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Greetings!

My name is Willem, and I'm an indie game developer. Since a very young age I've always been fascinated by creating games. Everytime I discovered one of my childhood games had a level editor, I became extremely excited and jumped right into it to let loose my creativity.

Some time ago I recently started my first big project (described here). "Archraven Development and Games" is the name of my indie game studio, and under this name I will publish everything I make.

Projects

Currently, I am working on a single big hobby project: My own self-made platformer game:

About me

My name is Willem, and I am born and live in the Netherlands. I have a wife and two children.

As a young child (back in the DOS and Windows 3.11 era), I was already very interested in creating levels for games I played. Later on, I learned my first programming language: Qbasic and made some games in that as well.

Later on, I learned Web Development at school, and after some internships at some companies, my programming skills started to become decent. After working at a couple of more companies, I mastered programming in web dev languages like PHP, Javascript etc.

Ultimately, game design is still in my heart, and I decided to learn Unity and start my first big dream project. I am still working on it nearly every day, and I immensely enjoy it.

Hobbies and interests

Like mentioned above, the design of my own game is my primary hobby. It gives my great joy to work on it, because when it's all done, it would give me absolute happiness to see people having a blast playing my game.

Other than game development, I'm also really into Japan. Literally everything about the country is something I love: The culture, the people, the temples and shrines, manga and anime, the food, etc. I went to Japan twice; by myself for five weeks and another three weeks for my honeymoon. I now really miss it. Absolutely the best holidays I ever had!

Despite me living as a caveman (sitting in front of a computer all day), I'm actually really into travelling and exploring the nature (I love being outside in general). If time and money allows it, I'd love to travel more to see more of this amazing world we live in.