About
Howdy! I’m Toby Hazes, a freelance designer. I’ve graduated in 2009 at the Utrecht School of the Arts (HKU) in Game Design and Development.
Professional
I’m a game designer specializing as a narrative designer, an emergent field in the game industry. Game design from a narrative viewpoint. As it’s stated on the Narrative Design Exploratorium: A narrative designer seeks to craft systems which deliver narremes to a player. (narremes as opposed to the mechanic designer’s ludemes)
Next to game design and narrative design skills, I’m also fairly proficient with scripting and prototyping. I have experience with Unreal Engine, XNA, and Flash.
Personal
Besides games, my foremost interests are history, culture and traveling. I love to explore exotic places. My favorite spot so far is Venice, city of water, with its countless masks. I also like to read a healthy amount about such topics; world history, mythology, folklore and religion from all corners of the world.
If you would like to know anything else, feel free to drop me a line!