Ryan C. Gordon (also known as icculus) is a computer programmer and former Loki Software employee responsible for ''icculus.org'', which hosts many Loki Software projects as well as others. Gordon's site hosts projects with the code from such commercial games as ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'' and other

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projects for multiple platforms. Gordon created ports of proprietary software products to the

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and

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platforms. These include being hired to port most of the ''

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'' series, some of the '' Serious Sam series'', the official '' Postal series'', some

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and Coffee Stain Studios titles, and '' Prey (2006)''. He has also been involved in porting several non-gaming products such as ''

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'' and '' Google Earth''. Some, such as ''Candy Cruncher'' and ''

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'', have been published by Linux Game Publishing. He was described alongside Edward Rudd as being "instrumental" in ensuring the multi-platform nature of the

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initiatives.

Biography

Personal life

Gordon grew up just outside

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and attended college in

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, where he resides. On January 3, 2010 he became engaged to Carrie and they were married later that year. On January 31, 2012 his wife gave birth to their first child, Olive Finch Gordon. He is also a founding member of the BareBones Theatre Group in Charlotte.

Loki Software

In 1999 Loki Software ran a contest called "Loki Hack" at the ''Atlanta Linux Showcase'', with the goal of improving the Linux port of '' Civilization: Call To Power''. Gordon decided to give it a try, driving the four-hour trip from his home to

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. Loki was impressed with his work and decided to offer him a job.Intervju: Porting games to Linux - hardware.no
/ref> Gordon quickly rose to prominence at Loki, working as a developer on the game ports of '' Kohan: Immortal Sovereigns'', ''Quake III Arena'', and '' Eric's Ultimate Solitaire'', as well as being the lead developer for ''

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'' and '' Heavy Metal: F.A.K.K.²''. In 2000 he also wrote several articles for the online Linux news and information website Linux.com. Around this time he founded ''icculus.org'', made to provide hosting for various

projects, and would later be used to support and continue some of Loki's free software projects and tools. While at Loki Software, Gordon picked his

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icculus as a reference to the fictional character from Gamehendge in the song "Icculus" by Phish.

Independent contracts

The upcoming closure of Loki forced him to seek outside employment. A friend offered him a job at his cybercafe, and he was forced to move in with his parents. Desperate to escape working a

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, he found the

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address of an artist working for the developer

Croteam Croteam is a Croatian video game developer based in Zagreb. The company was established by Davor Hunski, Damir Perović, Roman Ribarić and Dean Sekulić, four former classmates, in late August 1992. Croteam is best known for ''Serious Sam'', a ...

. They had recently released the first of their highly successful ''

Serious Sam ''Serious Sam'' is a video game series created and primarily developed by Croteam. It consists predominantly of first-person shooters. The series follows the advances of mercenary Sam "Serious" Stone against Mental, an extraterrestrial overl ...

'' series, and Gordon asked if they would be interested in him building a Linux port. They agreed, and the port's first beta was released on December 5, 2002. From there he gained other contracts such as being hired to port '' Devastation'' and '' Medal of Honor: Allied Assault'' for Linux and ''

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'' for Linux and Mac OS X. He was also contracted by Epic Games to port their ''

Unreal Tournament 2003 ''Unreal Tournament 2003'' is a first-person arena shooter video game developed by Epic Games and Digital Extremes, and published by Infogrames under the Atari brand name. The game is part of the ''Unreal'' franchise, and is a sequel to 1999's ...

'' title to

and Mac OS X, with the port being included with the packaged

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version. This business relationship continued with the release of ''

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'', and followed from the original ''Unreal Tournament'' which was ported to Linux internally by Epic but was published by Loki. Upon learning about the release of ''Postal 2'' in 2003, Gordon decided to contact the developer behind it wondering if they would be interested in him making a port of the game to Linux and Mac OS X. Loki had previously ported the original '' Postal'' to Linux, and he was interested in keeping the franchise compatible. Running with Scissors agreed, and the finished port was shipped on February 14, 2005, with Linux Game Publishing initially handling the publishing of the Linux version. Soon after he was contracted to make a Linux port for the

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title '' Lugaru: The Rabbit's Foot'', a business relationship that would later prove fruitful for Gordon. Around this time he was also contracted to build a Linux client for the online virtual world ''Second Life''.

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also utilized his services, with him being contracted to make a native Linux port of their ''Google Earth'' application, with Linux functionality finally becoming available starting with the release of the version 4 beta on June 12, 2006. In 2007 he was once again contracted by Epic Games to port their new '' Unreal Tournament 3'' title to both Linux and Mac OS X. The Linux game server was released on December 18, 2007, but work was eventually abandoned on the Linux and Mac OS X clients for reasons which remain undisclosed. In October 2008 he made the surprise announcement that he had been working on a Linux client for the

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game ''

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'', after previously porting the game's Linux server in 2006. Although there had been some speculation about a potential Linux release, it had been denied by the developer of the title in the past. The finished port was released on December 7, 2008.

