Ken Demarest

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Kenneth Llewellyn Demarest III is a computer game programmer, business person, and artist.

As a technical innovator, he helped advance the state of the art in computer games by developing the first 3D, texture mapped characters ever seen in a computer game for BioForge. As a Director of Technology at Origin Systems, Ken recognized the potential for graphic MMO's and developed the technical prototype for Ultima Online using Ultima VI as a code base.^[1] . His later work would create the first attempt at a persistent-world real-time strategy game, NetStorm: Islands At War.^[2] .

As an artist for Shadow Garden he wrote 'Sand'^[3], the most popular and frequently sold work on the platform developed by Zack Simpson. Sand is in the permanent collections of numerous museums world wide including the Discovery Science Center and Sony Wonder Technology Lab.