01-23-2013, 12:54 AM
Legat de moartea lui Alex Bruggemann, am gasit asta pe WoP:
Rest in peace.
[email protected] Wrote:As reported on our website, Piranha Bytes co-founder Alex Brüggemann died of cancer in the night from Saturday to Sunday. He was with his wife and his mother when it happened.
Alex, together with Mike Hoge, Tom Putzki and Stefan Nyul, founded the developer studio Piranha Bytes to create Gothic. In the beginning, it was just them and the three programmers with the original idea (Bert Speckels, Dieter Hildebrandt and Ulf Wohlers). They got some reinforcements, found a publisher and even survived the big dot-com crisis. In the beginning of Gothic 2, there were different opinions on how to continue the series and the company. Furthermore, the parent company (Phenomedia) had financial and legal problems (allegations of accounting fraud, crashing market rates, etc.). So Alex left the team. He stayed in the business however and worked for Ubisoft on “Settlers 6” and as a freelance game designer. He produced many casual titles, many of which he made together with Ralf Marczinczik who also is no stranger to Gothic and Risen fans.
Over two years ago, when Gothic had its tenth anniversary, the World of Gothic made an interview with him in which he stated that he was fighting a nasty disease and was unable to work. That was probably a reference to the cancer he had been battling for more than a year at that time.
It is sad to learn that he now lost this last battle. We hope that he will rest in peace and his family and friends will be able to brave these difficult times.
Rest in peace.