Caedes is an open source developer mainly interested in real time graphics, be it 2d or 3d. He has worked in the fields of blender and crystalspace for quite some time now. He has also developed gpl delvj, a program for 3d composition and algorithmix remixing of videos and images delcorp.org/delvj, based on puredata. He’s the main developer of blender2crystal, the plugin this workshop is based on, which allows one to create games using blender, the CrystalSpace engine and its entity and logic extension called CEL. These advanced tools offer a different environment for making games using blender as ide, and are more tailored toward making big games than blender’s current game engine.

Making games is a passion of Amir Taaki, and his interdisciplinary approach involves mixing a wide range of skills from physics programming, creating computer graphics and game design. He regularly reads game related design material whenever he can and is always looking for a viable system that he believes will work for OpenSource game development and believes that the future lies in a complete programmers SDK and excellent toolkits for artists that are well integrated with the game engine. In the past Amir has worked on numerous projects, and is a self taught game developer originally brought up on traditional closed source platforms and broke into game development through 3D modelling. Now he is fully committed to open platforms, believing in their superiority when utilised correctly. Currently he is working on a promising early futuristic racer project called Ecksdee (http://ecksdee.sf.net), as a content artist for a fantastic looking adventure game called Crystal Core (http://crystalcore.crystalspace3d.org) and as a Crystal Entity Layer developer.