Thor

Thor

Jason "Thor" Hall is the CEO of Pirate Software and the lead writer and developer of their games.

Early life

Before starting his own studio, Thor has worked at Blizzard Entertainment as an offensive security specialist and at Amazon Games Studio as a Python developer. During his time at AGS, he was bought out by the US government to use his hacking skills to help secure power plants in the United States. Thor has attended DEF CON multiple times and has won three "Black Badgers", an indicator of high knowledge and proficiency in the hacking field.

At Pirate Software

The Breakfast Era

While working at AGS, Thor has been developing indie games on the side. His first project, Champions of Breakfast, was a small STG developed in GameMaker and published in just under a month. While it has not received tremendous success, it allowed Thor to acquire the necessary skills to develop and self-publish a video game, as well as learn the engine he chose to work with. During this time, Thor has also acquired Shaye, who would go on to work on Pirate Software's future projects as well.

The Heartbound Era

After finishing work on Champions of Breakfast, Thor has started work on a massive RPG known as Heartbound, which was a project he dreamt of making ever since he was a child. The original draft for Heartbound was a "choose-your-own-adventure" book, but it evolved into a more complete video game over time. Heartbound was also made in GameMaker, and, as of writing, is still being developed, available only in Early Access.

At one point, jacksepticeye has played an early build of Heartbound [1], which has brought Thor enough income to be able to quit corporate jobs and focus entirely on his work at Pirate Software.

The Future

After finishing Heartbound, Thor plans to work on a game called Kill the Moon, as well as an as-of-yet-unnamed rhythm game. There is not much information available around any of these future projects.

Pets

• Bunch of ferrets
• Madagascar hissing cockroaches
• Giant wolf spider
• A cat, named Meatball (usually shortened to Meat)
• Potentially more

Regular Phrases

• "Hello. My name is Thor. I've been in the gaming industry for 16 years. ..."
• "Goddamn you!"
• "It's really interesting."
• "[THING] is/are the worst." (usually in conjunction with things thor hates)
• "Goblins!"
• "What's wrong with you?"
• "Why are you like this?"
• "You could be any other way!"

Preferences

Love-Hate

• Bugs (Insects/Entomology: Loves; Software bug: Hates, especially in other peoples code's, even more in his own)
• Internet
• Goblins
• No Man's Sky (After release: Hated; Currently: Loves)

Loves

• Burritos
• Licorice
• Fermentation
• Mushrooms
• Tasteful noods
• Excel Spreadsheets
• Zultralord
• Twitchy Looter-Shooters

Hates

• Being called "Jason"
• Being called "James"
• Gamer Fuel
• Ads
• Bitcoins
• Scrum
• Todd Howard
• Sean Murray
• Bespoke
• Misused Words
• Cyber
• Having a moustache
• Being bald
• Being wet 🥵
• MatPat from The Game Theorists
• Parasites
• Java
• Minecraft
• Minecraft mods
• Twitch
• Communal peeling
• Dognuts
• Chat M.D. (except when it helps them diagnose his nightshade/bellpepper allergy.)