XFunc_About

XFunc_ is the portfolio site of Tim Carter, a freelance game designer, producer and consultant living in Toronto, Canada.

As a game designer Tim specializes in:

• Core concept design

• User interface design

• Narrative design

• Balance design

• Level design

• Serious games or simulations for disaster response training

• Military- & sci-fi-themed entertainment games

Tim works on game projects requiring strong, realistic content. Tim hails from the film industry where he wrote and directed short narrative films, documentaries, and screenplays. A gamer for decades, Tim has done game design professionally since the mid-1990s, eventually working for BreakAway (in Baltimore), Amaze Entertainment and other companies. Tim’s credits include core design on Code Orange (a 3D mass casualty incident serious game) and design on Frontlines: Fuel of War (Kaos Studios/THQ), and consulting game design on Pandemic Response (Simquest and the US Office of the Secretary of Defense). Tim has taught game business, game narrative design and filmmaking at the University of Ontario, Information Technology. He was also CEO of Core Talent Games Ltd for four years, a company that packages game projects for early financing.