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.
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 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]
He is credited on the following games: [9]
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.
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 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]
He is credited on the following games: [9]