Ciaran Gultnieks

British computer game programmer (born 1970)

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 GNU social.

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 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]

  • Star Wars (1987), Domark
  • Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (1988), Domark
  • Fighter Bomber (1989), Activision
  • Strike Aces (1990), Activision
  • Killing Cloud, The (1991) Image Works
  • Dogfight (1993), Microprose
  • Air Duel: 80 Years of Dogfighting (1993), MicroProse
  • Slipstream 5000 (1995), Gremlin Interactive
  • Hardwar (1998), Gremlin Interactive

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". Archived from the original on 5 April 2010. Retrieved 28 May 2010.
  6. ^ "CiaranG - Overview". GitHub. Retrieved 6 May 2015.
  7. ^ "About". F-Droid Limited. Retrieved 6 January 2016.
  8. ^ "Interview with Ciaran Gultnieks of F-Droid — Free Software Foundation — working together for free software". Retrieved 6 May 2015.
  9. ^ Mobygames profile
  • Personal home page


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