Video game designer Kenji Eno dies, aged 42

<p>Video game designer and musician Kenji Eno has died of heart failure at the age of 42&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The designer behind the cult horror games in the <em>D<&sol;em> series&comma; Eno started out in the video game industry at Interlink before going on to form his own development studio WARP in 1994&comma; a studio where Fumito Ueda &lpar;later the acclaimed designer behind <em>Ico<&sol;em> and <em>Shadow of the Colossus<&sol;em>&rpar; worked as an animator&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Eno developed a maverick reputation during his time with WARP&comma; as evidenced by a press conference for survival horror title <em>Enemy Zero<&sol;em> where Eno arranged the showing of the Sony PlayStation logo morphing into the Sega Saturn logo &lpar;the Saturn being the game&&num;8217&semi;s eventual home&rpar; while Eno simultaneously announced a surprise deal with Sega&comma; this being a public display of Eno&&num;8217&semi;s anger towards Sony at the company&&num;8217&semi;s mishandling of the release of his earlier game <em>D<&sol;em>&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Eventually&comma; Eno moved away from the video game industry for several years only to return and create new games such as iPhone title <em>One-Dot Enemies<&sol;em> and Wii title <em>You&comma; Me&comma; and the Cubes&period;<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>As well as game design&comma; Eno worked as a musician on games as diverse as the Nintendo Entertainment System&&num;8217&semi;s <em>Casino Kid 2<&sol;em> and the Sega Dreamcast title <em>Sega Rally 2<&sol;em>&period; His fascination with music and sound led him to create the Saturn game <em>Real Sound&colon; Kaze no Regret<&sol;em>&comma; an adventure game developed with visually impaired players in mind&comma; focusing on the use of sound rather than visuals to convey the gameplay experience&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&lbrack;Via&colon; <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;eurogamer&period;net&sol;articles&sol;2013-02-21-a-brilliant-creator-and-an-unusual-thinker-game-designer-kenji-eno-has-died-aged-42" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank">Eurogamer<&sol;a>&rsqb;<&sol;p>&NewLine;