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News - Obituary: Darklands creator Arnold Hendrick - xSicKxBot - 06-02-2020
Obituary: Darklands creator Arnold Hendrick
<div style="margin: 5px 5% 10px 5%;"><img src="https://www.sickgaming.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/obituary-darklands-creator-arnold-hendrick.jpg" width="200" height="200" title="" alt="" /></div><div><p>Gamasutra has learned that Arnold Hendrick, creator of MicroProse’s 1992 RPG <em>Darklands</em>, has passed away at the age of 69.</p>
<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 battle with terminal cancer. </p>
<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’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> </p>
<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> </p>
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https://www.sickgaming.net/blog/2020/05/29/obituary-darklands-creator-arnold-hendrick/