The official X/Twitter account for the fantasy role-playing simulation recreation franchise Sorcery introduced on September 1 that the franchise’s co-founder Andrew C. Greenberg has died. He was 67.
The Twitter account famous that Greenberg had an enormous affect on laptop RPGs and gaming tradition. The account added that whereas Greenberg didn’t seem a lot within the public eye within the later years of his life, he was at all times prepared to reply questions on his work and cared about it till the top of his life.
Greenberg and AnimationEigo co-founder Robert Woodhead co-created the unique Sorcery: Testing grounds of the mad overlord recreation in 1981. The sport’s boss, “Werdna”, is Andrew’s identify spelled backwards.
Sorcery is an ongoing franchise that has impressed many RPGs within the West and Japan. The franchise stays persistently common amongst Japanese gamers, with the Sorcery spin-offs that outnumber the first video games within the collection. Japanese online game developer Drecom acquired the copyrights and home and international emblems for the sport collection in October 2020.
The Sorcery franchise impressed a egg cell from 1991.
Greenberg studied at Cornell College and in addition labored on video games akin to Q*bertHe later grew to become a patent lawyer and was a former chairman of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Mental Property Committee.
Sources: Sorcery franchises X/Twitter account (hyperlink 2), Famitsu (Mil☆Yoshimura), PC gamer (Ted Litchfield)
