{"id":113565,"date":"2020-05-29T18:15:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-29T18:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/363914"},"modified":"2020-05-29T18:15:00","modified_gmt":"2020-05-29T18:15:00","slug":"obituary-darklands-creator-arnold-hendrick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/05\/29\/obituary-darklands-creator-arnold-hendrick\/","title":{"rendered":"Obituary: Darklands creator Arnold Hendrick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gamasutra has learned that Arnold Hendrick, creator of MicroProse&#8217;s 1992 RPG <em>Darklands<\/em>, has passed away at the age of 69.<\/p>\n<p>The news comes by way of <a href=\"https:\/\/rpgcodex.net\/article.php?id=11447\">RPG Codex<\/a> and a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/136009730194\/permalink\/10163974796165195\/\">Facebook group for former MicroProse employees<\/a>. Former MicroProse artist Matt Scibilia informed the group that Hendrick passed away on Monday May 25th, after an apparent&nbsp;battle with terminal cancer.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Darklands <\/em>has been credited by RPG developers such as Todd Howard and Josh Sawyer for inspiring their own role-playing experiences. <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120808185406\/http:\/\/planetelderscrolls.gamespy.com\/fullstory.php?id=159095\">Howard even credited the game<\/a> as being a major inspiration for the Elder Scrolls series. For Sawyer&#8217;s part, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=I30dzwiNxLk\">he helped interview Hendrick<\/a> in a retrospective discussion about <em>Darklands<\/em>, and has <a href=\"https:\/\/rpgcodex.net\/\/content.php?id=8246\">done numerous breakdowns of the game.<\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In his later years, Hendrick left a number of insightful comments here on Gamasutra <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/blogs\/ArnoldHendrick\/247347\/\">that you can find here.<\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gamasutra has learned that Arnold Hendrick, creator of MicroProse&#8217;s 1992 RPG Darklands, has passed away at the age of 69. The news comes by way of RPG Codex and a Facebook group for former MicroProse employees. Former MicroProse artist Matt Scibilia informed the group that Hendrick passed away on Monday May 25th, after an apparent&nbsp;battle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113566,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113565\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}