Video Game Nerds

[gcreptile 11,305]

Chinese gamer dies after streaming five nights in a row:

https://metro.co.uk/2023/11/29/gamer-paid-stream-240-hours-dies-working-five-nights-a-row-19898417/

 

Not the first case. He was being paid to do the night shift. The company offers 550 Pounds in compensation.

[gcreptile 11,305]

Fallout and Elder Scrolls content creator Mitten Squad has died at 27:
https://www.pcgamesn.com/mitten-squad-dead

 

He dealt with health problems and alcohol use.

 

I finished Skyrim last week and survived. I have now moved on to Starfield.

[alt obits guy 3,402]

Bryan Ansell, co-creator of Warhammer Fantasy Battle and the leader of Games Workshop through the late 1980s, died December 30th.  He was 68.

 

https://www.polygon.com/24023687/bryan-ansell-warhammer-co-creator-obituary

[Spade_Cooley 9,690]

Jennell Jaquays reported dead on her GoFundMe aged 67. Had a very lengthy career in gaming, from being behind the first conversion of Donkey Kong for a home console (Colecovision) in 1982, through to being a level designer on various Dooms and Quakes over the years and an art director for Age of Empires. Also did some stuff involving Dungeons and Dragons but I have no idea what any of that is.

[alt obits guy 3,402]

Adam Duncan, co-founder of Australia's League of Geeks and a respected art director, concept artist and animator, has died.

 

https://www.gamedeveloper.com/art/obituary-league-of-geeks-co-founder-adam-duncan-has-passed-away

 

 

[alt obits guy 3,402]

Mutsumi Inomata, an illustrator and character designer for video games, died March 10th. She was 63.

 

https://www.gamedeveloper.com/art/obituary-mutsumi-inomata-tales-character-designer-died-at-age-63

 

 

[alt obits guy 3,402]

X/Twitter reporting the death of American game designer and fantasy author James M. Ward.

 

 

Edit: obit: https://www.enworld.org/threads/d-d-luminary-jim-drawmij-ward-passes.703205/

[alt obits guy 3,402]

Michael 'BrolyLegs' Begum, a competitive gamer most notably associated with Street Fighter, has died. He was 35. Since birth, Begum suffered from arthrogryposis, which impacted his limbs and joints and left him largely immobile.

 

https://www.eventhubs.com/news/2024/mar/19/brolylegs-passed-away/

[alt obits guy 3,402]

Jim Ward, a long-time designer for the Dungeons & Dragons tabletop game, has died. He was 72.

 

https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/obituary-jim-ward-dungeons-dragons-designer-died-at-age-72

[Ulitzer95 13,058]

3 minutes ago, alt obits guy said:

Jim Ward, a long-time designer for the Dungeons & Dragons tabletop game, has died. He was 72.

 

https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/obituary-jim-ward-dungeons-dragons-designer-died-at-age-72

You reported him dead 2 days ago, 2 posts above this you total muppet.

[tracy 2,518]

Wow. Hope Dungeons & Dragons designer Jimmy Ward doesn't bite it then.

[Commtech Sio Bibble 2,217]

2 minutes ago, Ulitzer95 said:

You reported him dead 2 days ago, 2 posts above this you total muppet.

A self-Dunning, is this a first?

[alt obits guy 3,402]

7 minutes ago, alt obits guy said:

Jim Ward, a long-time designer for the Dungeons & Dragons tabletop game, has died. He was 72.

 

https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/obituary-jim-ward-dungeons-dragons-designer-died-at-age-72

Self for already posting this.

[Ulitzer95 13,058]

17 minutes ago, Commtech Sio Bibble said:

A self-Dunning, is this a first?

Could be. Don’t recall it happening before.

[YoungWillz 21,488]

Geoff Follin, British composer of music for games on the Commodore 64, NES, SNES among others, reportedly dead from pancreatic cancer aged 57/58: 

Often worked with his brother Tim Follin. Works include Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade, Gauntlet III, Super Off Road, Spiderman And The X-Men In Arcade's Revenge, Thomas The Tank Engine And Friends and Batman Forever.

 

 

[Sir Creep 7,091]

On 31/05/2024 at 03:52, YoungWillz said:

Geoff Follin, British composer of music for games on the Commodore 64, NES, SNES among others, reportedly dead from pancreatic cancer aged 57/58: 

Often worked with his brother Tim Follin. Works include Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade, Gauntlet III, Super Off Road, Spiderman And The X-Men In Arcade's Revenge, Thomas The Tank Engine And Friends and Batman Forever.

 

 

 

Exceot that the X obit from his brother never mentions anything about being a composer.  How would you have ever known that unless you too are a total nerd? 

[YoungWillz 21,488]

1 hour ago, Sir Creep said:

 

Exceot that the X obit from his brother never mentions anything about being a composer.  How would you have ever known that unless you too are a total nerd? 

The Follin Brothers are lauded for their early music for games - sometimes it is the best bit.

 

Oh, and Google.

[wannamaker 1,490]

11 minutes ago, YoungWillz said:

The Follin Brothers are lauded for their early music for games - sometimes it is the best bit.

 

Yeah, their best work was on Silver Surfer imo.

 

 

[gcreptile 11,305]

Currently live: the first gameplay reveal for Civilization VII. Sid Meier is now 70 years old, so quite old for a game developer. His face is coloured quite sickly.

