CV | Heiko Ihde

Description

For more than 24 years I have been working in the video game industry. I started my career as 3D-Artist with the dutch game development company DAVILEX in Mülheim (Ruhr) where we worked on titles like USA Racer. After that I worked as a Level- and Character-Designer for the project Moorhuhn-Kart (Crazy Chicken Kart) for Phenomedia.

After studying Medieninformatik (FH) (Media & IT) at TFH-Berlin I was able to help germanys biggest MMO publisher Frogster (later bought by Gameforge) as Senior Manager (Media Production) to develop graphics and product websites with a team I was the lead of.
Meanwhile I wrote a book about the OpenSource 3D Software Blender for Addison Wesley. After that two Video-Trainings for Video2Brain followed.

After that I worked as a professional lecturer at GamesAcademy where I was helping upcoming artists, game designers, game programmers and producers to get started with their career.

I also developed and published my own (HTC Vive - Virtual Reality) Game on Steam recently. The name is VR: Vacate the Room. After that I got funding for creating the successor VR2: Vacate 2 Rooms and Founded the company hOSHI UG with which I created 5 games in total and published 8 games.

My last position was 3D/VR/AR Prototyping Architect for Amazon Web Services where I created 3d, VR and AR prototypes with customers from different industries all over EMEA.

Currently I am a Lecturer for Game Development and Game Design at the MD.H (Mediadesign Hochschule) in Berlin. In the meantime I'm still doing contract work for hOSHI UG. For example as Lead Game Designer for SyncReality.

What I do

Scripting / Programming
Photoshopping
Web Design
Game Design
Video Trainings
Books
Consulting
Presentations
Lectures
...

Work experience

Addison Wesley (1 Book)
Book author
Blender - Ihr Einstieg in die professionelle 3D-Grafik und Animation

Diplomica (1 Book)
Book author
Shader in GLSL (OpenGL Shading Language)

Video2Brain (2 Video-Trainings)
Video-Trainer
Blender 2.5
Texturen erzeugen mit (und ohne) Filter Forge

SyncReality (2022 - today)
Lead Game Designer
A Virtual Reality Escape Room Project

Mediadesign Hochschule (2021 - today)
Lecturer
Game Design, Programming, Arts, Spatial (AR/VR), ...

Amazon Web Services (2018 - 2021)
VR / AR Prototyping Architect
3D, Virtual Reality & Augmented Reality Apps in Amazon Sumerian

hOSHI UG (haftungsbeschränkt) (2017 - today)
Founder & Allrounder
Creator of the VR Games and Experiences: VR: Vacate the Room, VR2: Vacate 2 Rooms, VRemin, The Quest for the BIG KEY, ...

Games Academy (2013 - 2018)
Professional Lecturer (Photoshop, Unity, Blender, SVN, ...)
Courses (Conception and Execution): Scripting, Revision Control Software, Photoshop Basics, Programming Basics, Project Board Games, Maths & Physics

Stryking (2013)
Senior Web-Designer/ -Developer (HTML, CSS, JS, PHP, Edge Animate, Photoshop, Premiere)
Execution of various design, web, print and video projects
nspyre Website

Frogster
Gameforge (2009 - 2013)
Senior Manager Media Production (HTML, CSS, JS, JQuery, PHP, Photoshop, Premiere)
Execution of various design, web, print and video projects
Tera, Aion, Runes of Magic, Mythos, Eligium, ... (Web Templates)

Sprylab (2009)
Graphical Artist (HTML, CSS, JS, PHP)
Orgavision Website (Drupal Template)

Bild T-Online (2006 - 2007)
Graphical Artist (HTML, CSS, JS)
Execution of various design, web, print and video projects

Q-Fish (2001 - 2002)
3D-, Character- & Level-Designer (3DS MAX, Photoshop, Game Engines)
Moorhuhn Kart

Davilex (2000 - 2001)
3D- & Level-Designer (3DS MAX, Photoshop, Game Engines)
Autobahn Raser III, Europa Raser, USA Racer, ...

Courses I teached

3d Engine Programming
Level Design in 3d Engines
Game Design / Boardgames
Programming Basics
Scripting
Photoshop
Blender
Texture Creation
Virtual Reality
HTML / (S)CSS / JS
Prototyping
Presentations
Web Programming Advanced
Math in Games
Physics in Games
Game Jam
...

Education

Microsoft (2015)
DEV204x: Programming with C#
DEV208x: Introduction to jQuery

W3C (2015)
HTML5.1x: Web Design Fundamentals (Part 1)

Harvard (2014)
CS50x: Introduction to Computer Science

Linux Foundation (2014)
LFS101x: Introduction to Linux

TFH-Berlin / Beuth Hochschule für Technik Berlin (2004 - 2009)
Diplom Informatiker (FH) - Medieninformatik
Shader mit GLSL (Book)

FOG Göttingen (2003 - 2004)
Fachhochschulreife

Software

A list of programs and tools I have use in my profession. Just recent and active developed tools. Outdated software got sorted out already.
2D Software:
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Illustrator
Adobe Flash
Affinity Photo
Affinity Designer
Affinity Publisher
Filter Forge
Pencil (Mockup)
3D Software:
Blender
3D Studio Max
Game Design:
Articy:Draft
Video:
Adobe Premiere
Adobe After Effects
DaVinci Resolve
Hitfilm Pro
Audio:
Adobe Audition
FL Studio
Development:
Unity
Godot
Babylon.js
Visual Studio Code
Notepad++
Drupal
Visual Studio
Netbeans IDE
Eclipse
Filemaker
Sumerian (Amazon aws)
Clickteam Fusion
Office:
Word
Excel
Power Point
Open Office / Libre Office
OS:
Windows
Linux
Mac

Programming Languages and more

A list of programming, scripting and other languages I used during my career as a developer.

Web:
HTML
CSS
SASS/SCSS
JS
JQuery
PHP
SQL
Game:
GLSL (Shader)
Lua (PSP, LÖVE)
JavaScript (Babylon)
C# (Unity/XNA/MOGRE)
Java
OpenGL
XML
Ruby

Games I have worked on

VR2: Vacate 2 Rooms
The Quest for the BIG KEY
hOSHIs Elektronauts
VRemin (A Virtual Theremin)
VR: Vacate the Room
Autobahn Raser III - Die Polizei schlägt zurück
Europa Raser
USA Raser
Moorhuhn Kart
RoM - Runes of Magic
Tera
AION
Bounty Bay Online
Mythos
Eligium
RaiderZ
Cold Space

Screenshots

A few images of my game and web projects.

Interesting facts

Written my first program with 6 years (C16 BASIC)
Finished Games: ~500
Youtuber at TVdioten