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 also founded F-Droid, a software repository for free Android software, 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, most significantly microblogging platform StatusNet.

Works

He is credited on the following games:^[6]

• 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

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. ↑ Mobygames profile