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Tuesday, March 04, 2008Gary Gygax, dead at 69Gary Gygex, Co-creator of Dungeons & Dragons, died in his home in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, at 69 years old.There's probably a hit points joke in there somewhere, but I'm just too saddened by our loss of another creative entrepreneur. Whatever your feeling about D&D, fellow creative Warren Spector maybe sums it up best (for me): "what most folks don't appreciate is how special, how ground-breaking it was as the first medium of expression to turn anyone who played into a storyteller, into an author, into a creator. Not a bad legacy for a pioneering game guy..." Labels: game design, RPG, table top Share: | | | TinyUrl | Twitter SOURCES: Gamespot.com, joystiq.com, kotaku.com, Xbox.com, IGN, GameInformer, Official XBox Magazine, CNN, gamesindustry.biz, and others. 0 Comments: |
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