Alientrap
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Alientrap is a team of game developers that develops free software games. They make games for GNU/Linux, Mac OS X, Windows and several other operating systems.
[edit] History
Alientrap was started in Summer 2002 by Lee Vermeulen, with the development of Nexuiz. Originally, the roadmap of the team was to make a small, fun deathmatch to give the team experience called Nexuiz, then the team would move on to more ambitious projects. However, Nexuiz had become a large and ambitious project.
Once Nexuiz was released, Alientrap started a new project, Zymotic. Zymotic is a single-player first-person shooter still in development. But Nexuiz hasn't been abandoned; it's still being maintained today.
So far, every project has been a first-person shooter that uses the DarkPlaces engine (which was developed by a current team member).
Nexuiz made the Games page of Slashdot on release, but never the front page. However, Nexuiz 2.0's release made the digg frontpage.
[edit] The team
Current Team:
- Lee Vermeulen - Leader and Co-Designer
- Forest "LordHavoc" Hale - Lead Programmer and Co-Designer
- "SavageX" - Levels, Code, Sound
- Rick "Rat" Kelley - Lead Animator, Skinner
- Paul "Strahlemann" Evers - Level Designer
- Fabien "H. Reaper" Tschirhart - Level Designer
- Clinton "Kaziganthe" Freeman - Level Designer
- Marko "Urre" Permanto - AI Programming
- "MauveBib" - AI Programming
- Peter "Morphed" Pielak - 2d Artist
- Stephan "esteel" Stahl - Programmer
- KadaverJack - Programmer
- Andreas "Black" Kirsch - Programmer
Past members:
- Chris Holden - 3d Artist, Texture Artist
- "Lavaman" - Level Designer
- "Dade" - Level Designer
- Kurt Dereli - 3d Artist
- Yves "EviLair" Allaire - Artist
- Gottfried "Toddd" Hofmann - Sound FX
- "Innovati" - 2d Artist
- Jody Gallagher - Modeler
- Juergen "LowDragon" Timm - Hagar Model
- Attila "WW3" Houtkooper - 2d Artist
- Garth "Zombie" Hendy - Level Designer
- Dan "Digger" Korostelev - QC programmer
- "Sajt" - QC programmer
- Dan "Wazat" Hale - Programmer
- "Killing" - Concept artist