Portrait: Alien Arena creator John Diamond
John Diamond is the creator and lead developer of the popular free software game Alien Arena. He turned his hobbies and a talent for coding into a small business.
Diamond, in his early 40s, lives about 30 miles north of Baltimore with his wife Courtney, and twp cats, Sasha and Sheena. By day, he works as a developer of AutoCAD-based electrical design applications. In his spare time, he is the founder and CEO of COR Entertainment, a small independent game company.
While he was in high school, Diamond spent time with friends after school trying to write software for the Apple IIc to emulate their favorite arcade games, such as Robotron, Pac Man, Donkey Kong, and Centipede. He attended Loyola College in Baltimore, studying electrial engineering, but left school before graduating. He did computer hardware repair and network management for six years before settling into the software development job he has held the past 11 years.
It wasn't until the '90s, when id Software began to release its first-person shooter (FPS) games as free software, that Diamond really got into game programming.
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