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Syberia Maker Benoît Sokal has died

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Benoît Sokal, Belgian comic book artist and God Almighty of the adventure game serial Syberia, has died at the age of 66. According to a statement from publisher Microïds, Sokal died on May 28 of an unspecified semipermanent illness.

Sokal began creating comics well-nig an anthropomorphic fudge detective titled Examiner Canardo for Franco-Belgian mag À Suivre ("To Be Continued") in the 1970s. He repurposed a storyline from those comics as the basis for his first stake game Amerzone, published by Microïds, in which a journalist travels to South America to prove the existence of a mysterious species of white bird non seen since 1932.

Sokal's next games, Syberia (2002) and Syberia 2 (2004), were his find, finding success years after take a chance games had stopped up being unconstipated best-sellers. Prima lawyer Kate Walker, the Syberia games were a journey across Europe and Russia that showed sour Sokal's present for peculiar architecture and atmospheric backdrops.

After serving as fine art director of Microïds, Sokal left to co-found Albumen Bird Productions and create more adventure games like Paradise and Nikopol: Secrets of the Immortals in the 2000s. No of them found quite the cult success of the Syberia series, which atomic number 2 returned to for Syberia 3 in 2017. Syberia: The World Ahead was announced in 2019, and had plainly been in development for 18 months by that point. According to Microïds, Sokal continued working happening it with Koalabs Studio in the months before his death.

"Benoît contributed staggeringly to advancing the picture game medium internationally," Microïds wrote, "finished a varied and prolific output over the onetime 25 years."

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