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About the Developers
Details on all the Developers and major contributors can be found on this
page. Listed in no particular order.
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Real Name: Chris Thielen
Birth Date: March 1986
Position: Founder/Main Programmer
IRC Handle: topher
Website: chris.luethy.net
Likes: Unix, Programming, Trance, Girls Who Like Unix/Programming/Trance
Dislikes: Getting up before noon, School, Girls WHo Don't Like Unix/Programming/Trance
Chris is the founder of Epiar and the Epiar Development Team. He came up with the idea to do an open source game based off Escape Velocity while standing, cold, outside a building early in the morning, with Marco (see next developer), and trying to come up with something to do with his newfound SDL skills. He started programming at age eight in MS QuickBasic and began dabbling in C around eleven. His inspiration to begin writing Linux games came with his love of the late Loki Games, and from reading the book, "Programming Linux Games" by John R. Hall.
Favorite Quote: " ..." - Millions of Stupid People
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Real Name: Marco Lüthy
Birth Date: January 1986
Position: Epiard Main Programmer/Web Programmer/Musician/Artist
IRC Handle: foukou
Website: marco.luethy.net
Likes: Programming, Linux, Trance, Networking, the Internet, Web Design, Synthesizing, Sleeping, Existing, Nature, Idealism, Tolerance
Dislikes: Microsoft, The Sun, Cheese, School, RAP MUSIC!, Religious Finatics, People who preach to me, Religious Missionaries
Marco is the second member of the Epiar Development Team, host of epiar.net, and main programmer of Epiard, the Epiar server daemon. Marco became interested in computers at before the age of ten when he played his first Commodore 64 game, and became hooked on computers. He became interested in programming in the second grade when he played with HTML 2.0. By the eighth grade he had picked up PHP, SQL, and a little Perl and Python. He also picked up synthesizing in the eighth grade, after a childhood of playing the piano, and has been working on Trance beats ever since.
Favorite Quote: "Survival, Social, Entertainment." -
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Real Name: Adam Scott
Birth Date: November 1986
Position: Epiar Artist/Contributor, Win32 (crash) Tester
IRC Handle: VashTheGod, vash
Website: adam.luethy.net
Likes: Watching anime, playing games, doing nothing, and just to be trendy, Linux
Dislikes: People who don't get out of your face, English teachers, annoying Freshmen, Microsoft (including TCPA and Palladium), etc.
Adam is the lead artist for Epiar, doing the artwork for the HUD, user interface elements, and countless ships and planets. Adam, a friend of Chris and Marco, had been talking to Chris about doing a game months before, and although it was initially what he had in mind, Adam joined the Epiar development team as the lead artist. Adam has always been into computers, as well as video games and anime, which although make him perfect to be an artist for Epiar. Adam is also currently brushing up on C and plans to write code for Epiar in the future.
Favorite Quote: " A true friend stabs you in the front." - Oscar Wilde
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Real Name: Eric Sargent
Birth Date: May, 1979
Position: Epiar 3D Artist, Win32 (crash) Tester
IRC Handle: Biggnthed
Website: strangethumb.luethy.net
Likes: Sleep, his wife, 3D modeling, film -not necessarily in that
order-
Dislikes: Old people in cars, work, people who leave the g's off of the
end of words. (i.e. runnin, workin, etc.)
Eric joined the Epiar team way back in the 0.1.0 era when he
submited a 3D space craft, which at the time was the best we'd received.
Eric was playing with Lightwave and just happened to stumble upon Epiar
at the same time that things just fell into place. Now Eric models many
of the weapons and upgrade items as well as the wonderfully done
spacecraft. He is the leading 3D modeler for the Epiar team. With every
new ship and upgrade item his work becomes better and better, each time
receiving awe by the rest of the team. When he's not slaving away at
work, walking his dog, eating greek food, or being pleased by his wife,
he's modeling new things for Epiar.
Favorite Quote: "My doctor says that I have a malformed public-duty
gland and a natural deficiency in moral fiber, and that I am therefore
excused from saving Universes. " -Douglas Adams
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Real Name: Wes Waugh
Birth Date: November 1985
Position: Programmer/2d Artist/GUI Artist
IRC Handle: iosif (pronounced yoh-sif)
Website: wes.luethy.net
Likes: Angry whiteboy music, driving, web design, gaming (l33t style), C, PHP, tmbg, tenacious d
Dislikes: pop music, girls who dont like me, Javascript, Visual Basic, limp bizkit
Favorite Quote: "Nowhere will you find hard work before success, except for maybe in a backwards dictionary. In that case, you probably wouldn't find it at all." -Wes "Destroyer" Waugh
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