Bertine Van Hövell Tot Westerflier is a senior game writer and narrative designer with over a decade of experience crafting stories for both AAA and indie projects, and eight years actively shipping games and prototypes. As founder of Lost again she builds playful, experimental interactive experiences—ranging from award-nominated short games and AR/serious games to custom web-based engines used in museum and educational projects. She represents independent creators on the board of the Dutch Games Association, advocating for small studios and indie voices across the Netherlands. Comfortable dabbling in code to make storytelling systems more expressive, she also consults on bizdev and narrative tech for organizations like the W3C. Known for blending journalistic precision with whimsical design (her Fanficmaker uses a homegrown semantics engine), she’s currently exploring a sci-fi noir point-and-click and several unannounced titles.
8 years of coding experience
Journalism, Journalism at Fontys University of Applied Sciences
Foreign Reporting, Foreign Reporting at University of Helsinki
Chinese language, Chinese language at Guangxi Normal University
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Bertine Van Hövell Tot Westerflier - Division Manager Indie at Dutch Games Association