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Jim Buck

Twitchy Thumbs Entertainment is a California S Corp game developer, founded by Jim Buck. Jim started at Sony Interactive Studios/989 Studios/SCEA (1996) and founded DepthQ, Inc. (2000) and Twitchy Thumbs Entertainment (2005), in addition to working at Amazon Games Studio (2016-2019). His resume and employment-based credits:

Rally Cross, CART World Series, and 3Xtreme PS1

Twisted Metal III and Twisted Metal 4 PS1 (lead)

NFL Gameday/NCAA GameBreaker 2004 PS2

NBA '05/NBA '06/NBA '07/NBA '08/NBA '09 The Inside PSP

The Grand Tour Game (2019) PS4/XB1

Clients

Sony Online Entertainment

... Leathernecks PC

Surrogate Interactive

... Brutal ragdoll physics R&D PC

... NeoSport Racing League PSP

... Unnamed project PS3

Insomniac Games

... Rally Cross physics presentation

... Unnamed production tool PC

Rockstar New England

... Bully: Scholarship Edition Xbox 360

Narcissistic Studios

... Unannounced game

Four Door Lemon

... Clever Kids: Pirates/Farmyard Fun/Pet Store/Creepy Crawlies DS, Wii, PC

... Aqualux PC

... The Perfect Tree ger, jpn

... Super Laser Racer fre, ita, ger, spa

Black Lab Games

... Star Hammer Tactics fre, ita, ger, spa, rus, dut

SpiderMonk Entertainment

... Unreleased game Xbox 360

... One Idea PC

Demiurge Studios

... Unannounced game

Fire Hose Games

... Slam Bolt Scrappers PC

Incinerator Studios

... Unreleased game Xbox 360

National Oilwell Varco

... Undisclosed project PC

... Heavy Pets/Strike/Ink/Xmas, Uncharted, Star Wars fre, ita, ger, spa

... Phineas and Ferb/The Nightmare Before Christmas/Iron Man (for Disney), Need for Speed: Most Wanted (for EA), Diablo III (for Blizzard Entertainment) PS3 themes

... Axis Game Factory PC/Mac/Linux

Empty Clip Studios

... Chocolatier DS

... BIT.TRIP CORE/VOID/FATE/FLUX (for Gaijin Games) PC/Mac

Subatomic Studios

... Fieldrunners PSP, iPad/Android, PC/Mac

... TinkerBox (for Autodesk) iOS

... Fieldrunners 2 PSVita

Choice Provisions

... THE BIT.TRIP PS4/PS3(cancelled)/PSVita

... Batman - The Telltale Series Windows 10

... Snapshot PSVita/PS3 (cancelled)

Pixelmage Games

... Hero's Song PC (cancelled; started up Amazon Games Studio, San Diego)

Development and porting services, using our multi-platform TTElib to reduce schedule (simplifies PSN features, automatically handles many TRCs, etc.):

PlayStation (including cert/TRCs/FQA): PlayStation 4/PSVR, PSVita, PlayStation 3
Microsoft platforms: PC (Win32), Xbox 360
Apple platforms: Mac OS X, iOS
Graphics: OpenGL (ES), DirectX, OGRE (team member), Gamebryo, Cocos2d-x
Audio: FMOD
Networking: RakNet
Distribution platforms: Steam, PSN, iOS App Store, Mac App Store, Humble Bundle
Localization for most common languages

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