German video game designer and influencer Manuel Otto apparently died by suicide while he was livestreaming on Twitch, according to the streaming platform and his colleagues. He was 30.
\n\nOtto was a 14-year-old high school student when he created his most famous game, “Stick Run.” The free Facebook game, later an app for Android and Apple, was played by tens of millions of people.
\n\nHis body was found Tuesday after authorities responded to reports of a blaze in an attic room on a property in the Bavarian village of Breitbrunn am Chiemsee, the German newspaper Bild reported.
\n\nColleagues confirmed his death on social media.
\n\n“It is with a heavy heart that we confirm and announce the passing of our creator, developer, and fellow Stick Runner, Marc-Manuel Alexander Otto,” the Stick Run Team posted Wednesday on Facebook. An earlier post from the Stick Run Team said Otto “appeared to take his own life” in a livestream.
\n\nVideos of the livestream later posted online appear to show Otto setting himself on fire.
\n\nMeanwhile, a Twitch spokesperson said in an emailed statement that Twitch “moved quickly to remove the channel and Video on Demand (VOD) to prevent it from being viewed by others.”
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