Dan Hett
Design Director at d3t
Manchester, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolDan Hett is a Studio Design Director based in Manchester with 11 years crafting narrative-driven AAA games, interactive experiences and creative technology projects. He combines leadership across design and narrative with hands-on game design, having progressed rapidly through director roles at d3t and earlier narrative work at FISHLABS and the BBC. A writer and creative technologist by training (MA in Creative Writing, BA in Design & Visual Arts), he bridges storytelling and systems to shape player experience and studio practice. His background as a freelance game developer and academic fellow reflects a curiosity-driven practice that blends art, words and experimental noise into polished commercial products. Notably, he brings both production-scale direction and grassroots indie sensibilities, excelling at translating bold narrative ideas into shipped games.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Design & Visual Arts, Honours, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Design & Visual Arts, Honours at Liverpool John Moores UniversityMaster of Arts - MA, Creative Writing, Distinction, Master of Arts - MA, Creative Writing, Distinction at The Manchester Metropolitan University
Github Skills (49)
rendering9
renderer8
webgl7
javascript7
glsl7
lime7
neko7
visuals7
azerothcore7
rendering-engine6
data-visualization6
golang6
flash6
canvas6
threejs6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
danhett/thelosslevels
Mar 2018 - Apr 2018
Contributions:47 commits, 1 push in 13 days
danhett/ee-client
Jun 2017 - Jun 2018
Contributions:17 commits, 15 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
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