Martyn Brown, cofounder of Team17 and a 35-year sport trade veteran, has handed away at age 57.
Brown began Team17 with Debbie Bestwick and Michael Robinson in 1990.
Brown helped create greater than 50 video video games together with Worms and Alien Breed. He additionally shaped consultancy Perception For Rent and helped help studios Double Eleven, Exient, The Blast Furnace and New Star Video games, in line with GamesIndustry.biz.
Others who handed away not too long ago embody Martyn Brown (2024), Dan Van Elderen (2024), Masayuki Kato (2024), Matthew White (2023), Alex Cabal (2024), Joe Banks (2024), Thomas Kurtz (2024), Christophe Vivet (2024), Manny Granillo (2024), Erin Fusco (2024), Dylan Mecham (2024), Greg Hildebrandt (2024), Mike Brennan (2024), Rupert Easterbrook (2024), Uwe Mathon (2024).
Don Daglow, a longtime trade sport developer, retains an inventory of those that handed away within the sport trade on this hyperlink.
“Martyn handed away peacefully in his sleep at 8:17am, twenty eighth of December, 2024 surrounded by household, following a chronic battle with a sequence of strokes,” Jack Brown wrote. “Know that he went out on his personal phrases listening to his favourite music and surrounded by family members.”
Fellow sport builders are leaving memorials to Brown on social media, together with a Fb web page.
Kevin Dent wrote, “Such an incredible man, he lived his life in prime gear and introduced the remainder of us together with him. There are only a few folks within the video video games trade who’re as infectious as Martyn, everybody in all probability has a Martyn story and mine had been all constructive and usually concerned assembly him at some obscure bar at a video video games trade occasion someplace on this planet.”
Kish Hirani wrote on Fb, “I’ve been processing the tragic information and questioning what can I say about this beautiful man Martyn Brown? He had an enormous sense of enjoyable, he was extraordinarily mischievous, completely enjoyable loving but additionally sort, considerate and he at all times cared for his pals and stored in contact with everybody!
When he visited… he introduced me THE BEST pork pies/scotch eggs and the one crossed phrases we ever had through the years, was about #HandbagGate when he hid a plate filled with fish goujons in my purse at The London Video games Pageant launch get together… I opened my bag in a gathering the next day to probably the most godawful stench and my purse was ruined!”
Hirani added, “I discover it hilarious now however I didn’t discover it very humorous on the time! Evidently that beautiful Martyn despatched me an exquisite new leather-based purse by means of an apology… I shall dig out that purse he purchased me round 20 years in the past, and I’ll cherish it much more now! Farewell you beautiful, beautiful man… little doubt you’ll be hellraising, partying, ordering a large spherical of drinks, cuddling canine and enjoying Perudo wherever you’re!”
