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In memoriam: Team17 cofounder Martyn Brown and different recreation devs who died in 2024
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In memoriam: Team17 cofounder Martyn Brown and different recreation devs who died in 2024

Last updated: December 30, 2024 7:50 pm
Editorial Board Published December 30, 2024
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Martyn Brown, cofounder of Team17 and a 35-year recreation 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 fashioned consultancy Perception For Rent and helped assist 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 recreation developer, retains an inventory of those that handed away within the recreation trade on this hyperlink.

“Martyn passed away peacefully in his sleep at 8:17am, 28th of December, 2024 surrounded by family, following a prolonged battle with a series of strokes,” Jack Brown wrote. “Know that he went out on his own terms listening to his favorite music and surrounded by loved ones.”

Fellow recreation builders are leaving memorials to Brown on social media, together with a Fb web page.

Kevin Dent wrote, “Such an amazing guy, he lived his life in top gear and brought the rest of us along with him. There are very few people in the video games industry who are as infectious as Martyn, everyone probably has a Martyn story and mine were all positive and normally involved meeting him at some obscure bar at a video games industry event somewhere in the world.”

Hirani added, “I find it hilarious now but I didn’t find it very funny at the time! Needless to say that lovely Martyn sent me a beautiful new leather handbag by way of an apology… I shall dig out that handbag he bought me around 20 years ago, and I’ll cherish it even more now! Farewell you lovely, lovely man… no doubt you’ll be hellraising, partying, ordering a massive round of drinks, cuddling dogs and playing Perudo wherever you are!”

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