The co-creator of The Sims, Tim LeTourneau, has handed away.
In a submit on social media, his spouse Donna introduced that he had died – based on GamesBeat – whereas a former member of the Maxis workforce took to Reddit to pay tribute to the event veteran. LeTourneau’s profession began at Maxis again in 1998 the place he labored as a senior producer for eight years. He moved to dad or mum firm Digital Arts, spending two years as an government producer earlier than being promoted to VP and GM of The Sims Studio in 2008.
In March 2011, he moved to Zynga to work as its VP of studios and was promoted to chief artistic officer nearly two years later. After a quick stint at Storm8 as its chief artistic officer, he returned to Zynga for one yr as SVP of video games.
In March 2017, he was employed by Warner Bros Interactive Leisure as director of product design, leaving simply over four-and-a-half years later to affix Fortis Video games as a senior advisor.
“There’s a motive why I known as it the Maxis household, as a result of it has been that for many who work and labored there,” the previous Maxis staffer wrote on Reddit.
“A spot the place we may all contribute our abilities, ardour, and visions whereas maintaining our humour, our vitality, and our sanity. Tim was a real father of that household.”
