Thor
Jason "Thor" Hall is the CEO of Pirate Software and the lead writer and developer of their games.
Titles
- Gandalf of games
- Father of ferrets
- Goblin king
- Lord of the PiratePass
- Hacker of the powerplants
- the son of community's father (yearjoy)
- the twitcher who dressed as a hotdog
- Thorporate Overlord
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 Amazon Games, 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. Thor also miraculously has a birthday everyday, scientists are still trying to figure out how this is possible.
At Pirate Software
The Breakfast Era
While working at Amazon Games, Thor has been developing indie games on the side. His first project, Champions of Breakfast, was a small shoot 'em up 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 an 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 is 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.
He has gained popularity in the creator space is shown by the colossal accumulation of over 1.3 Million subscribers in just 4 short months via the use of shorts and streaming.
Thor broke the Twitch Hype Train record 4 times:
The First Time on the 13/12/23 at 179% past level 55
The Second time on the 15/12/23 at 512% past level 55
The Third time on the 29/12/23 at 1906% past level 55
And the Fourth time on the 1/4/24 at 47% past level 105
Consequently, he won the Streamer Awards 2024 as "Best Software and Game Development Streamer".
The Future
After finishing Heartbound, Thor plans to work on a game called Kill the Moon (an action rogue-lite), as well as an as-of-yet-unnamed rhythm game. There is not much information available around any of these future projects.
Pets
- Buisness of ferrets
- Madagascar hissing cockroaches
- Giant wolf spider
- Meatball
Anatomical oddities
Regular Phrases
- "Hello. My name is Thor. I've been in the gaming industry for 20 years. ..."
- "Goddamn you!"
- "It's really interesting."
- "[THING] is/are the worst." (usually in conjunction with things Thor hates)
- "The thing is is..."
- "Hafting" (instead of "having")
- "Thank you for the 100 bits, and how dare you"
- "Goblins!"
- "What's wrong with you?"
- "Why are you like this?"
- "Who made you this way?"
- "You could be any other way!"
- "That's deeply horrifying!"
- "What in the name of Science!?"
- "In any case, ... Before I forget, I wanted to tell you: [someone] smells. Unfortunately. But it's true. Bye"
- "Eat my entire ass"
Gaming
Top 4 Games
These are games that Thor values highly, especially for their emotional impact, but not exclusively.
- Outer Wilds (art piece)
- Secret of Mana (nostalgia for old console games, esp. late 90's)
- Tunic (love letter to old hack and slash games)
- Beginner's Guide (for people who make stuff for others)
Streaming Games
See here.
Preferences
Love-Hate
- Internet
- Goblins
Loves
- Bugs (Both Insects/Entomology bugs and Software bugs, especially finding and fixing the latter)
- Puzzles
- Cryptography
- Burritos
- Salted Black Licorice
- Turkish Delight
- Fermentation
- Mushrooms
- Moons over My Hammy
- Tasteful noods (Ramen especially)
- Excel Spreadsheets
- Twitchy Looter-Shooters (but not Twitch)
- No Man's Sky (but not Sean Murray)
- His own voice
Hates
- 7
- Ads
- Balding (the process of losing Hair)
- Being called "James"
- Being called "Jason"
- Being wet
- Blockchains in Games
- Boomer screenshots
- Chat M.D. (except when it helps them diagnose his nightshade/bell-pepper allergy.)
- Communal peeling
- Couples that Share Details of Their Relationship
- Dognuts
- Gamer Fuel / Gamer Supps
- Having a mustache
- Java
- Matthew Patrick from The Game Theorists
- Minecraft
- Minecraft mods
- Misused Words, including:
- Based
- Bespoke
- Cyber
- Onions
- Parasites
- Raid Shadow Legends
- Scrum
- Sean Murray
- Todd Howard
- Todd Man's Sky (aka Starfield)
- Twitch
- Unity
- The leaker who leaked the early 500 twitch staff layoff info.
- Big Macs
No strong feelings
- Zultralord (unknown)