Kenn Hoekstra (born October 1, 1973), is a former video game developer who worked as an executive producer for the game development company

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. He attempted to for
Category 6 Studios
after leaving

, but was unable to secure funding. He is probably best known for his game development, marketing and promotional work as a Level Designer and Project Administrator at

Raven Software Raven Software Corporation is an American video game developer based in Wisconsin and founded in 1990. In 1997, Raven made an exclusive publishing deal with Activision and was subsequently acquired by them. After the acquisition, many of the st ...

in Middleton,

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where he worked from February, 1997 to June, 2004. While employed at Raven Software, Hoekstra wrote a series of articles for

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and two anthology books aimed at helping aspiring game developers break into game development. Additionally, he maintains a section of hi
personal website
dedicated t

Hoekstra studied at the

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. Kenn joine
PopHorror
in August, 2016 and works for the horror website as a writer and associate editor.

References

External links

Personal WebsiteKenn Hoekstra's Developer Profile
at

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fan website created by Kenn Hoekstra
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Hoekstra, Kenn 1973 births American video game designers Living people University of Wisconsin–Whitewater alumni