Henry Hoffman
Game Director of Paper Trail
Sam Riley
- Rob Leane
What are your early gaming memories?
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I’ve been playing games since I was five. I used to sneak out of bed in the middle of the night and play the Nintendo Entertainment System. I’d stay up all night, then I’d have to go to school the next day and pretend that I’d gone to sleep.
How did you become a game developer?
From the ages of about nine until 16, I made hundreds of games in my spare time, using game-making tools that you could download for free or, at the time, get on the cover of magazines. I experimented for all those years and then I went to university to study video games, art and design. I started my first studio when I was at university.
Where are you based?
We’re based in Norwich. Me and my brother, Fred, founded our studio, Newfangled Games, together. We grew up in rural Suffolk in this little town
called Halesworth.
What advice would you give others interested in gaming as a career?
Take part in “game jams”, these little competitions that are either held online or in person, where groups of individuals get together and make games in a very short space of time. Nearly every game that I’ve made started life as a game jam.
How would you describe your game?
It’s an origami-inspired, top-down adventure game. The levels are these two-dimensional pieces of paper, and there’s a level on the front and a level on the back. You can physically fold those levels over in order to merge the two worlds.
How does it feel to be Bafta-nominated?
Absolutely insane. We’re a team of five, but we started as a team of two, so we feel very much out of our depth. But Bafta has been supportive from the very start.
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Rob LeaneGaming Editor
Rob Leane is the Gaming Editor at Radio Times, overseeing our coverage of the biggest games on PlayStation, Xbox, Switch, PC, mobile and VR. Rob works across our website, social media accounts and video channels, as well as producing our weekly gaming newsletter. He has previously worked at Den of Geek, Stealth Optional and Dennis Publishing.
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