Tom Hall
American video game designerWikipedia
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Sep 22, 2026
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55:30PaulHOST
I appreciate it.
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55:32PaulHOST
So I'm here with Tom Hall, one of the original designers of Doom ID Software.
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55:37PaulHOST
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55:37Tom HallGUEST
Software.
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61:27PaulHOST
And so I'd like to just ask you, what are you up to today? Where can we find you? What are you doing? What's your future projects planning?
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61:35Tom HallGUEST
Well, yeah.
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61:35Tom HallGUEST
Well, go to That Tom Hall everywhere.
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61:38Tom HallGUEST
I have a newsletter if you go to my site, thattomhall.com. And I'm going to be starting up a YouTube channel soon to talk about old memories and my thoughts on creativity and stuff like that.
DOOM, Draculas, and The Colour Purple.
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47:02MaximilianPANELIST
That was the pitch for it, you know, 3D graphics on the internet, job done, user-created content, all that.
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47:09MaximilianPANELIST
And this is the first time that the id Software co-founders have all been in the same room together since they stopped firing each other, right? So they fired Tom Hall during the development of Doom, then they fired John Romero after Quake shipped.
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47:21MaximilianPANELIST
No bad blood.
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47:22MaximilianPANELIST
30 years on, they can actually all get together and have a bit of a celebration and reminisce.