One of the creators of “Space Rangers 2” and the remake of King’s Bounty Ivan Magazinikov has passed away

Belarusian writer, game designer and screenwriter dies in Russia at the age of 41 Ivan Magazinikov… This was announced on February 1 by his friend Petr Zhgulev

In recent years, Magazinikov lived in Kaliningrad. As Zhgulev said, on January 27, the writer suffered a stroke, as a result of which he fell and hit his head hard. It was not immediately known about the incident, because he lived alone.

The alarm was sounded by Ivan’s girlfriend, who called the Ministry of Emergencies. As a result, the man was hospitalized and put into an artificial coma. Unfortunately, the doctors failed to save his life.

Now the question of transporting Magazinnikov’s body to Belarus is being decided.

“He did what he loved, traveled, arranged his personal life and, I think, was happy – just recently he called 2023 the best year in his life. Despite the epidemic and not the most favorable situation in the country,” Zhgulev wrote.

Ivan Magazinnikov is known to gamers for his work on the games that have become cult in Russia. In particular, he worked on the script for the game “Space Rangers 2: Dominators“and also acted as a game designer for the restart”King’s Bounty: Legend of the Knight“from Katauri Interactive

The last game released, in the creation of which Magazinikov took part, was Ash of Gods: Redemption