Dan Hett | |
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Occupation(s) | digital artist and writer |
Website | danhett |
Dan Hett is a digital artist, writer and games designer from Manchester, UK.[1] He is also a member of the Algorave live coding electronic music and visuals movement, performing under the name Rituals.[2]
Hett's writing is influenced by the death of his younger brother Martyn Hett in the 2017 Manchester Arena bombing.[3] He wrote a trilogy of games about the experience: c ya laterrrr, The Loss Levels and Sorry to Bother You. Hett is known for short introspective autobiographical narrative games and interactive fiction, which explore radicalisation, extremism and identity politics in the UK.[4][5] His work The Loss Levels has been exhibited at Now Play This festival in London and Sheffield DocFest.[6][7]
Until 2016 Hett worked in the BBC Children's and R&D departments, where he developed apps and digital games across a range of languages and platforms. He was technical lead on the CBeebies Storytime app, and also designed and built the core of the BBC's first cross-platform multiplayer games API.[8]
He founded a small independent games studio called PASSENGER GAMES in 2018, which produced the game Closed Hands.[9]
In 2021 Hett became Creative Technologist at the School of Digital Arts, Manchester Metropolitan University.[10]