Longtime UK recreation developer Stewart Gilray died on Thursday after contracting Covid-19 in December, stories GamesIndustry.biz. Gilray based recreation studio Simply Add Water in 2006, specializing in ports and remaster work in addition to creating unique video games.
Gilray’s recreation growth profession stretches again effectively earlier than the founding of Simply Add Water. Within the early ’90s he was a programmer on Amiga video games together with Darkmere, revealed by Tomb Raider studio Core Design, and Bullfrog Productions’ Powermonger, designer Peter Molyneux’s follow-up to Populous.
Gilray’s studio Simply Add Water is greatest identified for serving to revitalize the Oddworld sequence. In 2010, Simply Add Water took on the event of Oddworld: Stranger’s Wrath HD, bringing the distinctive shooter to PC and new consoles. The studio went on to create an HD port of Oddworld: Munch’s Odysee, and in addition co-developed Oddworld: New ‘n’ Tasty, a full remake of the primary recreation within the sequence.
In keeping with GameIndustry.biz, Gilray was hospitalized with Covid-19 on December 20. He died on January 6 on the age of 51.
Builders have posted messages on Twitter eulogizing Gilray for the reason that information broke.
“It is unbelievable to suppose that we misplaced Stewart Gilray at present on the younger age of 51,” wrote Digitical Eclipse studio head Mike Mika. “CEO and Founding father of Simply Add Water, however extra so a distinguished determine and blueprint for fulfillment in video games, not simply financial success, however success in all the pieces that issues. RIP.”
“Covid reduce quick his life and destroyed a lot. He was the nicest bloke I knew, cussed as hell, and at all times there for me,” wrote Q-Video games CEO Dylan Cuthbert.
Gilray is survived by his spouse, a son, and daughter.
