My name is Jeroen Bloemhoff. I'm 23 years old, live in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, and a graduate game designer from IGAD (NHTV Breda). I love playing games for as long as I can remember, and making the transition from consumer to creator has been a dream come true for me. I graduated in narrative design & concept development, as these are my favorite things in game design, but I am well-rounded in other fields with game design as well. To me there is nothing more satisfying as a game design to see a game transform from words on paper to a wonderful experience many people can enjoy.
Games are certainly my biggest passion, and I enjoy games that make me excited in one way or another. Be it the great level design in Rayman Origins, the storytelling and puzzles in Portal, the ever innovating champion design of League of Legends or the polished gameplay of Super Meat Boy, they are all games that I love as a player.
As a designer, though, I take great motivation and inspiration from them, and strife to create games that take those aspects and make them better. To have other people experience the same excitement I have. To make them play.
While games are my biggest passion they do not take up my entire time:
Games are certainly my biggest passion, and I enjoy games that make me excited in one way or another. Be it the great level design in Rayman Origins, the storytelling and puzzles in Portal, the ever innovating champion design of League of Legends or the polished gameplay of Super Meat Boy, they are all games that I love as a player.
As a designer, though, I take great motivation and inspiration from them, and strife to create games that take those aspects and make them better. To have other people experience the same excitement I have. To make them play.
While games are my biggest passion they do not take up my entire time:
- I like music a lot, whether it's just listening to it in my room, playing guitar myself, going to a concert or festival, or discussing it: music lives.
- I love the theater, the whole atmosphere it has and the excitement people feel, both when on and off the stage.
- I also love to go snowboarding and get active in the great outdoors.
- I have a great interest in psychology and how the human mind works, and I try to learn as much about it as possible, so I can apply it to my game design.