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These days Tim leads Kabam, mobile game publisher. Our recent hits include Marvel: Contest of Champions, Fast & Furious, and our award winning Transformers: Forged to Fight. Tim Fields has been making games and software professionally since 1995. He has been involved with numerous small developers, as well as Microsoft, Accolade, Electronic Arts, Activision, Capcom, and other major publishers. Franchises Tim has been involved with in one way or another: Marvel, Transformers, Jack Nicklaus Golf, Brute Force, Freelancer, SSX, Need for Speed, Fast & Furious, Syndicate, Halo, Call of Duty, Crimson Alliance, and a few others. Tim is always interested in visiting with other professional game developers about their projects. Goals: Keep building great teams and making great games that hundreds of millions of people around the world love to play. Keep having fun doing it. Tim Loves: RPGs, Action Games, FPS Games, Racing games, Strategy Games, and Drinking Games. Specialties: Studio building, game design, inspiring teams, driving revenue, production, game marketing, publishing, PR, contract negotiation, team and studio management, public speaking, and writing.
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Kabam
Company bio
Kabam is a world leader of developing entertaining, immersive, and highly social multiplayer games. They merge consumer behavior with the art of game design to create experiences that are enjoyed by millions of players across the globe. Each game has raised the benchmark in mobile gaming, bringing high-quality graphics, next-generation technology and revolutionary gameplay to the palm of player’s hands. Kabam has partnered with leading entertainment brands like Disney, Hasbro and Universal to create mobile games based on some of the world’s most iconic franchises. Kabam’s games have generated hundreds of millions of downloads including Marvel Contest of Champions, Disney Mirrorverse, Shop Titans, Transformers: Forged to Fight, Mini Guns, Fast & Furious 6: The Game, Fast & Furious: Legacy and Blastron. Many of these games have also received multiple awards such as Apple’s Editor’s Choice and Google Play’s Best Game of the Year. Founded in 2006, Kabam has studios and offices in Vancouver, Montreal, Charlottetown, San Francisco and Austin. Kabam is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Netmarble Games.