Armin Gessert

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Armin Gessert (born June 13, 1963 ; † November 8, 2009 ) was a German developer of computer games. He became famous for the game The Great Giana Sisters .

Life

Armin Gessert has worked as a developer of computer games since 1984. Together with Manfred Trenz and Chris Hülsbeck, he programmed the game The Great Giana Sisters for the Commodore 64 in 1987 .

After initially working for Rainbow Arts and Blue Byte , he founded Spellbound Entertainment in 1994 , for which he worked as CEO until his death . On November 8, 2009, Gessert died of a heart attack at 12:30 a.m. He was 46 years old.

At the German Developer Award 2009 he was posthumously awarded a place in the Hall of Fame as the first German game developer to receive an award for his life's work.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.gamesetwatch.com/2009/11/giana_sisters_cocreator_armin.php
  2. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated November 13, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.spellbound.de
  3. ↑ Peter Steinlechner : Anno 1404: Main winner at the German Developer Award 2009 . golem.de, December 9, 2009
personal data
SURNAME Gessert, Armin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German inventor and developer of computer games
DATE OF BIRTH June 13, 1963
DATE OF DEATH November 8, 2009