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Tom 'T-Bomb' Oliver

I love maths and coding, 3Blue1Brown and Sebastian League are two of my most watched YouTube channels. Being a dad is amazing and I love playing with my son and going on adventures with him and my wife. Boxing has always had a part of my life. I’m not very good at it but I do enjoy it and really miss the fight club that Uppers, Stoney, and I had going for a while on an unused floor of an office building.

_Favourite Game

Tomb Raider on PS1

_Favourite Book

Count of Monte Cristo (he just goes so over the top with revenge) or any Jack Reacher (they're all the same but they're all awesome).

_Currently Learning

ImGui for making trace analysis tools.

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Earliest gaming memory?

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Buggy Boy on the Atari ST

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What was the game that triggered you looking at games as a career?

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Tomb Raider. The incredible sense of adventure that could be created really inspired me.

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What did you study at School or Uni that you feel was valuable for a career in games?

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Maths at school, Maths at Uni, Maths for PhD. Definitely find having the ability to break problems down into small chunks useful. Don't worry about the programming, that's normally the easy bit, the hard bit is normally figuring out what problem you're trying to solve.

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Game that has inspired you the most?

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Last of Us. It’s just a beautifully made piece of software.

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What is the first game you worked on?

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Star Wars Rogue One VR Mission.

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Games you’re the proudest to have worked on?

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Battlefield V: Firestorm. The streaming tech and networking really pushed the game engine. NFS Unbound. Really performant and stable.

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If you weren't making games?

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I’d be a trophy husband, or a model, or a fighter pilot. I don’t know, something cool.

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Top 3 games of all time?

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#1 - Tomb Raider #2 - Syndicate Wars #3 - Final Fantasy VII

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Hardest game boss?

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Sephiroph from Final Fantasy VII. Unbeatable without Knights of the Round summon, for which you need to breed a Golden Chocobo!