About: Character

I'm the Game Director at Hiroba Games. I hold game direction across our projects and stay in production: art direction, technical art, VFX, shaders, post-process and game design.

I got into the industry through 3D and technical art. In 2024 I co-founded a small studio, Nuke the Boss, and joined Pendulum Interactive as a 3D and technical artist. For two years I built modular environments, master shaders, foliage and lighting, and learned to make them run well. That work still shapes how I direct. I build what I specify, so my direction stays inside what the engine can deliver.

I also study players. My MA thesis at Bahçeşehir University asked how experience with roguelikes changes the way players feel about competence, autonomy and failure. I use it when I pace difficulty, and when I design failure that makes people want another run.

Before games, I studied architecture at Bilkent University. It taught me to think about how people move through a space, where their attention goes, and how a place explains itself without instructions. Games ask the same questions, with a faster feedback loop.

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