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Erik S. Cassel (December 16, 1967 – February 11, 2013), known on the platform as '''erik.cassel''', was a co-founder, ] and former VP of Engineering on ]. He was fairly active on the website but rarely played any ]. Erik passed away due to him losing his fight with ] on February 11, 2013.


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Erik Cassel was born in California, USA, on 16 December 1967. Erik was raised alongside his siblings in California, by their father who was a factory worker, and their mother who was a housewife. He grew up dreaming about becoming an actor, but fell in love with computing while attending high school, and became interested in programming. He was mostly focused on learning the basics, but was also interested in sports, as he played soccer for the school’s team. After matriculating from high school in 1985, he enrolled at Cornell University, from which he graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in 1989.
=== Career ===
Not long after graduation, Erik was invited to join the company Knowledge Revolution, which was founded by his friend David Baszucki and David’s brother Greg – the three worked at the company side by side before it was sold to MSC Software in December 1998, for $20 million.In 2004, Erik and David created the beta version of Roblox, which was initially meant to be called DynaBlocks.The name was changed a year later, and after two years of running tests and writing the platform, Roblox was officially released on 1 September 2006 – the platform became compliant with The Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 in March 2007. Roblox’s first Hack Week was held in December 2011 during which game developers presented their ideas to Erik and David – it was released for iOS on 11 December 2012, as well as for Android on 16 July 2014. On 20 November 2015, Roblox was introduced to Xbox One, and in April 2016 they created Roblox VR with the use of Oculus Rift.
=== Death ===
On February 11, 2013, a Roblox ] stated on the Roblox ] account that Erik Cassel had "lost his fight with cancer" earlier in the day at the age of 45. ] (who is an administrator for Roblox) confirmed it in the late hours in a forum post. A blog post was then created later in the day.

On February 12, 2013, hundreds of users gathered in the Erik Cassel Memorial to mourn the death of Erik Cassel. Many of these people dressed up as Erik Cassel's character to pay tribute to him. On February 15, 2013, Roblox created a ] named "]" in memory of Erik.cassel. The shirt went off sale 8 days later. Also in memory of Erik Cassel, Roblox changed the name of a hat formerly known as "Well Worn Hat" to "]" in memory of Erik, and put it on-sale for a short time. Roblox then changed the two items' descriptions to the following:

: ''"To honor our co-founder Erik Cassel, Roblox will make a substantial contribution to cancer research in Erik's name. Thank you to everyone for your respect and support."''
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