Guido Henkel
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Guido Henkel publicity shot, 2011
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September 9, 1964 Stuttgart, Germany |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Video game designer, video game programmer, composer, writer |
| Website | http://guidohenkel.com/ |
Guido Henkel (born September 9, 1964 in Stuttgart, Germany) is a German-born, American designer, programmer, and developer in the video game industry, as well as a composer and novelist.
He is best known for his work on Planescape: Torment, the Realms of Arkania series of computer role playing games, and his Jason Dark: Ghost Hunter series of dime-novel style supernatural mysteries.
Henkel appears as a speaker and presenter at industry conferences and award shows.
After modeling his first working microprocessor in high school in 1982, Henkel began focusing on programming and formed his first company, Dragonware Games, in 1983. After writing a series of games for the Apple II, Commodore VIC-20 and Commodore C-64, he landed a major publishing deal with ariolasoft, a division of the media giant Bertelsmann, in 1985.
He released Hellowoon: Das Geheimnis des Zauberstabs and Ooze: Als die Geister mürbe wurden through ariolasoft before splitting from the publisher.
In 1990 Henkel formed Attic Entertainment Software with his high school friends Hans-Jürgen Brändle and Jochen Hamma. Attic developed and published a series of games for C-64, Amiga, Atari ST and the PC. In 1992 the company released Die Schicksalsklinge (aka Realms of Arkania: Blade of Destiny) the first computer game based on the acclaimed German role-playing franchise Das Schwarze Auge. The game received high review scores and was an instant hit with hard core role-playing fans around the world and was published in various languages around the world by companies such as U.S. Gold and Sir-Tech.
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