RIP “Berto” from Campaign Series

[Grim.Reaper]

I am guessing folks have come across Berto, remember him from the matrix forums being involved with various games.

It is with great sadness that I am informing you that Robert "Berto" Osterlund has passed away this morning. As the programmer, Berto has been pivotal in the growth of the Campaign Series capabilities and making the Campaign Series games what they are today. Berto and his exceptional expertise will be sorely missed. Our team offers our condolences to his family.

https://www.matrixgames.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=10167&t=401879

[Gusington]

Damn...he was active here too. RIP

[Jarhead0331]

Yeah...what terrible news.

RIP, friend.

[Sigwolf]

Very sorry to hear that.  Thank you for relaying the info, Grim.  He will be missed.

[Crossroads]

We've lost a gem with Berto, not only a great programmer, but a board and computer wargamer and a military history buff as well. His great contribution was to become fluent in most if not all Tiller engines, both at Campaign Series Legion for the Matrix owned Tiller code branch, as well as for the other engines Wargame Design Studio took over from John Tiller Software.

He shone in not only maintaining and adding new features to existing codebase, but he also designed and coded a full Lua based Event Engine to Campaign Series side of things. I am not quite aware of all things with our WDS colleagues, I hope he had the time to implement it there, too. It is quite something, and all about his vision as how a modern game AI should run.

All that, and a top guy with a great sense of humour.

Rest in peace, Berto.

[Uberhaus]

My condolences on the loss of your friend, Crossroads.

[Tripoli]

Damn.  RIP. Condolences to his family.

[Pete Dero]

My condolences to everybody who knew him.

[ArizonaTank]

Very sad. I have enjoyed playing his games so much. RIP