinator of the Game Development concentration. Primary instructor of the year-long senior capstone Game Studio class.

• StoryHost

  Castle Marrach/Skotos Inc.

  (Privately Held; Computer Games industry)

  January 2005 — Present (4 years 11 months)

  http://www.skotos.net/games/marrach

• Lead Game Designer

  High Voltage Software

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Games industry)

  April 2003 — November 2005 (2 years 8 months)

• Lead Game Designer

  Day:1:Studios

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Games industry)

  February 1999 — January 2003 (4 years )

  Previously Meyer-Glass Interactive.

• Lead Game Designer

  Fasa Interactive

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Games industry)

  June 1995 — January 1999 (3 years 8 months)

  Lead Designer on MechCommander

• Line Developer

  FASA Corporation

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Publishing industry)

  September 1989 — June 1995 (5 years 10 months)

  Line Developer/Editor for the Shadowrun RPG
  Co-creator Shadowrun RPG

Tom Dowd’s Education

• New York Institute of Technology-Old Westbury

  MA , Communication Arts , 1984 — 1989

Additional Information

Tom Dowd’s Websites:

• Castle Marrach

Tom Dowd’s Interests:

interactive storytelling, game development, fiction writing, movies and television, computer technology, instruction and academia, computer graphics

Tom Dowd’s Groups:

IGDA

•    International Game Developers Association
•    Game Developers
•    NYIT Alumni
•    Game Writing

Tom Dowd’s Honors:

Guest Speaker, Gaming Vision China (2007, Beijing Film Academy)

Tom Dowd’s Contact Settings

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