Ciaran Gultnieks
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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]
- Star Wars (1987), Domark Software, Inc.
- 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
See also
References
- ^ Magazine interview about Hardwar
- ^ Crash Article
- ^ Ciaran Gultnieks' bio, Mobygames.com
- ^ Article/interview in PC Format - Best of British supplement
- ^ Hardwar FAQ - Closure of The Software Refinery
- ^ https://github.com/CiaranG. Retrieved 2015-05-06.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ^ "About". F-Droid Limited. Retrieved 6 January 2016.
- ^ https://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/interview-with-ciaran-gultnieks-of-f-droid. Retrieved 2015-05-06.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ^ Mobygames profile
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