Nick 'Heliophobe' Warren Passed Away

***wraggster*** · March 5th, 2008, 19:11

Im a few weeks late with this but im stunned to hear the very sad news that Heliophobe who was one of the nicest and most talented coders to hit the Dreamcast scene died a few weeks ago.

Heres the post from the SMS Power forums:

We regret to inform you, that
Nick Warren, aka Heliophobe, long time member and supporter of our community, passed away on thursday, january 29 at the age of 29.
Despite being active here, Nick was sick since a few months, and went to the hospital in january. You'll probably remember him for the quality, intelligence and sense of humor in his contributions. Additionnally, it isn't a well known fact but Nick generously handled hosting fees of the site for many years, which permitted our community to stay alive all this time.

More important parts of Nick's life are unknown to us, and I'm certain that his friends and family have more and better reasons to miss him. Our sincere thoughts goes to them.

His close friend Genevieve has setup a simple remembrance page here (page closed by Genevieve since then).

Shall I add some of the things that he created:
Nine Pixels (2006),
SMS Power 7 (2004),
Copyright Violation (2002),
SMEG (SMS Emulator for Dreamcast) (2001) + Interview,
Damiana (Y2Kode 2001 competition),
Tetracycline (2000),
Good Advice (2000),
Sprite (2000).

RIP.

This is very sad news for the Whole Homebrew Community and my tears go out to his friends and family. To die at such a young age is heartbreaking.

RIP