Ian Thomas

I’m currently working at Double Eleven to create a console version of Frozen Synapse called Frozen Synapse: Tactics.

A new LittleBigPlanet game with reworked gameplay to suit the new Playstation Vita.

A children’s Cthulhu parody as picture-book written by me and illustrated by Adam Bolton. Published by Archaia in 2012.

I worked on very early versions of this title when I was on the LEGO Systems team – TT’s first purely LEGO-based license.

I headed up one of the writing teams for Empire, a new large-scale live-action system from Profound Decisions.

My fourth published console game, released in November 2011.

SavageMedia’s first full length feature, written by myself and Bill Thomas.

My third console game, released in May 2011.

I was one of a small number of writers creating content for the acclaimed browser game Echo Bazaar.

I was the primary Lego Systems coder during much of The Clone Wars.

A third promotional short for the TLSFx pyrotechnics company, set in Stalingrad during WWII.

My first major console game, working for Traveller’s Tales.

In 2010, a group of us accidentally won the Grand Prize in the Venice Carnevale.

A 90-minute feature script, written to commission.

I created a commercial point-and-click adventure engine in the style of The Secret of Monkey Island.

I led development of over 40 titles, gaining two BAFTA nominations and two Celtic Media Festival awards.

Promotional trailer for a modern-day cop/vampire thriller.

I created an automated build system, remotely publishing to different platforms.

A short steampunk story set during the Chartist risings.

My feature script, Reign, was optioned by a production company in 2008.

A second promotional short for the TLSFx pyrotechnics company.

As development lead and CTO, I created the development frameworks at Awen.

A piratical promotional short for the company Profound Decisions.

A ridiculous parody of a childrens’ book, written to annoy grandparents everywhere…

A science-fiction short featuring a lot of pyrotechnics in a very tight space.

An advert for the pyrotechnics company TLSFx.

Our first short — a horrific secret deep in an abandoned Victorian ironworks.

“Captain Dick Britton in: The Voice of the Seraph” — a pulp action adventure set in the 1930s.

A pitch document for an Arthurian TV series.

A time-twisting interactive event set in a legendary lost land.

An interactive event set in an analogue of heroic Ireland.

A fantasy event based around the defense of a mountain pass and the solving of an ancient riddle.

The first interactive TV programme of its kind. Technically excellent — shame about the format.

Slaght Maand, “Slaughter Month”, was a fantasy horror event set in an analogue of medieval Wales.

As CTA at DITG, I designed and developed an end-to-end system for authoring live interactive TV applications.

Sky Online’s web/mobile fantasy football game.

My first project as lead developer was the official Fireman Sam CD-ROM.