[gcreptile 11,305]

Andrew Greenberg, co-creator of the Wizardry RPG series has died at 67:

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/co-creator-of-wizardry-andrew-c-greenberg-has-died-aged-67

 

It's one of the 2-3 core RPG "franchises" in gaming history. The Wizardry series also had a strange afterlife in Japan where it has tons of off-shoot games.

[Evil Grimace 369]

7 hours ago, gcreptile said:

Andrew Greenberg, co-creator of the Wizardry RPG series has died at 67:

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/co-creator-of-wizardry-andrew-c-greenberg-has-died-aged-67

 

It's one of the 2-3 core RPG "franchises" in gaming history. The Wizardry series also had a strange afterlife in Japan where it has tons of off-shoot games.

 

And he's immortalized as the evil wizard Wernda in the first game.

 

Fond and frustrating memories of playing this series.  I had pages and pages of square ruled paper for mapping out the dungeons.  A true dungeon crawler where you had to roll your character.  Spells that gave you no clue what effect they'd do.  Enemies with attacks that had no effect or caused no damage, but would call for help until you buckled under sheer numbers (Creeping Coins).  Chests with traps that even the best Thief or Ninja would be killed due to triggering a trap on attempted inspection or misidentification.  Teleporting into solid rock due to misreading coordinates.  Endless grinding for levels against Murphy's Ghost.  Random treasures and trophies needed to pass checkpoints.  The horror of realization your party was too weak to make it back to town and died one by one on the attempted return journey - and you could visit their grave on the next trek down to the unknown.

 

Finally made it to Wernda?  The chances an instant death spell or attack would work and take out at least one of the six of your party was assured.   

 

Classic games on the PC.

[gcreptile 11,305]

On 18/06/2022 at 09:28, gcreptile said:

"Skyrim Grandma" Shirley Curry wants Bethesda to release the sequel before she dies. She's 86 years old now, good luck!

https://metro.co.uk/2022/06/17/skyrim-grandma-wants-to-play-elder-scrolls-6-before-she-dies-16844533/

 

And yes, she has a Wiki page:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirley_Curry

 

She suffered a stroke earlier this year, deleting many gaming memories from her harddrive.

According to her latest video, Shirley Curry is retiring from making gaming videos. She'll have eye surgery (actually today):

https://www.ign.com/articles/beloved-skyrim-grandma-retires-from-making-gameplay-videos-at-88-years-old

 

She also feels too tired to do more, tired of it, tired in general, maybe both. She might still do normal videos though.

[gcreptile 11,305]

Martyn Brown, co-founder of Team17 has died at only 57:

https://www.timeextension.com/news/2024/12/team17-co-founder-martyn-brown-has-passed-away-aged-57

 

I liked that company back in the day. Most famously, they created the Worms games (also Alien Breed).

 

Those gamers...don't get old.

[arghton 7,044]

I'd thought of a DDP theme team made up of video game developers. Couldn't make up a name for it or assemble a full 20 picks.

 

Lasse Louhento - Creator of Clash of Clans. Terminal but stable brain cancer for 10 years.

Shutaro Ida - Castlevania, Bloodstained. Unspecified cancer

Alx Preston - Hyper Light Drifter and Solar Ash creator, severe heart disease

Sid Meier - Very notable (CIV), gcreptile's comment of him having a discolored face

Alexey Pajitnov - Creator of Tetris. For whatever reason feels like a potential big shocking sudden death.

Hal Barwood - Octogenarian, frailish but not a very big name.

Gabe Newell - Very notable (Valve), very obese

Markus Persson - Very notable (Minecraft), drug problems + obese but still very young

Rod Fisher - Obscure 93-year-old who created a couple of games in the 2000s, still definitely alive, suffered a major stroke stroke some years ago. Despite some recent online attention there is no way he'd obit.

William Crowther - Old, decrepit, even has a Wikipedia page but wouldn't obit.

[gcreptile 11,305]

7 minutes ago, arghton said:

I'd thought of a DDP theme team made up of video game developers. Couldn't make up a name for it or assemble a full 20 picks.

 

Lasse Louhento - Creator of Clash of Clans. Terminal but stable brain cancer for 10 years.

Shutaro Ida - Castlevania, Bloodstained. Unspecified cancer

Alx Preston - Hyper Light Drifter and Solar Ash creator, severe heart disease

Sid Meier - Very notable (CIV), gcreptile's comment of him having a discolored face

Alexey Pajitnov - Creator of Tetris. For whatever reason feels like a potential big shocking sudden death.

Hal Barwood - Octogenarian, frailish but not a very big name.

Gabe Newell - Very notable (Valve), very obese

Markus Persson - Very notable (Minecraft), drug problems but still very young

Rod Fisher - Obscure 93-year-old who created a couple of games in the 2000s, still definitely alive, suffered a major stroke stroke some years ago. Despite some recent online attention there is no way he'd obit.

William Crowther - Old, decrepit, even has a Wikipedia page but wouldn't obit.

I'd like to see that, might even contribute some names.

Not my special field, but console gaming could be in there, for example, Shigeru Miyamoto (Mario)

Also, Allan Alcorn (Pong)

Tomohiro Nishikado (Space Invaders)

 

In fact, the arcade pioneers are probably getting into the right age for this.

 

 

Edit: I recall three british pioneers, too, but they're only in their sixties and seem to be doing alright (except some of them seem to get cooky at their age)

- David Braben (Elite)

- Peter Molyneux (of Bullfrog fame, Populous, Fable)

- RIchard Garriott (Ultima)