Dan Hett | |
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 Hett speaking at an online event in 2022. | |
| Occupation | 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 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, he also designed and built the core of the BBC’s first cross-platform multiplayer games API. [8]
He founded a small independent games studio 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]
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