The official X/Twitter account for the fantasy role-playing simulation game series witchcraft Co-founders of the franchise announced on September 1 Andrew Greenberg Already dead. He is 67 years old.
The Twitter account noted that Greenberg had a huge impact on computer role-playing games and gaming culture. The account also said that although Greenberg did not make many public appearances in his later years, he was always willing to answer questions about his work and cared about it until the end of his life.
greenberg and AnimationEigo co-founder Robert Woodhead co-created the original witchcraft: Proving ground for crazy overlords 1981 game.
witchcraft is an ongoing series of games that has inspired many role-playing games in both the West and Japan. This series of games has always been very popular among Japanese players. witchcraft There are more spin-offs than the main game in the series. Japanese video game developer Draycomb In October 2020, we obtained the copyright and domestic and foreign trademarks of this series of games.
this witchcraft franchising inspired OVA 1991.
Greenberg attended Cornell University, where he was also involved in projects such as Q*Burt. He later became a patent attorney and served as chairman of the Intellectual Property Committee of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
Source: witchcraft Series X/Twitter account (Link 2), Famitsu (Miru☆Yoshimura), PC Gamer (Ted Litchfield)
