Jay Van Hutten
Senior Lead Designer at Nixxes Software BV
Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
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Top SchoolJay Van Hutten is a Senior Lead Designer with a decade in the games industry and seven years focused on game and level design, currently shaping interactive experiences at Nixxes Software BV. He combines a formal honours education in Game Design & Development from HKU with hands-on progression from intern to lead roles at Two Tribes, Sticky Studios, and Nixxes, delivering immersive, visually driven levels. Passionate about the intersection of technology and creativity, he excels at coordinating multidisciplinary teams to turn technical constraints into polished, player-first design. Known for elevating immersion and aesthetics, he brings a practical eye for systems-level design that balances artistic ambition with production realities.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor (with honours), Game Design & Development, Bachelor (with honours), Game Design & Development at HKU (Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht)
English, Dutch, Norwegian
Github Skills (22)
gameboy-advance10
gameboy10
nintendo-ds9
apple29
megadrive9
fltk8
genesis8
sega8
tilemap7
map-editor7
tilesets6
tiled6
libretro6
kicad6
twine5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
djedditt/tiled-to-gba-export
Dec 2020 - May 2021
Tiled extension/export plugin for exporting tilemaps to GBA source files
Contributions:1 review, 10 commits, 2 PRs in 5 months
fltkexportmap-editortiledtileset
djedditt/tonc
Jan 2024 - Dec 2025
GBA Programming Tutorial (Community Edition)
Contributions:27 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 11 months
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