1. Toby Gard was born on 8 June 1972 and is an English video game designer and consultant.
11 Facts About Toby Gard
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Toby Gard is the co-creator of Lara Croft, the fictional protagonist of the video game franchise Tomb Raider.
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Toby Gard was born on 8 June 1972 in Chelmsford, Essex, England.
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Toby Gard began his career in videogames in 1994 when he was hired by Core Design to work on the game BC Racers.
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Toby Gard's vision for Lara was "a female character who was a heroine, you know, cool, collected, in control, that sort of thing" and that "it was never the intention to create some kind of 'Page 3' girl to star in Tomb Raider".
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Toby Gard had been headhunted by other software companies including Interplay and Shiny Entertainment but did not take up their offers of employment.
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For Tomb Raider: Underworld, Toby Gard's work included co-writing the story, directing the cinematics, voice direction, motion capture direction, and directing the European TV advert for the game.
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From 2012 to 2014 Toby Gard was the game director for Yaiba: Ninja Gaiden Z at Spark Unlimited.
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In 2014 Toby Gard founded a new studio called Tangentlemen, where he would work as director on Playstation VR title Here They Lie.
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Toby Gard has been the owner of Cathuria Games since 2019, where he worked on indie game Dream Cycle.
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Toby Gard listed Ultima Underworld: The Stygian Abyss, EverQuest, Super Mario 64, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Full Throttle, Star Wars: X-Wing, Power Stone, Stunt Island, Spindizzy, and Super Bomberman as his favourite games in 2000.