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 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 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]

gollark: Perhaps it'll happen anyway without much intervention; developed countries have lower birth rates.
gollark: Genocide tastes good?
gollark: no.
gollark: I've decided to switch AV1 encoders to hopefully sæve time.
gollark: I dropped the quality settings and the AV1 encoding manages an *astonishing* 7FPS for a 400xsomething 12FPS video.

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". 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


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