Leonard Ritter

Welcome to my portfolio site, an aggregate of biographical details. Questions? Drop me a mail.

Games

• Developing NOWHERE (2012 - ?), an exploration game for PC
• Released Quake Physics Pack (1998), a minor mod for the game Quake

Software

• Developing Scopes, a systems programming language (2016 - ?)
• Developing Tukan, a game engine implemented in Scopes
• Developed None, a programming language based on Lua/Terra
• Developed Beige (2012 - 2016), a Python-based 3D game engine, along several CFFI based bindings for PyPy:
• pysdl-cffi, bindings for SDL 2.0
• pyopengl-cffi, bindings for OpenGL 4+
• pysdl-cffi, bindings for OpenAL
• pystbimage, bindings for stb_image
• pystbvorbis, bindings for stb_vorbis
• pybullet-cffi, bindings for Bullet
• python-awesomium-cffi, bindings for Awesomium
• python-glm, mathematics package for OpenGL
• glue.py, an agnostic model/view toolshed
• Developed Bottleship (2011), a creative gaming oriented website
• Developed Datenwerk (2011), a generic purpose cross-platform document object model library
• Developed Jacker (2010), a MIDI tracker/sequencer for the JACK audio ecosystem
• Developed Aldrin (2007-2009), an ambitious clone of the Jeskola Buzz music sequencer for Linux
• Released mentalmilestones (2004), a music disk with 3D animated ambient graphics and prose

Sites

• Duangle, our digital entertainment company
• The NOWHERE Devlog
• My Twitter page, primary unfiltered thought outlet
• My Fritter page, thoughts about beaker browser and the dat project
• paniq.cc, electronic music act
• Work in progress and unfinished music on soundcloud

Creative Work

• Successfully raised money through crowdfunding in 2010 to produce the 11th paniq album, Beyond Good and Evil
• Demo/Music Video: Masagin (2008) [DB entry at pouet.net], ranked first place at Breakpoint 2008, four scene.org award nominations
• Demo/Music Video: Die Ewigkeit Schmerzt (2006) [DB entry at pouet.net], ranked first place at Evoke 2006, two scene.org award nominations
• Demo/Music Video: Theta (2004) [DB entry at pouet.net], won second place at The Ultimate Meeting 2004.
• Demo/Music Video: Zeitmaschine (2003) [DB entry at pouet.net], won first place at The Ultimate Meeting 2003.
• Electronic music studio act paniq since 1998, 12 albums, all music available for free online
• Designed official icon set for QuArK (initially written by Armin Rigo) in 1999

Biography

• Born 1980 and raised in Frankfurt/Main, Germany
• Began programming in 1989, using GW-BASIC
• Began composing electronic music in 1992, using Cubase ST
• Became active in the Demoscene in 1997 using the handle paniq
• Other programming languages encountered on the way:
• QBASIC
• QuickBASIC
• Delphi
• QuakeC
• C++ (favorite)
• Python
• Lua
• Java
• HTML5 (the entire toolset)
• Scopes
• Other major music programs encountered on the way:
• Scream Tracker
• Impulse Tracker
• Jeskola Buzz
• Ardour
• Began releasing creative work under Creative Commons license from 2003 on
• Entered professional work life in 2003, employed as UI developer
• Switched from Windows to Linux as primary computing platform in 2005 almost exclusively
• Picked up skills in Inkscape, which has become a permanent companion in my creative work
• Visited the Linux Audio Conference at the TU Berlin in 2007
• Moved to Hamburg, Germany in 2007 to work as game developer
• Moved to Dresden, Germany in 2011 to work in research & development
• Married Sylvia Ritter in 2011
• Co-founded Duangle with Sylvia Ritter in 2012
• Began to work on our first computer game full time in 2013