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Japanese game designer and musician Kenji Eno has died of heart failure induced by high blood pressure, reports The Asahi Shimbun. Among his accomplishments, his former company Warp produced several titles for the 3DO including D and Trip'd. He was 42.

English: http://kotaku.com/5985871/game-designer ... -at-age-42
Japanese: http://www.asahi.com/obituaries/update/ ... 10302.html

Wow. That's a real shame.

Just heard ... so young.

I'll have to make time to play some Trip'd this weekend.

I e-mailed him a few days after the Fukushima explosions, because I was worried



high blood pressure and heart failure are typical for many becquerels of cesium 137 per Kg, potential lethal for cardio vasculare system in human body. Just saying. Cesium mimics potassium. I know it from people in Belarus.
I am very very sorry to hear that.

Just a heads up NikeX, you might wanna censor your email adress. You never know what people could send you.

I scanned a couple pages from the Trip'd manual:

Such a sad day, and so young to boot. The man was a genius.

Total bummer to hear this. I guess it's time to dust off Trip'd and D and have a game night of it.

This is a real tragedy. I became very hopeful when he came back to the gaming world, and though the only game from his new development team was a Japan-only release, I remained on the alert for new stuff from him. He had the ability to think outside the game developer's box, something that the gaming industry could use more of. I think he still had considerably more to offer the gaming world, and it's a shame that we'll never see it. All to say nothing on how hard it must be on his friends and family to lose him at such a young age.

I was already planning on playing a bit of Trip'd tonight. To my mind, Enemy Zero is by far his greatest offering, and I'm about due for a second run through the game, but my Saturn is at a friend's house right now so that's not an option. And Trip'd definitely has Eno's trademark quirkiness, both for better and worse. What other action puzzler out there has such delightfully freaky alien heads?

This is a rather trivial observation, but it's curious how the article only mentions the Saturn version of D. It wasn't the first platform the game was released for (durr), and I would assume the PC version is more well known.

Rest in peace, Mr. Eno. We'll miss you.

I was incredibly sad today when I heard the news. I spent many hours at the WARP offices, and I tried hard to make sure Eno-san and Hiro-san were comfortable when they came to visit 3DO. For some reason, despite the language barrier, everyone really got along.

What I learned from the experience is that you should go with your gut in terms of giving developer support to cool people with fun ideas. These guys were just a bunch of young random Japanese kids at the time. But they were so nice and so fun that it was obvious that we had to do everything possible to help them.

Once Eno-san took me and a couple programmers to a date bar in Shinjuku. Dude dropped like 100000 yen on us in under an hour.

I'll miss him a lot.

This news was a big shock to the extent that even a small newspaper like a local paper is treated.
He was saying at the interview at various places, such as a game magazine of Japan of those days, repeatedly, "I like 3DO and a 3DO fan."

His too early death is really regrettable.

FUJISAN wrote:This news was a big shock to the extent that even a small newspaper like a local paper is treated.
He was saying at the interview at various places, such as a game magazine of Japan of those days, repeatedly, "I like 3DO and a 3DO fan."

Yeah, I remember even in his relatively recent interview for 1UP.com, he talked about how much he liked the 3DO company and how cool the building was and such. He definitely seemed to regret that things didn't work out better for the console.

Wow.

What a bummer. I always was a huge fan of his. Gonna have to play D tonight now.

Martin III wrote:

FUJISAN wrote:This news was a big shock to the extent that even a small newspaper like a local paper is treated.
He was saying at the interview at various places, such as a game magazine of Japan of those days, repeatedly, "I like 3DO and a 3DO fan."

Yeah, I remember even in his relatively recent interview for 1UP.com, he talked about how much he liked the 3DO company and how cool the building was and such. He definitely seemed to regret that things didn't work out better for the console.

He did not do getting angry also when "M2 plan" is given up.
He was talking in this way.
「I obtained the good dream from Panasonic. I appreciate Panasonic. 」

He thinks that he really liked 3DO.