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.

• Roles:
  • Computer Engineer by day
  • Co-Founder of Voidpoint
  • Technical Director of Ion Fury
  • EDuke32 (+ VoidSW + NBlood + ...) Senior Developer
  • Director of Shadow Warrior: Deadly Kiss restoration project
  • Admin at Duke4.net (Forums & Discord)
  • Staff at Blood Community Discord
• Additional 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
    • 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
  • 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
  • Packaged new canonical versions of the Duke 3D expansions for the 3D Realms Anthology and ZOOM Platform
  • Recovered and restoring Shadow Warrior: Deadly Kiss
  • 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.
• 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