Tobias Heussner

Tobias Heussner is a Christian, Game Content/Narrative Designer, and Producer. His areas of expertise are Game Content Design (including Narrative Design, Quest/Mission Design and Level Design), Game System Design (including Game Mechanic Design, Combat Design and Encounter Design) and Game Production. He has been involved in professional game development for over 20 years, started game development during his High School years, worked in different design and management roles and has been involved in the development of over 25 different, published titles, including top-sellers like Paws&Claws: Pet Vet , the AAA-RPG The Dark Eye – Drakensang and the AAA-Browser-MMO Action-RPG Drakensang Online .

He was also a Co-Coordinator for the Game Writing Tutorial at GDC Online and is the current chair of IGDA Special Interest Group: Game Writing.

Together with Ann Lemay, Toiya K. Finley, and Jennifer Hepler, he wrote the Game Narrative Toolbox, a guide to game writing which was published by FocalPress in 2015. In 2019, he published the sequel called the Advanced Game Narrative Toolbox.

In his spare time, besides spending time with his family and developing games, he enjoys writing screenplays and novels. He studied Screenwriting at the UCLA Extension, took classes in Computer Science at the Humboldt and Free University of Berlin, and holds a BSc Open (Hons) with a focus on writing and management from The Open University.

You can find more information on his personal website: http://www.theussner.com.