Leonard Ritter
Welcome to my portfolio site, an aggregate of specs and achievements. Questions? Drop me a mail.
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:
- Other major music programs encountered on the way:
- Began releasing creative work under Creative Commons license from 2003 on exclusively
- Entered professional work life in 2003, employed as UI developer
- Switched from Windows to Linux as primary computing platform in 2005 almost exclusively, a political choice
- 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 as mobile application developer
- Married Sylvia Ritter in 2011
- Currently employed as developer for a software consulting company
Creative Work
Software
- Released Quake Physics Pack (1998), a minor mod for the game Quake
- Released mentalmilestones (2004), a music disk with 3D animated ambient graphics and prose
- Developed Aldrin (2007-2009), an ambitious clone of the Jeskola Buzz music sequencer for Linux
- Developed Jacker (2010), a MIDI tracker/sequencer for the JACK audio ecosystem
- Developed Datenwerk (2011), a generic purpose cross-platform document object model library
- Developing Bottleship (2011-?), a creative gaming oriented website
Sites