Ken Silverman

   

Ken Silverman (born November 1, 1975) is a game programmer best known for writing the Build engine used in Duke Nukem 3D, Redneck Rampage, and more than a dozen other games in the mid- to late-1990s. He was then considered the primary rival of John Carmack. He also created Ken's Labyrinth, completed in 1993. Contracted by Apogee Software, he started work on the engine in 1993, before his first semester at Brown University, and completed it in 1996.

Notable is his interest in Voxel Graphics which he pushed to maximum speed as can be seen in his demo voxlap. Also, he created the PNGOUT utility that, while slow, is frequently able to produce a smaller file size for any given PNG image from almost any other program, including pngcrush.

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