About me

One-man company. Full-size games.

Hi, I’m the developer behind RETRIEBEAR. I studied technical computer science (Technische Informatik) and business informatics (Wirtschaftsinformatik) in Berlin, Germany with a major focus on AI development. I’ve been working in IT for over ten years now — grown from engineer to tech lead, currently working as a Lead Cloud Architect.

Games are where all of that comes together. The same mindset I bring to every domain — research it thoroughly, optimise it, execute with discipline — applied to the thing I love most: building worlds that are hopefully fun and immersive.

The name? Part golden retriever enthusiasm, part bear stubbornness. Both halves are in the logo — and honestly, both are needed to finish a game alone.

Origin story

It started with a SNES

I’ve been gaming since I was approximately five, when my dad brought home a SNES. Illusion of Time was my favourite game — I replayed it until I knew every screen by heart, and it was very challenging game! Somewhere along the way I quietly decided that games are the best thing people can make. First it was consoles. Then with the age of 10 I started building the first computers with my dad.

The PC years pulled me toward strategy games and shooters — build orders, very extensive aim training, the whole competitive rabbit hole — and a real gamer was born. That mix still shapes everything I build today: console-warm worlds with PC-sharp systems.

And the consoles never stopped: I’ve owned every generation since that first SNES and still have them all. From Playstation, Nintendo or Xbox. It’s a working museum one shelf away from my desk and the best reference library a game developer could ask for.

Milestones

The road so far

Age Five — Dad brings home a SNES. Illusion of Time takes over. Street Fighter. Even the old NHL Games were amazing.
Age Ten — Building first computers with my dad and then I learned to love of computers
Studies — Technische Informatik & Wirtschaftsinformatik in Berlin, Germany, focus on AI development.
10+ years in IT — From an engineer to tech lead. Learned how real systems survive real users.
2023+ — First game prototypes instead of sleep. My first trys working on and learning an Game-Engine with Godot 4.0 released.
Today — Lead Cloud Architect by day, RETRIEBEAR by night. Best of both worlds, minus the free evenings.
The pipeline — STACKROW in development, WORLDBREAKER in prototype, and a third project that is still classified.
Next — first public build of STACKROW. Wishlist, playtest, tell me everything I got wrong.