Torben Ratzlaff
Co-Founder & Art Director at Hopeful Games
Hamburg, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolTorben Ratzlaff is a designer-developer and co-founder with a decade of experience building playful, human-centered digital and analog experiences from Hamburg. As Co-Founder and Art Director of Hopeful Games and founder of Shapes and Dreams, he ships indie board and mobile games that prioritize social interaction and thoughtful design. He pairs hands-on front-end development leadership at HypnoBox with deep craft in game design, vector art and UI/UX, and has taught game art and Illustrator at HTK. Torben’s portfolio spans commercial apps, Kickstarter-driven tabletop publishing and ecological food app work, reflecting a consistent interest in sustainability and knowledge-sharing. Notably, he blends art direction and code—often handling concept through implementation himself—making him as comfortable prototyping game mechanics as designing polished interfaces.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Zertifikat, Communication Design, 1,0, Zertifikat, Communication Design, 1,0 at HTK Hamburger Technische Kunstschule
Github Skills (7)
skeletal-animation10
runtimes10
2d10
spine10
animation10
game-dev10
sdk5
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (2)
torbenratzlaff/spine-runtimes
Aug 2015 - Apr 2017
Contributions:5 commits, 5 pushes, 3 tags in 1 year 8 months
corona-sdkruntimesdkoptimizedspine
EsotericSoftware/spine-runtimes
Aug 2015 - Sep 2017
2D skeletal animation runtimes for Spine.
Contributions:1 PR, 3 comments, 5 issues in 2 years 1 month
skeletal-animationanimationgamedevgame-devruntimes
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