Moscow, Russian Federation

victorv@luchitz.com

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Luchitz

http://hkitchen.net/

2005-2007

E.Sc. (with Excellence) in Automated Systems of Data Processing and Computer Technologies, Moscow State Aviation Technological University.

2001-2005

B.Sc. in Informatics and Computer Science, Moscow State Aviation Technological University.

1991-2001

Moscow Secondary School 1278 (specialization in English language).

2007-now

War§ow. Engine developer.

War§ow is a multiplayer first-person shooter computer and video game. One of its most important ingredients is the ideology of cyberpunk which is achieved by cartoon-like graphics coupled with cel-shading. Future releases will feature updated graphics, which will heavily utilize GLSL for various per-pixel effects, while still abiding to the original concept.

2004-now

hmap2. Co-founder and developer.

hmap2 is a quake map compiler suite, a combination of qbsp+vis+light+bsp2prt+bspinfo utilities all in one. The suite is notable for its features and improved usability for map authors.

2002-now

qfusion. Founder, lead developer, and maintainer.

qfusion is a game engine based on sources from Quake II code. This engine has helped to set the bar for many other Quake II engine projects. A popular feature of the engine is the ability to correctly render the entire range of content for Quake III. The rendering backend was rewritten from scratch and outperforms that of Quake III on modern hardware. qfusion is also notable because War§ow, a free standalone game currently gaining popularity, is based on it. The latest release of the engine features support for per-pixel lighting using GLSL.

2002-now

ToChriS Quake. Founder, lead developer, and maintainer.

ToChriS is a game engine based on sources from Quake I code. The project was originally started to counterbalance the trend of writing 3D engines that required hardware acceleration. The engine adds new features to software rendering backend of Quake, some of them have been coded in x86 assembler.

2002

CodeRed. Developer.

CodeRed is a freeware single-player game built with the use of the Quake II game engine, which has gained excellent reviews upon its release and is still being developed and maintained (under name “Alien Arena”) by the founder.

2000-2001

Project Twilight. Developer.

Project Twilight was started as a Quake effort that focused on keeping the code clean and simple so that talented coders who wanted to help with the project would not have go through a high learning curve in order to jump into the project.

1999

Clones. Founder and lead developer.

Clones is a modification/utility that emulates Quake II clients, clones can be manipulated by a master client (one can make them shoot, jump, turn around, or follow). This utility was used in “Flesh vs Steel 2” movie for mass action scenes, which were groundbreaking at that time.

1997

RQAMod. Lead developer.

RQAMod is a modification, that has been originally used in the first series of Quake Russian League matches. It was one of the first modifications ever developed that featured a concept of team-talk triggers (i.e. sending messages to teammates automatically upon receipt of a certain item).

2006

“Difficulties in Internet Traffic Accounting on Corporate Networks”, with Sergei Gusnin and Igor Mishin, E.Sc. diploma thesis talk, published in «New Materials and Technologies. NMT-2006», vol. 2, page 140, ISBN
5-93271-398-0.

2004

“Overbright Rendering Using Multitexture Combine Extension”, game programming tutorial for Quake Standards Group.

2002

“Bots: From A to Z. Artificial Idiots for 3D Wars”, published in «Igromania» game magazine, #2 (53).

2001

“Like Father Like Son. Fundamentals of Modding”, published in «Igromania» game magazine, #11 (50).

1999

“How to Become Spielberg”, with Alexander Koloskov and Alexander Smirnov, published in «Xakep» magazine, #10.