Our thoughts are with Berlyn's family and friends during this time. I will miss him dearly.- Rebecca Heineman March 31, 2023 We worked together on Tass Times in Tonetown. John Garvin MaI found out that Mike Berlyn passed away today. He was always a kick in the pants, funny, thoughtful, intelligent, and a great human being. He was a video game pioneer and cofounded what would become Bend Studio. vAIJlQPe4D- Mike Mika MaSad to hear that Mike Berlyn passed away today. Oo-topos, Tass Times in Tonetown, and many more games. Suspended, Cutthroats, Infidel (Infocom) as well as games like Bubsy, and Busy 3D. vrMkoiBAgY- George Broussard MaShattered to hear that game designer, programmer and writer Mike Berlyn has passed away. He worked on quite a few games after Infocom and helped pioneer PC gaming. Mike's early 80s work on Infocom adventure games was amazing and inspiring to me as a young would be game developer. On Twitter, fans and former colleagues have been expressing their sadness at the loss and paying tribute to the much-loved personality: RIP Michael Berlyn. In 1992, he also notably co-founded the company Blank, Berlyn & Co., the studio which would eventually become Eidetic and later Bend Studio (after being acquired by Sony). Later, in the '80s, he also went to work on a number of other interactive fiction games for Infocom, including Infidel, Suspended, Cutthroats, and co-designed the game Tass Times in Tonetown with his wife Muffy, for Interplay and Activision. Some of his first published games included the Sentient Software' interactive fiction titles Oo-Topos and Cyborg for the Apple II computer. His career, however, stretches back much further, with the developer entering the industry all the way back in 1981. Berlyn worked on the first game in the series, Bubsy in Claws Encounters of the Furred Kind, in addition to the fourth game, Bubsy 3D. Game developer Michael Berlyn, the creator of Bubsy and founder of the company that eventually became Bend Studio - has passed away aged 73 (as reported by Digital Eclipse president Mike Mika on Twitter).īerlyn is probably best remembered for being the original creator of the Bubsy series, a collection of games about a platforming, pun-loving bobcat, released by Accolade. Welcome to Darkwood.We have some sad news to report. Looking for your weakness, your inner demons, only to devour you. No answer will be given to you for free, yet somewhere in the woods lies the truth, an explanation to what has happened in this godforsaken place. Your senses will be deceived, your sight fooled, your smell tricked by Darkwood's surreal terrors. The fear of unknown is powerful and the unknown will try to remain unseen, forcing you to watch your back. By blending RPG, roguelike and adventure elements together with a challenging difficulty, Darkwood aims to please players craving for a deep and rewarding experience. It is a top-down, free-roam, surreal horror experience with a randomized world, taking cues from classic games, where oftentimes you had to figure things out for yourself. It is a top-down, free-roam, surreal horror experience with a randomized world, taking cues from classic games, where oftentimes you had to figure things out for Darkwood is a game about survival, exploration and fear, set in mysterious woods somewhere in the territory of the Soviet Bloc. Summary: Darkwood is a game about survival, exploration and fear, set in mysterious woods somewhere in the territory of the Soviet Bloc.
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