Toby Gard

Quick Facts

Full Name	Toby Gard
Occupation	Video Game Designer
Date Of Birth	Jun 8, 1972(1972-06-08)
Age	52
Birthplace	Chelmsford
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	England
Horoscope	Gemini

Toby Gard Biography

Toby Gard is one of the most popular and richest Video Game Designer who was born on June 8, 1972 in Chelmsford, England, United Kingdom.

Originally employed at Core Design, he was part of the team who designed the original Tomb Raider video game in 1995 along with the character Lara Croft. His work on the game included building and animating most of the game’s characters (including Lara), animating the in-game cutscenes, storyboarding the FMVs, and managing the level designers. Core gave Gard creative control over the game, although it was clear they wanted to market Lara’s sex appeal, even asking Gard to implement a nude code into the game, which he refused to do. His 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”.

In late 1997, he formed the company Confounding Factor along with co-developer Paul Douglas, who had worked with Gard on Tomb Raider. Galleon was announced soon after.

Toby Gard Net Worth

Toby Gard is one of the richest Video Game Designer from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Toby Gard 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Toby Gard (born 1972 in Chelmsford, Essex) is an English computer game character designer and consultant, notably being part of the team that created fictional female British archaeologist Lara Croft. Lara Croft was awarded a Guinness World Record recognizing her as the “most successful human video game heroine.”

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Who is Toby Gard Dating?

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Facts & Trivia

Todd Ranked on the list of most popular Video Game Designer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Toby Gard celebrates birthday on June 8 of every year.

Who invented Lara Croft?

Lara Croft
First appearance| Tomb Raider (1996)
Last appearance| Shadow of the Tomb Raider (2018)
Created by| Toby Gard

Why did Toby Gard leave Core design?

With Tomb Raider already an established hit, Core was no longer giving Gard the creative freedom he originally had. In the end he was given the choice of making a Tomb Raider port for the Nintendo 64, or working on Core’s vision for Tomb Raider II. Neither option appealed to him, so he left the company.

What is the order of the Tomb Raider games?

• Tomb Raider (1996)
• Tomb Raider II (1997)
• Tomb Raider III (1998)
• Tomb Raider: The Last Revelation (1999)
• Tomb Raider – GameBoy Color (2000)
• Tomb Raider Chronicles (2000)
• Tomb Raider: Curse of the Sword (2001)
• Tomb Raider: The Prophecy (2002)

How is Lara Croft rich?

According to the game’s writer, Rhianna Pratchett, Lara still comes from a wealthy background. “ Lara definitely comes from money. Her father is titled,” Pratchett shares in a recent Crystal Dynamics podcast. “At the start of the game her parents are missing.

Is Lara Croft white?

At the end of the day, Lara Croft is a white woman who tracks down riches and artifacts in other people’s homeland, and in 2018, the social consciousness surrounding those kind of adventure stories has shifted greatly.