Hal Boma
Hal Bouma is a video game programmer who joined Bethesda Softworks in 1995 and helped program The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall, later working on Morrowind; he is now President of Netwisp, Inc.
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Sep 29, 2026
Hal BomaGUEST
And the good thing is, is, you know, I saw, you know, me being just out of college, writing some, working some tools in DOS that felt like I could accomplish.
Hal BomaGUEST
But then after I got the tool working, because, you know, it seemed like all the other programmers had left.
Hal BomaGUEST
So it was Julian and I at that point and Corb doing the 3D engine, um, So I got the tool working for Don and everybody.
Hal BomaGUEST
And then so I was like, okay, how do we get these blocks in the town? And he was like, well, you need to do that.
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JoeHOST
How, what about you? When did you realize that it had become very successful?