Tim LeTourneau, one of many creators of The Sims franchise at Maxis and a recreation creator at Zynga, has handed away.
LeTourneau’s spouse Donna acknowledged the passing on social media, and a Reddit post from a member of the Maxis group mentioned they have been “shocked and devastated to listen to that we misplaced Tim LeTourneau this weekend.”
LeTourneau was a producer and govt producer at Maxis and a major contributor to many video games together with The Sims, The Sims 2, My Sims and different titles for Maxis and Zynga.
Amongst his credit have been SimCity 3000 (1999), The Sims (2000), The Sims 2 (2004), MySims (2007), and FarmVille 2 (2012). These video games have been loved by a whole lot of hundreds of thousands of individuals.
I interviewed him in 2010, on the tenth anniversary of The Sims, which was conceived by Will Wright. Of that, Letourneau mentioned, “Quite a lot of the inventive group has moved up. I went from a producer/designer to a normal supervisor of the studio. Many people have been there from the start. Quite a lot of the unique Sims expertise continues to be there within the studio. It was Will’s brainchild. However Will is the primary to level out that The Sims is a collaborative effort. Ladies designers comparable to Claire Curtain and Roxy Wolosenko had a really huge affect on the sport. It was a results of a really inventive group. Quite a lot of that group continues to be right here. Will shouldn’t be concerned anymore, however the spirit of collaborative improvement is how we make the sport.”
LeTourneau finally left EA’s Maxis studio and joined Zynga in time for the launch of FarmVille 2. He labored at Zynga from 2012 to 2014. And after that, he went on to design video games at Storm8 for a couple of yr. Then he rejoined Zynga for one more yr. He additionally labored at Warner Bros. Video games and Fortis Video games in recent times.
Sadly I’ve recognized fairly a couple of folks from the sport business who’ve handed away lately, together with Gordon Mah Ung, Thomas Lee, Pete Billington, Carter Lipscomb and extra. Trade veteran Don Daglow keeps a list right here. I’d wish to cross alongside my condolences to LeTourneau’s household. And to his buddies, please ship me tales about LeTourneau.
