Paul van der Valk (Hybris) passed away

[lionstorm]

Dear All,

I did not see this information anywhere else besides HOL and EAB so it is with great sadness that Paul van der Valk, the great composer of Hybris music passed away on August the 12th 2021 at the age of 58 !
http://hol.abime.net/hol_search.php?N_ref_artist=1472

Paul you will be remembered, each time I am hearing this fabulous music in this excellent arcade Amiga-only game, thank you so much for the joy it brought me and RIP.

[vince_6]

Thank you Paul for Hybris and Imploder 




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RBkJ_lOsIk

[AmigaAbattoir]

And didn't he do the Poing! games?

[Jope]

Yep, code and music.

[hypnoia]

Hybris was my #1 favorite shooter on my A500, in large part thanks to the soundtrack.  Rest well sir.

[mindprober]

Rest in Peace. Love his music.

[mrdiskodave]

I reverse engineered some his stuff by single stepping through his assembler language ... so I know how he codes.
The synth play routines in Tearaway Thomas are inspired by him.
Many of his ideas (like expressing music as a byte-code language for each channel rather than a "channel by Y" grid) are things I only ever admired from afar (how would you edit that???).
The man was a genius. A true genius.

I always hoped to meet him some day.
I learn now that this is impossible.

What a shame and a loss to the world.