Celal Kandemiroglu was a graphic artist in the

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computer games industry. He was born in 1953 in

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and made his first comic when he was five years old. After graduating at the fine arts academy in

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he started to offer his comics to the Bastei-Verlag in Germany around 1978. Since 1985 he has created many video and movie covers until he became a cover artist for the German computer game industry in 1988. He died in 2022. Celal created more than 800 illustrations between 1982 and 2000, some of them more detailed, others done in a rush. Besides that, he created the in-game graphics for many games.

List of games

* Battle Stations (1990),

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* Dragonflight (1990),

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* Legend of Faerghail (1990),

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* M.U.D.S. (1990),

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* X-Out (1990), Rainbow Arts * Masterblazer (1991),

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* Fate: Gates of Dawn (1991), reLINE Software * Monster Business (1991), Eclipse Software Design * The Patrician (1992), ASCARON Entertainment GmbH * Der Planer (1994), Greenwood Entertainment *

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(1994), Ikarion * Menateus (1995),

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* Biing!: Sex, Intrigue and Scalpels (1995),

* Elisabeth I. (1995), Ascon * Emergency: Fighters for Life (1998),

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* Zeus (1998), Blissware Entertainment * Panzer Elite (1999),

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Limited *

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(2004),

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* Sacred Plus (2004),

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UK Ltd. * Soeldner: Secret Wars (2004), JoWooD Productions Software AG

List of famous cover paintings

* (1988) Axxiom / Micro Partner - Spinworld * (1988) EAS - Zero Gravity * (1988) Rainbow Arts - Volleyball Simulator * (1988) Time Warp / Rainbow Arts - Detector * (1989) Magic Bytes - Air Supply * (1989) Factor 5 - Denaris aka Katakis * (1989) Rainbow Arts - Rock'N'Roll * (1989) Rainbow Arts - Spherical * (1989) Rainbow Arts - X-Out * (1989) Rainbow Arts / TimeWarp - Berlin 1948 - East vs. West * (1989) reLINE Software - Dyter-07 * (1989) Starbyte - Tie Break * (1990) Magic Bytes - Big Business * (1990) Magic Bytes / Micro Partner - Domination * (1990) Play Byte / Psygnosis - Atomino * (1990) Rainbow Arts -

Turrican ''Turrican'' is a 1990 video game developed by Manfred Trenz. It was developed for the Commodore 64 by Rainbow Arts, and was ported to other systems later. In addition to concept design and character creation, Trenz programmed ''Turrican'' on th ...

* (1990) Rainbow Arts - M.U.D.S. * (1990) Rainbow Arts - Masterblazer * (1990) Rainbow Arts - Z-Out * (1990) Rainbow Arts / Amiga Artists - Startrash * (1990) reLINE - Legend of Faerghail * (1990) Starbyte - Crime Time * (1990) Thalion - Dragonflight * (1990) Thalion / Eclipse - Wings of Death * (1991) Eclipse - Lethal Xcess * (1991) Eclipse -

Monster Business ''Monster Business'' is a 1991 vertically scrolling platform game developed by Eclipse Software Design and published by Ascon that was released for the Amiga and Atari ST. Plot The Mad Meanies, a group of mutated monsters, have invaded constructi ...

* (1991) Rainbow Arts - Turrican II * (1991) reLINE Software - Fate: Gates of Dawn * (1992) Eclipse - Stoneage * (1992) Thalion - No Second Prize * (1993) Rainbow Arts - Turrican 3 * (1995) reline / Magic Bytes - Biing! * (1999) Wings Simulation - Panzer Elite * (2004) Take-Two Interactive - Sacred * (2004) Wings Simulation - Soeldner (Secret Wars)

External links

Temple of Celal

Interview with Celal Kandemiroglu
1953 births Living people German people of Turkish descent {{videogame-bio-stub