He played role-playing games with fellow New Zealander Chris Butcher, who later became the Technical Director at Bungie working on Halo and Destiny.
[6] Hall started video game development on an Amiga personal computer that his parents purchased him as a child.
[4] Hall served as a commissioned officer in the Royal New Zealand Air Force for five years, completing a degree at the University of Otago under a Defense Scholarship.
[4] After leaving the Air Force, Hall was employed as a producer at Sidhe Interactive in Wellington, New Zealand,[4] and worked on Speed Racer: The Videogame.
After the success of the mod Hall started work at Bohemia in the position of Project Lead of the standalone version of DayZ.
[12] In November 2014, Hall left Bohemia Interactive to found New Zealand game studio, RocketWerkz,[13] and announced the debut title Ion at E3 2015.