Tommy Refenes was born on the battlefield on June 14th, 1981 to his mother, a USMC Sergent, and his father, an Abrams-M1 Tank. Tommy was trained in CQC and learned to survive on his own as a mercenary. After stealing a truckload of Packard Bell computers back in the mid 90's, Tommy accidentally turned one on and instantly knew everything about programming. In May 2006 Tommy founded PillowFort and created Goo!, which earned an IGF Technical Excellence nomination, grand prize in the 2008 Intel Game Demo contest for Best Threaded Game and finished 3rd for Best Game on Intel Graphics.