David "Talin" Joiner (born June 1958) is an American game programmer, who created games such as The Faery Tale Adventure and Inherit the Earth, contributed audio to Defender of the Crown II (1993), engineering for SimCity 4: Rush Hour (2003), and The Sims 2: University (2005).
[3][2][4] Joiner learned Assembler, Fortran, and COBOL programming between 1976 and 1980 at the Strategic Air Command headquarters in Omaha, Nebraska.
He then became part of IntelliCreations, and then Mindscape, then begun working on the Amiga 1000 and with MicroIllusions, which started out from a computer store in San Fernando Valley.
[2] According to The Digital Antiquarian, "The seeds of MicroIllusions were planted during one day’s idle conversation when Steinert complained to David Joiner that, while the Amiga supposedly had speech synthesis built into its operating system, he had never actually heard his machines talk; [] ..
When the program sold well, Steinert decided to get into Amiga software development in earnest with the help of Joiner.