Past Projects
ASCENDERS COMBAT DEMO
GAME DESIGNER
Game Designer (Contractor) @ LFG (2022)
Get ready for Ascenders Combat Demo, an adrenaline-fueled battle against robotic foes! Collect orbs, score points, and dominate the live leaderboard. Discover hidden orb containers for massive rewards. Show off your skills and conquer the competition in this thrilling challenge!
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In this project, I worked as a contractor in the game designer role in a small team where I was responsible for the general game design, combat design, enemy design and managing the project.
Heroes of arcana
GAME & NARRATIVE DESIGNER
Game Designer (Contractor) @ Keypoint (2022)
In this co-op Roguelite deck and dice builder, up to three players must fight their way through the dangerous Towers of Wants, Cups, Swords, and Pentacles to become the prophesized Heroes of Arcana.
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In this project, I was responsible for various tasks such as ability and hero design, balancing, UI & UX, narrative designs, and writing.
Wishlist it on Steam!
WARHAMMER 40.000: SHOOTAS, BLOOD & TEEF
GAME DESIGNER INTERN
Game Design Internship @ Rogueside (2021)
From the developers of the Guns, Gore and Cannoli franchise comes a new 2D run & gun platformer: Warhammer 40,000: Shootas, Blood & TEEF! Spearhead an Ork invasion, destroy the hive city, and kill your warboss! ‘Ere we go!
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During my internship at Rogueside, I wore many different hats to ensure that the game felt powerful, as befits the IP of Warhammer 40,000.
At Rogueside, my roles included Game Design and Level Design, and I took on responsibilities for improving the user experience by adding and tweaking the VFX, Gore, SFX, and other gameplay enhancements.
Lastly, I helped restructure and organize the project and set up pipelines where they were missing.
Play it on Steam!
P.A.I.N.T.
Game Designer
One-year student project at IGAD (2020)
Gather up to three friends and get ready to blast the corporations with your powerful paint blasters. Leave no tile unpainted!
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In this third-person, online cooperative shooter, I was responsible for managing the design team and overseeing the design of the project.
I have also been hands-on in developing and implementing the UI, guns, enemies, and have worked as a Level Designer in the early stages of the project to help define the world.
Play it on Steam!
ZEIL
Game Designer
One-year personal project next to IGAD (2020)
This sea-faring adventure game for mobile I developed together with another developer in half a year’s time next to our time at IGAD.
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In this project, I was responsible for the gameplay design, quests, and the creation of 3D low-poly assets. All the assets in the game are created with free software such as Blender and Gimp.
Awards: Top 4 games on the White Nights Conference.
LUMBERJACKED
Game & NARRATIVE Designer
6-month student project at IGAD (2019)
In Lumberjacked, players unleash the hilariously wild art of flinging everyday objects, including friends-turned-unwitting-projectiles and the comically snoozing foes, to conquer puzzles and bop down adversaries.
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In the third year of IGAD, we created Lumberjacked. During this project, I took up various tasks and was flexible during development. During pre-production, my main role as a game designer was to ensure that the co-op gameplay stayed light-hearted and fun.
After pre-production, I was responsible for further developing the world and the narrative of the world. I helped set the tone of the world and its characters through personas and wrote the main story and dialogues. I also helped out with additional level design and narrative design by telling stories through set-dressing.
Play it on Itch.io!
Dev room breda
organizer
Games Industry Networking Event (2019+)
I am one of the two organizers of Dev Room. A game industry networking event at the MotMot gallery in Breda.
With Dev Room we want to bring game creators and enthusiasts together in a relaxed atmosphere. Visitors can network, showcase their games and play games that are still in development or have just been released.
It’s a great and fun opportunity for developers to showcase and playtest games, all while enjoying music and a drink.
About
Hi! I’m Roy Bomhof, a game designer and alumnus of the International Game Architecture & Design (IGAD) program at Breda University of Applied Sciences (BUAS).
My background in the modding scene paved the way for me to pursue game development professionally as a game designer. I consider myself a multidisciplinary designer who enjoys learning new systems and tools—and even creating them myself. With four years of professional experience, I’ve taken on flexible roles across various disciplines, including technical design, combat, UI/UX, and narrative design. I also dabble in the magical world of 3D character animation and have a background in graphic design.
Lastly, I enjoy creating my own tabletop systems and developing content for them. With over 600 hours of game master experience, I think I’ve earned the right to say, “You can certainly try.”
Game Jams
GAme jam: SERIOUS BUSINESS
GAME DESIGNER
Global Game Jam 2022
In this game jam, you are a very serious employee of a very serious company and have to fulfill your part of the corporate machine that you are part of. In this funny physics-based puzzle, players will have to use their head to solve all the puzzles!
GAme jam: CATMODEUS
GAME DESIGNER
2020 GMTK Game Jam: Out Of Control
In this game jam, you play as a satanic cat on a Roomba, who uses telekinetic powers to clean up the room by throwing the right objects into the pit, straight to hell.
GAme jam: Dithercat
Game designer
2019 Yogscast Jingle Jam
In this game jam, you play as a cat, who collects food for its incompetent owners. The more food you eat, the more bouncy (and chonky) you become.
Don’t get too fat, or you’ll bounce off into space!
GAME JAM: UNSCREWED
GAME DESIGNER
Global Game Jam 2019
In this game jam, we made a Cat and Mouse game where both players play on the same keyboard and use screen-peaking as a core mechanic.
Awards: On-site Audience Award