Guido Henkel

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Guido "Guy" Henkel (born September 9, 1964 in Stuttgart ) is a German-American computer game developer and author.

Career

Although Henkel wanted to become a musician, he only trained as a typesetter after school. After he had completed this, he tried to pursue his music career as a guitarist in various heavy metal bands, but could not gain a foothold in the industry. After gaining initial programming experience at school, he began programming on the Commodore VC 20 in 1982 . After several unsuccessful attempts, he was able to publish his first game Hellowoon in 1985 through the Bertelsmann subsidiary Ariolasoft and subsequently developed other games. Together with his school friends Hans-Jürgen Brändle and Jochen Hamma , he founded the game developer Attic Entertainment Software GmbH in Albstadt in 1990 . One of the company's best-known works was the Nordland trilogy ( Blade of Fate , Star Tail , Shadow over Riva ), which Henkel played a key role in developing , and which was based on the rules of the role-playing game rules The Black Eye . Henkel acted as a producer, programmer and also as a composer for Sternenschweif und Schatten über Riva . After disputes with his business partners, he left Attic and moved to Southern California. There he worked for Interplay Entertainment as a producer on the role-playing game Planescape: Torment , but left the company before the title was completed. Since 1998, Henkel and his wife Thu-Lieu Pham have been running the website dvdreview.com , for which he has been writing reviews of DVD and BluRay releases of films in addition to his other professional activities. In 2002, Henkel founded G3 Studios , a mobile game company .

Henkel has been the author of the Victorian-era mystery horror series Jason Dark: Ghost Hunter in English since 2010 . The name is an allusion to the fictional author name Jason Dark of the dime novel series Geisterjäger John Sinclair by Helmut Rellergerd . The use of the stage name Rellergerds as the name for the main character of the series is, according to Henkel, an homage to his work, which Henkel had a major influence on the conception of his series.

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Ludography (excerpt)

Novels (excerpt)

  • 2013: Night of Horror (Thunder Peak Publishing)

Non-fiction

  • 2014: Zen of eBook Formatting (Thunder Peak)
  • 2016: Zen of eBook Marketing (Thunder Peak)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Guido Henkel: Author profile . Good Reads, last accessed May 14, 2012.
  2. ↑ Brenda Garno & Frank Heukemes: Attic-Interview: Das Schwarze Auge 3 . (Article scan) In: Power Play . No. 06/1996, June 1996, pp. 152-158.
  3. ↑ Guido Henkel: Interview . In: Atari Legend . March 5, 2006. Retrieved May 14, 2012.
  4. ↑ Sebastian Thöing: Interview on DSA 4: Drakensang with developer legend Guido Henkel . In: PC Games . December 29, 2007. Retrieved May 14, 2012.
  5. ↑ Daniel Kreiss: Fed up . In: PC Games . February 27, 2002. Archived from the original on March 19, 2012. Retrieved on September 1, 2009.
  6. ↑ Guido Henkel - from the black eye to the black jack . In: PC Games . January 10, 2002. Retrieved May 14, 2012.
  7. ↑ Florian Stangl: DSA developer Guido Henkel is now writing horror novels . In: PC Games . January 5, 2010. Retrieved May 14, 2012.
  8. ↑ Jörg Langer : Guido Henkel publishes Jason Dark: Ghost Hunter (Upd.) . In: Gamersglobal . January 5, 2010. Retrieved May 14, 2012.
personal data
SURNAME Henkel, Guido
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Guy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American computer game designer and author
DATE OF BIRTH September 9, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart