Toby Gard is a computer game character designer and consultant. He designed the original TOMB RAIDER video game in 1995 along with the character Lara Croft. In subsequent roles, he has been the game director for YAIBA: NINJA GAIDEN Z at Spark Unlimited, lead designer and director of cinematics at Crystal Dynamics, working on TOMB RAIDER: UNDERWORLD and an independent cinematics consultant. He is the co-creative director at Tangentleman.