- Ken Silverman
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Projects
Ken's Labyrinth
"Ken's Labyrinth" is a
first-person shooter game coded by Ken. It was originally released in1993 as shareware by Epic Megagames. The source code to the project can now be found on Ken's website. [ [http://advsys.net/ken/klab.htm The official Ken's Labyrinth page] ]Build engine
The "Build engine" is a first-person shooter engine created by Ken Silverman for 3D Realms from
1993 –1996 . The engine was used in a number of popular games of the era, and is now open source. [ [http://advsys.net/ken/build.htm Ken Silverman's Build Engine Page] ]Polymost engine
When the Duke 3D source code was released, Ken decided to update the
Build engine to support true 3D rendering withOpenGL .Voxlap
In
2000 , Ken started work on "Voxlap", a voxel-driven graphics engine. In addition to the engine, a "Voxlap"-powered tech demo was produced in cooperation withTom Dobrowolski . The source code to the engine was released by Ken in2005 , [ [http://advsys.net/ken/voxlap/voxlap05.htm Voxlap Engine source code] - Ken Silverman's website] allowing commercial derivatives with permission. [ [http://advsys.net/ken/voxlap/readme.txt Voxlap engine notes] ] Since2003 , development on the engine has been fairly static.Other projects
Other creations by Silverman include the ZIP file archiver "KZIP" and the PNG file-size optimizer "
PNGOUT ". In2006 , a GUI-driven version of "PNGOUT" known as "PNGOUTWin" [ [http://ardfry.com/pngoutwin/ PNGOUTWin homepage] ] was released byArdfry Imaging , a small company Ken co-founded in2005 .References
External links
* [http://advsys.net/ken/ Ken Silverman's Official Home Page]
* [http://www.mobygames.com/developer/sheet/view/developerId,1008/ MobyGames' rap sheet on Silverman]
* [http://www.3drealms.com/news/2006/02/the_apogee_legacy_8.html 3D Realms "Legacy Interview" with Silverman]
* [http://www.ardfry.com/ Ardfry Imaging, LLC] - Ken is CTO and co-founder of Ardfry
* [http://advsys.net/ken/util/pngout.htm PNGOUT Tutorial]Persondata
NAME=Silverman, Ken
ALTERNATIVE NAMES=Awesoken
SHORT DESCRIPTION=Game designer
DATE OF BIRTH=November 1 1975
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