{"id":98734,"date":"2019-08-19T14:27:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-19T14:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/349007"},"modified":"2019-08-19T14:27:00","modified_gmt":"2019-08-19T14:27:00","slug":"obituary-panzer-dragoon-artist-and-designer-takashi-iwade-has-passed-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/08\/19\/obituary-panzer-dragoon-artist-and-designer-takashi-iwade-has-passed-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Obituary: Panzer Dragoon artist and designer Takashi Iwade has passed away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran artist and graphic designer Takashi Iwade, best known for his work on the long-running <em>Panzer Dragoon <\/em>series at SEGA, has passed away.<\/p>\n<p>Game dev and writer James Mielke, who met Iwade while researching&nbsp;<em>Panzer Dragoon&nbsp;<\/em>for a feature, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jamesmielke\/status\/1163423128795713536\">shared the news on Twitter earlier today<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He explained Iwade was one of the lead enemy designers on&nbsp;<em>Panzer Dragoon Saga<\/em>, and also one of the few people to have worked on most entries in the franchise, which began back in 1995.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>When he wasn&#8217;t working on<em>&nbsp;Panzer Dragoon<\/em>, Iwade also lent his talents to a number of other titles including <em>Yakuza: 0<\/em>, <em>Sega Rally 2 Championship<\/em>, and <em>Fist of the North Star: Lost Paradise<\/em>.&nbsp;He was described by Mielke as a &#8220;cheerful and kind person,&#8221; who seemingly went out of his way to help and include others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran artist and graphic designer Takashi Iwade, best known for his work on the long-running Panzer Dragoon series at SEGA, has passed away. Game dev and writer James Mielke, who met Iwade while researching&nbsp;Panzer Dragoon&nbsp;for a feature, shared the news on Twitter earlier today.&nbsp; He explained Iwade was one of the lead enemy designers on&nbsp;Panzer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":98735,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98734","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\/98734","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=98734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}