Background
Ingo Nugel was born in Dortmund on December 11, 1976.
Ingo Nugel was born in Dortmund on December 11, 1976.
In the same year they completed their first game soundtrack for the action-strategy game “War Commander” developed by Independent Arts.
Together they wrote and produced music for games, short films and advertisements. After being diagnosed with Hodgkin"s lymphoma, he died on 25 March 2007 aged 30 years. His music is also featured in several short films, e.g.
Dronez (German Film School).
The game soundtrack was also released on Civil Defense and distributed by ZYX Music that year. Nugel developed a Hodgkin"s lymphoma in 2005, but by the end of the year, chemotherapy seemed to have beaten lieutenant
However in November 2006 the illness returned, and Nugel went back to hospital. While there, he developed a severe pneumonia, and was moved into intensive care on March 16, 2007.
In his last days, an infection took over before he died on 25 March 2007 at the university hospital in Essen.
He was only 30 years old. In August 2007 a suite of the music from „The Settlers II 10th Anniversary Edition“ was performed on occasion of the Games Convention 2007 at the Gewandhaus in Leipzig. This year"s "Symphonic Game Music Concert" which features many other famous game scores was dedicated to him.
Interview Music4Games.com at the Wayback Machine (archived October 27, 2007)
In Memoriam - Music4Games.com at the Wayback Machine (archived May 19, 2007)
Obituary - VGM Concerts.