Author Tom Brien (tinyBuild)

Tom Brien (tinyBuild)

Creative Director

Hello I'm Tom at tinyBuild, I handle all creative decisions in publishing and promoting our games, and I'm responsible for the artwork, design and sometimes even coding on games we develop in-house!

tinyBuild did the console port for Landfall Games' ClusterTruck; a game game that depends on one or two hundred RigidBodys, MeshColliders and RayCasts behaving correctly at 60fps in HD. The game is out on Steam... Read More...

Cleaning Up The Menu Space in SpeedRunners

Tom Brien (tinyBuild)

Art

If there's anything I'm the best at, in our company, it's avoiding work! SpeedRunners is an Early Access game that updates with new features, levels and options every couple weeks. Development priority can s... Read More...

Maintaining A Feeling Of Momentum In SpeedRunners

Tom Brien (tinyBuild)

Art

SpeedRunners is a competitive platformer game on Steam and Xbox One. The game is to out-run your opponents, and a central theme of the controls and level design is to always keep up momentum! There are no harsh... Read More...

Fixing the DISC ROOM design

The challenges of designing games for Pillo

How I made Circles feels intuitive without any text or tutorial

Creating Realistic Fun in Stable Orbit

A Handcrafted Feel: ‘Unexplored’ Explores Cyclic Dungeon Generation

VR Dioramas: The Illusionist’s Way of Telling Stories

Animated Cover: Better Game Design Using the Scientific Method

Designing A Believable Homemade Flamethrower For The Last of Us

How Firewatch translated 2D concept art into a 3D open world

Generating art: Turbocharge your workflow

What A Difference A Hat Makes in Boss 101

Keeping 2D Herald afloat by adding 3D

The Dream That Inspired The Nightmarish Graphics of The Intruder

Making Achievements: The Design and Art Process

A Handcrafted Feel: 'Unexplored' Explores Cyclic Dungeon Generation

How We Cheated Physics To Avoid Players Feeling Cheated

How not to lose your body parts in a networked game

Cleaning Up Clustertruck

Predicting Players: Calculated Level Design in Action Henk

Fast AI for turn-based action game Space Grunts

Keeping Up — A Smarter Camera For Munch Time 2

The Assassin’s Creed game that needed more than just a score

Creating the Dynamic Sound Design of Future Unfolding

Making the sound of Elite: Dangerous (VIDEO)

The Touching Story Behind Killzone 3’s Beautiful Menu Music

"You stand no chance", Says Vlambeer's Rami Ismail (VIDEO)

Letters from the 19th century. A $300 worldwide marketing campaign

From Cardiac Arrest to Cat Success — Remarkable Story About a Game With Famous Cats (VIDEO)

SteamSpy’s analysis of the Indiepocalypse: ‘It’s nothing new’ (VIDEO)

Extending the lifetime of Hidden Object game Home Makeover

33 on Metacritic: Why My Game Failed (VIDEO)

Football Mafia is a shameless experiment in addiction

Cleaning Up Clustertruck

Cleaning Up The Menu Space in SpeedRunners

Maintaining A Feeling Of Momentum In SpeedRunners