Tim Samoff
Founder Lead Tinkerer at Circuitous FX
Moorpark, California, United States
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Top SchoolTim Samoff is an award-winning game producer, media designer, and founder with 11+ years of leadership experience delivering hundreds of shipped titles across games, interactive media, and film. He specializes in running cross-disciplinary, industry-modeled production pipelines—aligning design, engineering, UX, and live ops—to shepherd projects from prototype to commercial release. Technically fluent, he prototypes and debugs alongside engineers and has hands-on experience with version control and multiple game engines. As an educator and program director he built two accredited game design programs and mentored students now at Riot, Blizzard, Epic, and Nintendo, consistently earning top course evaluations. Currently designing hand-wired audio effects at Circuitous FX, he combines creative craft with systems thinking—an unusual blend of maker mentality and academic-institution scale production.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
MFA, Interactive Design & Game Development, MFA, Interactive Design & Game Development at Savannah College of Art and DesignBFA, Experimental Animation, BFA, Experimental Animation at California Institute of the ArtsAA, Liberal Arts, AA, Liberal Arts at Moorpark CollegeDiploma, High School Shenanigans, Diploma, High School Shenanigans at Westlake High School
English
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Github Skills (16)
creator10
handheld10
gamemaker9
drag9
drag-and-drop9
2d-game8
mobile6
css6
deque6
firefox6
scroll6
javascript6
jquery6
css-animations6
2d6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
timsamoff/ChromaSync
Dec 2023 - Jan 2024
A simple game about color matching using voice commands.
Contributions:98 PRs, 71 pushes, 71 branches in 1 month
timsamoff/HMLabs
Apr 2017 - Mar 2025
Contributions:14 PRs, 27 pushes, 8 branches in 8 years
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