FatELF, Humble Bundle, and Steam

On October 23, 2009 he announced plans to make a

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system similar to the one used on Mac OS X for Linux systems called '' FatELF''. The project generated considerable controversy, with several Linux Kernel developers decrying the effort. Gordon announced that the project was on hold in early November 2009, later stating that he would be willing to work on it again if he receives help from an interested party. Around this time he also started to port the game '' Aquaria'' to Linux for Bit Blot. On May 11, 2010 he and Wolfire Games released the source code of his code branch of '' Lugaru'' under the

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. He was also involved with the source code release of Aquaria, both of which were sold as part of the first

, which was also hosted by Wolfire. He was then contracted to port '' Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45'' to Mac OS X, stating that he could potentially port it to Linux if Steam ever released a Linux client. Gordon also generated some controversy that summer for his talk at the 2010 SouthEast LinuxFest titled "Anatomy of a Failure", where he criticized some aspects of the Kernel development process. He then ported '' Braid'' to both Linux and Mac OS X to allow it to be a part of Humble Indie Bundle 2, as well as porting the games '' Cogs'' and '' Hammerfight'' for later bundles. As part of this he ported the " Haaf's Game Engine" to Linux and Mac OS X, and released his port under a

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. He ported ''

Frozen Synapse ''Frozen Synapse'' is a turn-based tactics video game developed by independent game developer Mode 7 Games, in which players plan their moves at their leisure and turns are resolved simultaneously. Players attempt to win by giving orders to a s ...

'' to Linux to be included as the primary part of the Frozen Synapse Bundle, as well as '' Super Meat Boy'' and '' Shank'' for Humble Indie Bundle 4. During the rest of 2012 Gordon would work on several more ports for the Humble Bundles, including '' Avadon: The Black Fortress'', '' Space Pirates and Zombies'', and ''

Psychonauts ''Psychonauts'' is a 2005 platform video game developed by Double Fine Productions. The game was initially published by Majesco Entertainment and THQ for Microsoft Windows, Xbox and PlayStation 2. In 2011, Double Fine acquired the rights for t ...

''. He would also be involved in updating old releases as well as porting several new titles to Linux to be included as part of

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's Steam Linux launch, including creating Linux ports of the games ''Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45'' and '' Killing Floor'' for Tripwire Interactive. As part of the Humble Indie Bundle 7 promotion Gordon ported the title '' Dungeon Defenders'' to Linux, making it the first Linux native title to utilize

Unreal Engine 3 Unreal Engine (UE) is a 3D computer graphics game engine developed by Epic Games, first showcased in the 1998 first-person shooter game '' Unreal''. Initially developed for PC first-person shooters, it has since been used in a variety of genre ...

, the engine that debuted with the release of ''Unreal Tournament 3'' back in 2007 which Gordon had unsuccessfully tried to port to the platform. In 2013 he created an unfinished beta port of ''

Dear Esther ''Dear Esther'' is a first-person exploration and adventure video game developed by The Chinese Room for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. First released in 2008 as a free-to-play modification for the Source game engine, ...

'' to Linux to be included as part of Humble Indie Bundle 8. Gordon was one of the speakers at the first ever ''Steam Dev Days'', where he outlined how to port a game to Linux and to

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. In 2014 he ported the games ''

Goat Simulator ''Goat Simulator'' is a third-person perspective action video game developed and published by Coffee Stain Studios. It was released for Microsoft Windows in April 2014, and ports for Linux and OS X were released in June 2014. Mobile versions for ...

'' and '' Sanctum 2'' to Linux and Mac OS X for Coffee Stain Studios. On June 19, 2014 he released a new Linux port of ''

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'', a game that had previously been released for Linux using a

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wrapper as part of Humble Indie Bundle V, something that proved controversial at the time due to it not being a fully native release. In order to accomplish this Gordon also had to port

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, the audio middleware that previously prevented a native port from being possible.

icculus.org

icculus.org is Gordon's personal website and a project incubator similar to SourceForge.net, Ourproject.org or

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. Gordon is often involved in the projects hosted on his site but not universally. The site hosts port or enhancement projects for games such as '' Aliens versus Predator'', '' Jump 'n Bump'', ''

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'', ''Duke Nukem 3D'', ''Shadow Warrior'', '' Freespace 2'', '' Descent 2'', '' Black Shades'', '' Ken's Labyrinth'', ''

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'', ''

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'', '' Heretic'', '' Hexen'', cooperative ''

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'', ''

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'', ''the

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'', ''

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'' (as an ''Unreal Tournament'' mod) and the ''

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''. The site also hosts free software projects such as

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and related projects, an attempted

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re-implementation,

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for Mac OS X, and a

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client. It is also the host of the freeware CodeRED: Alien Arena project and has hosted code from the developers Blazing Games, Piga Software, Wolfire Games, and Bit Blot.

