Silas Warner’s most notable contribution to gaming was to create Castle Wolfenstein in 1981, which was the first game to include digitized speech and an early example both of stealth gaming and of the World War II shooter. Three years later, he released a follow-up, Beyond Castle Wolfenstein.
Warner died in 2004, at age 54. He’d been suffering from ill health for more than a decade. Warner was one of the early game design pioneers. But unlike those who found fame and fortune from their work, he remains a somewhat obscure figure.
The article below sheds more light about who he was and what he did, for the many of us who spent so much time enjoying playing Castle Wolfenstein back in the early 1980’s.
See https://www.polygon.com/features/2019/12/24/21029936/castle-wolfenstein-silas-warner
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The late Silas Warner is barely remembered in gaming, but he did something extraordinary