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To look behind the scenes is every person's dream. You hear about "backstage passes" and "behind the scenes" documentaries, and people are always willing to pay hundreds of dollars more for these perks. The editorial staff at Ten Ton Hammer feels exactly the same way, so we devised a set of developer questionnaires that we've been methodically sending out to the various MMO teams to see how their past has influenced their present experiences. In this week's developer profile, we sat down with Lineage 2's producer, Tim Tan, to see what made him into the leading MMO developer that he is today!

Tim: My background is actually in electrical engineering with a minor in computer science. That sort of schooling helps, but when I got my degree I had no idea that I was going to be doing gaming in the future.

However, the degree did give me the sort of problem solving skills necessary to figure out ways to get around common problems. It especially helped in the quality assurance field because you're looking for defects and issues. You really have to know how to reproduce the steps to get to the problem and possibly fix it.

• Developer Profile #5: Lineage 2 Producer Tim Tan
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