Ported titles

The following is a list of all the software that Gordon has been involved in porting, except for his game server ports. In addition to these, he has also been contracted to provide technical assistance to

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, developers of ''

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'' and '' Clockwork Empires'', and helped develop but was not solely responsible for the Linux and OS X ports of Double Fine Productions' '' Costume Quest''.

Humble Bundle

* ''Dungeon Defenders'' (Linux, 2012) * ''Psychonauts'' (Linux and Mac OS X, 2012) * ''Space Pirates and Zombies'' (Linux and Mac OS X, 2012) * ''Avadon: The Black Fortress'' (Linux, 2012) * ''Super Meat Boy'' (Linux and OS X, 2011) * ''Shank'' (Linux and Mac OS X, 2011) * ''Frozen Synapse'' (Linux, 2011) * ''Cogs'' (Linux, 2011) * ''Hammerfight'' (Linux and Mac OS X, 2011) * ''Braid'' (Linux and Mac OS X, 2010)

Independently contracted

* '' Turok: Dinosaur Hunter'' (Linux, 2018) * ''Goat Simulator'' (Linux and OS X, 2014) * ''Sanctum 2'' (Linux and OS X, 2014) * ''

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'' (Linux, 2013) * ''LIMBO'' (OS X, 2011; Linux, 2014) * ''Killing Floor'' (Mac OS X, 2010 and Linux, 2012) * ''Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45'' (Mac OS X, 2010 and Linux, 2012) * ''Aquaria'' (Linux and Mac OS X, 2008-2010) * ''Prey'' (Linux, 2008) * ''Second Life'' (Linux, 2008) * ''Google Earth'' (Linux, 2006) * ''Lugaru: The Rabbit's Foot'' (Linux, 2005; OS X) * ''Postal 2'' (Linux and Mac OS X, 2004-2005) * ''Postal'' (Linux and Mac OS X, 2005) * ''Unreal Tournament 2004'' (Linux, Mac OS X, and Win64, 2004) * '' Shadow Ops: Red Mercury'' (Win64, 2004) * ''Candy Cruncher'' (Linux, BeOS, and Mac OS, 2003) * ''America's Army'' (Linux and Mac OS X, 2002-2006) * ''Unreal Tournament 2003'' (Linux and Mac OS X, 2002) * ''Unrealty'' (Mac OS)

Mac OS X only

* ''

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'' (Mac OS X, 2005) * ''Shrek 2'' (Mac OS X, 2004) * ''Spider-Man 2'' (Mac OS X, 2004) * ''

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'' (Mac OS X, 2005) * '' Iggle Pop'' (Mac OS X) * '' Pizza Frenzy'' (Mac OS X) * '' Candy Crisis'' (Mac OS X) * IMVU client (Mac OS X) * ''Ricochet: Lost Worlds'' (Mac OS X, 2005) * '' Big Kahuna Reef'' (Mac OS X, 2005) * ''

RocketBowl ''RocketBowl'' (also ''RocketBowl Plus'') is a sports game developed by LargeAnimal and published by GarageGames, released November 4, 2004 for Windows. The game features a retro-futuristic 1950s theme. It was also released on the Xbox 360 throu ...

'' (Mac OS X, 2006). * '' Cars: Radiator Springs Adventures'' (Mac OS X, 2006) * ''Hidden Mysteries Civil War'' (Mac OS X, 2008) * ''Magic Match Adventures'' (Mac OS X, 2008) * ''Go-Go Gourmet 2'' (Mac OS X) * ''Go-Go Gourmet'' (Mac OS X, 2008) * ''Super Meat Boy'' (Mac OS X)

Loki Software

* ''Kohan: Immortal Sovereigns'' (Linux, 2001) * ''Eric's Ultimate Solitaire'' (Linux, 2000) * ''Descent 3'' (Linux, 2000) * ''Heavy Metal: F.A.K.K.²'' (Linux, 2000) * ''Quake III Arena'' (Linux, 1999)

Unfinished ports (beta)

* ''Dear Esther'' (Linux, 2013) * ''Medal of Honor: Allied Assault'' (Linux) * ''Devastation'' (Linux) * ''Serious Sam: The Second Encounter'' (Linux) * ''Serious Sam: The First Encounter'' (Linux)Serious Sam 2nd Encounter Q&A & Linux News - Blue's News
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Unreleased ports

* ''Unreal Tournament 3'' (Linux / Mac OS X)

References

External links

Ryan C. Gordon's homepage
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Biography

Personal life

Loki Software

Independent contracts

FatELF, Humble Bundle, and Steam

icculus.org

Ported titles

Humble Bundle

Independently contracted

Mac OS X only

Loki Software

Unfinished ports (beta)

Unreleased ports

See also

References

External links