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Dan Hett
Hett speaking at an online event in 2022.
Occupation(s)	digital artist and writer
Website	danhett.com

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]

Career

Hett's writing is influenced by the death of his younger brother Martyn Hett in the 2017 Manchester Arena bombing.^[3] He wrote a trilogy of games about the experience: c ya laterrrr, The Loss Levels and Sorry to Bother You. Hett 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, and also designed and built the core of the BBC's first cross-platform multiplayer games API.^[8]

He founded a small independent games studio called 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]

Awards

2015 Broadcast Digital Awards Winner of Best Digital Children's Content for CBeebies Storytime^[11]
2015 British Academy of Film and Television Arts Winner of Children's Interactive award for The Dumping Ground^[12]
2020 New Media Writing Prize winner for c ya laterrrr^[13]^[14]^[15]

Works

Interactive Fiction

c ya laterrrr, 2017
The Loss Levels, 2018
Sorry To Bother You, 2018
Closed Hands, 2021

References

^ "Dan Hett | ELMCIP". elmcip.net. Retrieved 29 January 2022.
^ "Rituals". Algorave. 5 July 2016. Retrieved 29 January 2022.
^ "Games console: Dan Hett, the indie game designer pouring his grief into interactive art". the Guardian. 26 April 2018. Retrieved 29 January 2022.
^ "Dan Hett's video games take on grief, radicalisation and ethical journalism". The Big Issue. 7 November 2019. Retrieved 29 January 2022.
^ Purchese, Robert (8 May 2021). "Understanding Closed Hands, a game about reactions to a terrible event". Eurogamer. Retrieved 29 January 2022.
^ "Exploring virtual worlds together: Alternate Realities at Sheffield Doc/Fest 2018 | Sight & Sound". British Film Institute. Retrieved 29 January 2022.
^ "My brother Martyn Hett died in the Manchester bombing - this is why I made a video game about it". inews.co.uk. 18 June 2018. Retrieved 29 January 2022.
^ "Dan Hett - BBC R&D". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 29 January 2022.
^ "Closed Hands: the novel-sized game exploring extremism". The Face. Retrieved 29 January 2022.
^ "Manchester writer, artist and games developer joins School of Digital Arts - School of Digital Arts (SODA) – Manchester Metropolitan University". 23 September 2021. Retrieved 29 January 2022.
^ "Winners 2015". Broadcast Digital Awards. Retrieved 29 January 2022.
^ "British Academy Children's Awards Winners Announced". www.bafta.org. 22 November 2015. Retrieved 29 January 2022.
^ "Archive". New Media Writing Prize. Retrieved 29 January 2022.
^ "Interview with Main Prize winner Dan Hett". New Media Writing Prize. Retrieved 29 January 2022.
^ "New Media Writing Prize 2020 | ELMCIP". elmcip.net. Retrieved 29 January 2022.

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