Name: Robin Walker
Notable creations and work: Team Fortress, Team Fortress 2 and Team Fortress Classic
Born: He doesn't like to talk about that
Died: Still Alive
Creator of Team Fortress, one of the most famous class-shooting game ever.
He and his team (John Cook and Ian Caughley) worked on the extremely popular game Doom. He co-wrote the game and created Team Fortress.
He joined Valve in 2003 and worked in Team Fortress 2, released in the end of 2007.
Inspired by the drawings of marketing, advertises and sports drawings from the end of century 19 and beggining of century 20, Team Fortress 2 has a very fun design, mixing violence with cartoon. The class based system balance the game (Valve worked extremely in it). The game became a very interesting and fun game to play.
Team Fortress's community is well known for being one of the most active and influential, Valve shows (acording to the posts on the TF2 blog) to admire and accept many times fans contribution.
Robin Walker posts many entries on TF2 blog.
Team Fortress 2 he was the Designer, Executive Producer. The Team Fortress Classic classifies him only as the designer.
Games Credited
Robin Walker was credited in many other games:
Left 4 Dead 2 (2009), Valve Corporation
Zeno Clash (2009), ACE Team Software
Left 4 Dead (2008), Valve Corporation
Half-Life 2: Episode Two (2007), Buka Entertainment
The Orange Box (2007), Valve Corporation
Portal (2007), Buka Entertainment
Half-Life 2: Episode One (2006), Valve Corporation
Narbacular Drop (2005), DigiPen (USA) Corp.
Counter-Strike: Condition Zero (2004), Sierra Entertainment, Inc.
Counter-Strike: Source (2004), Valve Corporation
Half-Life 2 (2004), Valve Corporation
Half-Life (2001), Sierra On-Line, Inc.
Half-Life: Blue Shift (2001), Sierra On-Line, Inc.
Gunman Chronicles (2000), Sierra On-Line, Inc.
Half-Life: Counter-Strike (2000), Sierra On-Line, Inc.
Half-Life (Game of the Year Edition) (1999), Sierra On-Line, Inc.
Half-Life: Opposing Force (1999), Sierra On-Line, Inc.
Half-Life (1998), Sierra On-Line, Inc.
Police Quest: SWAT 2 (1998), Sierra On-Line, Inc.