Ludvig "Ludde" Strigeus (born January 1981) is a Swedish programmer, best known for developing software such as the

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, '' OpenTTD'', and

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Early life and education

Strigeus was born in January 1981, and he graduated from

Chalmers University of Technology Chalmers University of Technology ( sv, Chalmers tekniska högskola, often shortened to Chalmers) is a Swedish university located in Gothenburg that conducts research and education in technology and natural sciences at a high international leve ...

with a master's degree in computer science and engineering.

Career

He currently works as a

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. In 2005, his development team won PuzzleCrack, a week-long

puzzlehunt A puzzle hunt (sometimes рuzzlehunt) is a puzzle game where teams compete to solve a series of puzzles. A puzzle hunt can happen at a particular location, in multiple locations, or via the Internet. In a puzzle hunt, a puzzle is usually not acc ...

competition that combines

problem-solving Problem solving is the process of achieving a goal by overcoming obstacles, a frequent part of most activities. Problems in need of solutions range from simple personal tasks (e.g. how to turn on an appliance) to complex issues in business an ...

with computer hacking. Ludvig Strigeus was awarded the 2006

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( sv) Medal, the 2011 ''Tenzingpriset'', 2015 honorary doctorate, and the 2020

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Personal life

He currently resides in

Gothenburg Gothenburg (; abbreviated Gbg; sv, Göteborg ) is the second-largest city in Sweden, fifth-largest in the Nordic countries, and capital of the Västra Götaland County. It is situated by the Kattegat, on the west coast of Sweden, and has ...

, Sweden. Due to a rare muscular disease, Strigeus uses a wheelchair.

Software

- small footprint BitTorrent client for Microsoft Windows and OS X (

closed-source Proprietary software is software that is deemed within the free and open-source software to be non-free because its creator, publisher, or other rightsholder or rightsholder partner exercises a legal monopoly afforded by modern copyright and inte ...

) *

ScummVM Script Creation Utility for Maniac Mansion Virtual Machine (ScummVM) is a set of game engine recreations. Originally designed to play LucasArts adventure games that use the SCUMM system, it also supports a variety of non-SCUMM games by companies ...

- interpreter of adventure game engines, most notably LucasArts's SCUMM * '' OpenTTD'' -

reverse engineered Reverse engineering (also known as backwards engineering or back engineering) is a process or method through which one attempts to understand through deductive reasoning how a previously made device, process, system, or piece of software accompli ...

game engine A game engine is a software framework primarily designed for the development of video games and generally includes relevant libraries and support programs. The "engine" terminology is similar to the term "software engine" used in the software i ...

of ''

Transport Tycoon ''Transport Tycoon'' is a video game designed and programmed by Chris Sawyer, and published by MicroProse on 15 November 1994 for DOS. It is a business simulation game, presented in an isometric view in 2D with graphics by Simon Foster, in whi ...

'', led to many ports and game improvements over the original * Ports of

Dr. Mario ''Dr. Mario'' is a 1990 puzzle video game developed and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo Entertainment System, Famicom, and Game Boy. It was produced by Gunpei Yokoi and designed by Takahiro Harada. The soundtrack was composed by Hirokazu ...

and

Kwirk ''Kwirk'', known in Japan as , is a puzzle video game developed and published by Atlus in Japan on November 24, 1989, for the Game Boy. The game was later published in North America in March 1990 by Acclaim Entertainment. Plot Kwirk and his gir ...

for the

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calculator * "The Idiot" - card game for Windows * WebWorks - a text

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- a commercial music streaming service ** Spotiamp - a lightweight Spotify Premium client for Windows, created as a tribute to

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* TunSafe -

VPN A virtual private network (VPN) extends a private network across a public network and enables users to send and receive data across shared or public networks as if their computing devices were directly connected to the private network. The be ...

client for Windows using the WireGuard protocol

References

External links

SourceForge profile

Patents by Inventor Ludvig Strigeus
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