- Ciaran Gultnieks
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Ciaran Gultnieks was born in 1970[citation needed]. He is perhaps most notable for his work as a computer game programmer. His best known projects include Star Wars in 1988 for home computers and Dogfight (1993), Slipstream 5000 (1995) and Hardwar (1998)[1] for the PC.
Biography
He 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.[6]
Ciaran manages data and computational resources with skill. He has worked in many capacities employing his talents to develop software, data and to automate some tasks to enable some humans to maybe work on more interesting and satisfying things. Ciaran has a web site with a blog and a wiki which documents some of the random things he has written about stuff with annotated links to some of the perhaps related things he has read. [7]
Works
He is credited on the following games[8]:
- Star Wars (1987), Domark Software, Inc.
- Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (1988), Domark
- Fighter Bomber (1989), Activision
- Strike Aces (1990), Activision
- Killing Cloud (1991)
- Dogfight (1993), Microprose
- Air Duel: 80 Years of Dogfighting (1993), MicroProse
- Slipstream 5000 (1995), Gremlin Interactive
- Hardwar (1998), Gremlin Interactive
References
- ^ Magazine interview about Hardwar
- ^ Crash Article
- ^ Ciaran Gultnieks' bio at Mobygames
- ^ Article/interview in PC Format - Best of British supplement
- ^ Hardwar FAQ - Closure of The Software Refinery
- ^ https://www.ohloh.net/p/statusnet/contributors
- ^ "Ciaran's Random Writings Web Site". http://ciarang.com/. Retrieved 2011-06-08.
- ^ Mobygames profile
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