Creater of Giana Sisters passes away
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(taken from the spellbound english pages.)
Game Development veteran Armin Gessert has died
On Sunday, 8th of November at about 0:30 am Armin Gessert, CEO of the Spellbound Entertainment
AG and veteran of the German Games Industry died from a heart attack. The
Spellbound Team grieves their founder and CEO.
Armin had been developing games since 1984 and had risen to fame with the hit titles
�The Great Giana Sisters� and �The Great Courts�. After founding the
Spellbound development studio in 1994 his success continued with further hit titles including the
�Desperados� and �Airline Tycoon� series.
The Spellbound Team grieves their founder and
CEO.
�For many of us Armin was a personal friend. We still cannot
believe that he has passed away�, explains Andreas Speer, Spellbound Entertainment AG�s
Studio Manager. �We will continue following Armin�s
goals, as he would have wanted us to.�
�I worked with Armin very closely for more than 15 years�,
adds Jean-Marc Haessig, Creative Director of the Spellbound
Entertainment AG. �He was a good friend with whom I had a
lot in common. Our visions of what to do to make our games
great were absolutely the same. Though I will miss him bitterly
I will continue to strive to create games that Armin would have been proud of.�
As a thoughtful CEO, Armin Gessert cared about his
succession and made provision for the case where Spellbound should find itself without him.
Spellbound�s team of highly experienced developers, recruited by Armin,
will continue to operate with Andreas Speer taking over his position as CEO.
The creative leadership will continue to be in Jean-Marc Haessig�s hands.