It is with immense shock and great sorrow that we must announce the passing of one of our most frequent, and beloved posters. Björn Eike Schwarz, also known as shapeshifter (and later suchiaruzu) died on the morning of Friday, January 28th, 2005 from an epileptic attack.
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<!>Eike contributed a great deal to the Pocket PC community. As a skilled graphics artist he contributed endless hours—creating the PocketGamer.org logo, and aiding many developers with their graphics needs.
We would like to extend our deepest condolences to Eike’s family. Leaving this world at a mere 18 years of age, it’s impossible to imagine what they must be going through at this time.
In memory of Eike, we have locked and stickied his here at PocketMatrix.
Fitting with his selfless assistance to others, his signature will remain “Serving the web since 1999”.
We’ll miss you Eike.
Chris Edwards
Matt Keys
PocketMatrix.com
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Friday 28th January 2005 morning a good friend of mine ( Björn Eike Schwarz ) died because of an epileptic attack. Björn Eikes funeral is on Thursday 3rd February. If anyone would like to honor Eike with writing a remembrance – please email Lukas Sebastian Grünewald <lukas.gruenewald@gmx.net>
Ours hearts literally broke into a million pieces when we learned Eike had left this world.
He was too young, Eike had too much to share, too much to offer to anyone he touched and would have touched. It isn’t fair.
Eike and I met through of course, PocketMatrix and his on-going love of art, graphics and driving some of you crazy. Randy and I included. But a good crazy, from a genuinely naïve, very warm and loving talented individual.
He strived to be the very best in everything he did regardless of the project or task or just minding his mother to make her proud.
One time he and I were working on a website project – deadlines were approaching and he also had final exams to study for and school projects to complete.
He was so funny about it – he stayed up until 4am to make sure he didn’t let anyone down. And he never did – he kept his promises sacrificing his own sanity. As most of you developers and artists can relate to.
My tears are for having the honor of having him in our lives and touch our lives.
My tears and heartbreak is deep for his family, his mother – losing a child is just too much for anyone to conceive.
Our deepest sympathies pour out to Eike’s family, friends, school mates and all of you that grew to love him as anyone that knew Eike – how could you not.
Andie Clarke-Schleufer
PlanetSchnoogie
To send condolences to his family:
Björn Eike Schwarz
Akkermanner Str. 18
27308 Luttum
Telephone: 0049 4231 62731
I was just talking to Eike last week and he has helped us a lot in testing our games. On behalf of the eSoft team, I would like to send my deepest condolences to his family and friends. We'll definitely miss you Eike!
This is just so so overwhelmingly sad. Eike's given us countless inputs and contributions as one of our first batch of beta testers. He'll surely be missed on our side of the planet.
