[2] Lara Croft was awarded a Guinness World Record recognizing her as the "most successful human video game heroine".

From late 1994 he was part of the team who designed and developed the original Tomb Raider video game along with the character Lara Croft.

[6] 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".

Gard's role on Anniversary was limited to "story consultant", while also adding his voice to the audio commentary included in the game.

[5] Gard and Eric Lindstrom received a nomination for "Best Writing in a Video Game" by the Writers Guild of America for their work on Underworld.

[5] In 2014 Gard founded a new studio called Tangentlemen,[13] where he would work as director on Playstation VR title Here They Lie.