Ciaran Gultnieks

Ciaran Eugene Gultnieks (born 1970) is a British computer game programmer, whose projects include Star Wars (1988, for home computers), Dogfight (1993), Slipstream 5000 (1995) and Hardwar (1998)[1] for the PC. He is the founder of F-Droid and contributes to the microblogging platform StatusNet.

Biography

Gultnieks was the first employee at Vektor Grafix,[2] later moving on to work for Microprose and Spectrum Holobyte.[3] In 1993, he co-founded development house The Software Refinery,[4] which closed its doors in 2002.[5] In recent years he has contributed to various open source software projects.[6] In 2010, he founded the F-Droid software repository, a catalogue of FOSS applications for the Android platform.[7][8]

Works

He is credited on the following games:[9]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Magazine interview about Hardwar
  2. ↑ Crash Article
  3. ↑ Ciaran Gultnieks' bio, Mobygames.com
  4. ↑ Article/interview in PC Format - Best of British supplement
  5. ↑ Hardwar FAQ - Closure of The Software Refinery
  6. ↑ https://github.com/CiaranG. Retrieved 2015-05-06. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  7. ↑ "About". F-Droid Limited. Retrieved 6 January 2016.
  8. ↑ https://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/interview-with-ciaran-gultnieks-of-f-droid. Retrieved 2015-05-06. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  9. ↑ Mobygames profile



This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 10/12/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.