Jean-Michel Hervé, as known as TuO died at the age of 28 from a brain cancer.
TuO was an old friend back from the good old days, from the demomaking days. He was one of the main coder/programmer of the demomaking group called SkyTech, in which I was member too - along with some other close friends -, and was well known and appreciated in the community.
I first met him virtually on the BBS A.C.E owned by Gandalf, before the Internet era. I then joined SkyTech and for many years we had the best years of my life, with him, Shodan, Madman and ZeKiller (and later HouHouTiGrouTiGrou/Faxe, Demnia, Roudoudou, Skal, Phar, Made, Lea… I just can’t name them all). We attended coding parties, the famous Pizzahut A.C.E parties and we met a lot of new people across Europe. We moved from the BBS era to the Internet era, we later became moderator on #demofr and we continued to have so much fun together. I’ll particularly remember the secretly improvised party in Madman’s garage (once Madman’s parents left home for the weekend), the LTPs, the ArfParty and the Wired ‘98 with him.
He contributed to the community many things, demos of course, tools, tutorials and open source libraries. He worked in multiple game companies, for example on the Lankhor’s 3D engine for “F1 World Grand Prix” and as a lead developer on “Alone in the Dark” at Eden Games.
We went on with our jobs but I still remember him and these days as yesterday. I still think of him as a close friend and I will miss him tremendously. He was one of the best friend you could have and he left us way too early.
Rest In Peace TuO
