User:Hendricks266

My name is Evan. I have been a member of Duke4.net since 2009, a developer of EDuke32 since 2011, and I co-founded Voidpoint in 2014. This page is my CV for the communities I am a part of, the roles in which I serve, and my accomplishments. (For a more formal CV, see my LinkedIn below.)

Roles:
- Computer Engineer by day
- Voidpoint Co-Founder
- Ion Fury Technical Director
- EDuke32 (+ VoidSW + NBlood + ...) Senior Developer
- Shadow Warrior: Deadly Kiss Restoration Director
- Admin at Duke4.net (Forums & Discord)
- Staff at Blood Community Discord
Highlights of my involvement:
- Helped with high-profile mods for EDuke32 by implementing vital source port functionality and contributing to their construction
  - Duke Nukem 64 Mod
  - Duke Nukem: Total Meltdown Mod
  - Duke Hard
  - Duke Nukem 3D High Resolution Pack
    - Duke Caribbean: Life's a Beach Plus
    - Duke: Nuclear Winter Plus
    - Shadow Warrior High Resolution Pack
  - faithful music replacement packs for EDuke32
    - Duke Nukem 3D for Sega Saturn Music Pack
    - Duke Nukem: Total Meltdown PlayStation Music Pack
    - Duke Nukem 64 Music Pack
  - Duke Nukem 3D: 20th Anniversary World Tour Stopgap Compatibility Layer for EDuke32
- Spearheaded VoidSW, the preeminent source port for Shadow Warrior
- Credited in Duke Nukem 3D: Megaton Edition and Shadow Warrior Classic Redux
- Developer on Duke Nukem 3D: Hail to the King Collection (canceled)
- Entrusted with Apogee & 3D Realms prototypes/betas
  - Successfully organized releases for Shadow Warrior, Strife, Major Stryker, Bio Menace, Halloween Harry
  - Authored the 3D Realms Beta Trailer
  - Broke copy protections on 100+ .zip and .exe files
  - Extended the FakeDate TSR by Lee Killough to accept an arbitrary date as a command line parameter
- Created a tool that can extract and decompile the CON bytecode from all known versions of Duke Nukem 64 and Duke Nukem: Total Meltdown
- Packaged new canonical versions of the Duke 3D expansions for the 3D Realms Anthology and ZOOM Platform
- Recovered and restoring Shadow Warrior: Deadly Kiss
- Cobbled together FlappyWang
- Formalized our development principles
Media:
- DF Retro Extra - Ion Fury Tech Interview (2018) - I was interviewed by John Linneman from Digital Foundry about the creation of Ion Fury and the experience of working with the Build Engine in modern times from a technical perspective. I was joined by Frederik Schreiber, VP of our publisher, 3D Realms.
- Cola Powered Gamer exclusive interview with Ion Fury team (2021) - I spoke with Indie Retro News about the background of Ion Fury and the experience of serving as Technical Director on the project. My colleague Max Ylitalo, Lead Level Designer, joined me for the second half.
- I have a MobyGames page apparently.
Stuff I've done for other game communities:
- Helped my friend RoyBatty build the 4GB FNV Updated Loader for Fallout: New Vegas
  - The mod entry on NexusMods with my credit attached is still in the top 50 all-time downloaded mods for the game despite the fact that I've never played it!
- Created the initial version of the MOTHER 3 Ultimate Music Rip, since supplanted by an update by JumpmanFR
- Constructed a .vgm pack for Shining Force Gaiden ~Final Conflict~
  - Also contributed one track to the Sonic 3 & Knuckles VGM rip from the Sonic 3C 0517 Prototype
Contact:
- email: hendricks266+edukewiki at gmail dot com
- X (née Twitter): https://x.com/Hendricks266
- Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/hendricks266.bsky.social
- GitHub: https://github.com/Hendricks266
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/evanramos/
- Linktree: https://linktr.ee/Hendricks266

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EDuke32 Developer