European - German - "Hessebub" - Gamer - Artist
Name – Louis-Frédéric Oscar Wolf-Gero von Gersdorff
Date of Birth – 1. October 1996
Place of Birth – Frankfurt am Main
Place of Residence – Schöneck (MKK)
Degree – Game Design & Management (B.A)
Starting Small - Dreaming Big - Working Hard
I finished secondary school in 2016 at the Anna-Schmidt-Schule in Frankfurt at Main. Unsure about which career path I should take I applyed for the next thing that interested me: a degree in journalism, which didnt work out because of the sheer amount of applicants at the time, so to not waste my time doing nothing at all I did start studying history and history of arts at the Johannes Gutenberg-University in Mainz. Realising that there was actually something I really wanted to do since my early years in secondary school I dropped out of my history studies and applied at the HS Fresenius in Wiesbaden, where I graduated in August 2023 in Game Design & Management.
Work, Work!
My debut in the grand world of game developers and designers I had with a small student project we called Swift Space, a comic-style space shooter for mobile phones, which got published by Student Publishing in September 2023.
I also did contribute to some projects of the BestChefs!-Magazine in the form of mascotts and logos.
The current project I am taking on is a Tabletop-Roleplaying-Game or a Pen&Paper of my very own universe with a unique set of rules. A huge task, considering that I am doing the work for three on this project all by myself.
Hobbies
Stories, plots and turning points were and still are the stuff that fills my evenings. I allways loved reading about great adventures and discovered the various forms storytelling can take besides books and movies: videogames. Starting with EA’s Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone I developed a taste for RPGs in general while saving the M&M’s secret formula, learning from Peter Lustig about the world, rebelling in Albion, picking flowers in Skyrim and thwarting the grand design in Baldurs Gate 3.
Aside from that I do enjoy cooking and baking, playing Pen&Paper and writing stories.
Trivia
Yes: My surname is that of a noble family originating from Upper Silesia. In the family association of this very family (Familienverband derer von Gersdorff e.V.) I am the youth representative. As such I try to get the young people in my family excited about their history.