Marek Rosa
Founder & CEO
http://blog.marekrosa.org/

His first works on game development date back to 2003 with a preliminary alpha tech demo of Miner Wars. Marek has a strong background as a freelance programmer and a team leader for large international telecom companies, so instead of joining any of the existing game development studios, Marek has decided to tread a path of his own fulfilling his Miner Wars dream.

Dan Wentz
Audio Director
http://www.danwentz.com

Dan is a game development veteran and skilled composer and sound engineer who has been in the industry from the 90's, working in Parallax Software which later became Volition Dan has an impressive record of working on over 17 AAA titles including Descent, Freespace and Red Faction series. Dan worked on their sounds, music, level design and 3D modelling. Most of the titles that Dan has been a part of are seen these days as genuine works of art.

Petr Minarik
Lead Programmer
http://fibix.org

Experienced C++/C# programmer with specialization on 3D graphics and tools for 3D environment. Petr has spent over five years in gaming industry, working on Mafia 2 (2K Czech), Memento Mori and Rock Podvrataku (Centauri Production). His responsibilities include development of our new rendering engine, LOD optimizations and 3D effects. He studied computer graphics at CTU Prague (CZE), and LIU Linköping (SE).

Filip Novy
Lead 3D Artist
http://filda.cgsociety.org/gallery/

Skilled 3D modeler and particle artist with several years' experience working as a graphic artist on AAA titles such as Mafia 2, Filip takes care of various visual aspects of Miner Wars. Take a glimpse into his gallery (website above) to get a better idea of his cool works.

Petr Zapletal
Programmer

Petr has over ten years of experience as a level designer and programmer in Czech studios such as Altar Interactive (Ufo: Aftermath) and Lonely Cat Games (Hidden & Dangerous Deluxe, Atlantica). He is a passionate online games player and is looking forward to Miner Wars MMO. He works on various Miner Wars programming tasks.

Ondrej Petrzilka
Programmer

Ondrej specializes on network programming, doing various optimizations to our server-client and database architecture. Prior to his work in Keen Software House, he worked as a freelance programmer in C# and C++. He is also interested and experienced in the fields of advanced maths and physics. Ondrej loves space simulation games with complex economic systems such as X2: The Threat and X3: Reunion.

Petr Kolda
Programmer

Petr used to design and program computer games since his high school studies, participating in many Czech game developers competitions. He has years of experience with C#, XNA, HLSL and GLSL. Prior to Keen Software House, Petr worked as a software developer of database applications.

Peter Demcak
Programmer

Peter is experienced game programmer who previously worked for Slovak company Cauldron on title Cabela’s Big Game Hunter 2012. He joined game industry 5 years ago, and worked on AI and Physics for games like Biathlon Champion 2007 and 3D Hunting 2010. In his free time, Peter enjoys programming challenges, MMO games and listening to metal music.

Martin Bauer
Programmer

Prior to his job on Miner Wars, Martin worked as programmer mainly in ASP.NET platform various software projects. His knowledge includes C#, Java and SQL. Martin is deeply interested in new technologies, including but not limited to IT. In his free time, he enjoys various sports. On Miner Wars, Martin serves mainly as a gameplay programmer.

Simon Sotak
Junior Programmer

Simon is a graduate student of computer graphics at Charles University, Prague, with deep experience in real-time physics (particle simulations). He is interested in games from early childhood and in his free time he is working on 2D indie games with his friends. Simon takes care of various graphics programming issues on Miner Wars.     

Tomas Macek
Unity 3D Programmer
http://3movegames.com/tmacek/html/portfolio.htm

A skilled programmer of architectonical visualisations, web services and computer games, currently employed as a developer of our side project Miner Wars 2.5D. He specializes on 3D software and computer games and his skills range from C/C++/C# through Java and Javascript to various scripting web and database languages. His hobbies include cycling, computer gaming, footbal and music recording.

Jan Číštín
2D Artist

Jan is our 2D Artist and thus takes care of all the HUD and GUI in the game – icons, symbols, flags, menu layout, various indicators and status bars etc. He joined our team in December 2011 and he still has a lot of work to do to make the game polished. Jan is a fresh graduate of graphic school and thus Miner Wars is his first real full time job. In his free time, besides drawing and painting, Jan loves playing board games, especially the ones themed in fantasy and science-fiction.    

Jan Absolin
3D Artist
http://janabsolin.carbonmade.com/

Jan is a talented 3D artist with many years of experience both from film industry and computer game industry, working in companies such as Illusion Softworks (Mafia), Altar Interactive (UFO: Aftermath), Design Bros (Saxana - fairy tale movie) and Disney Mobile (various game projects).

Rastko Stanojevic
3D Artist
http://www.creationsofmind.net/abishai/abishai.html

Rastko is a modeler/generalist with many years of experience in the field of 3D art, especially with creation of high-poly animations and game models. Rastko is responsible for creating models, textures and cinematics.

Jan Jirkovsky
Producer / PR Manager
http://www.syslik.net

Jan has over eight years of experience with programming, game development and journalism, having on record several freeware computer games, hundreds of game reviews and also a recently published book about game development (www.game-industry.cz). Being a skilled producer and a jack-of-all-trades in gaming industry, Jan will take care of most of the PR stuff as well as various other assignments on Miner Wars 2081.

Nick Miller
Marketing Director

Nick is a passionate PC and console gamer living in Phoenix, Arizona, and working as a computer technician. Previously he had been a Lead Beta Tester and Community Manager for Black Jacket Studios (Metal Drift). Nick is responsible for our direct contact with companies such as Intel, Zstorm, Impulse, Direct2Drive and FOG.

Ansel Leos
Community Manager
http://www.anselleos.com/

Ansel got into Miner Wars project some two years ago thanks to his love for 6DOF space games. Ansel is a student of Computer Science, taking some C# classes and paying attention to our beloved community of fans and supporters at the same time.

Peter Nespesny
Tester / QA
http://www.peternespesny.jecool.net/

Peter is a part of our team of in-house testers. His background includes various projects such as map design for Bohemia Interactive (Take On Helicopters). Besides Keen Software House, Peter works as a freelance graphic artist for interior visualisations. He is a big fan of oldschool space shooters like Elite, Frontier, Privateer and Descent.

Michal Roch
Tester / QA
http://www.gamedesign.cz

Michal is responsible for on-site testing of Miner Wars. We do a lot of testing through our community of fans and gamers, but still some testing done here in our office directly under guidance of our programmers is really resourceful. Michal has several years of experience as editor and journalist on Czech gamers and developers game sites such as Doupe.cz or GameDesign.cz.

Former Team Members

Slobodan Stevic
3D Artist
http://www.soundcloud.com/altfuture

Game artist focused on visual and audio content. Slobodan manages some of the visuals of Miner Wars and his touch is visible since the early stage of development, being one of the first volunteers to join the Miner Wars project.

Michal Stefan
Programmer
http://www.soundcloud.com/comodorre

Michal takes care of the in-game editor and level design. He is a passionate gamer and has over 7 years' experience with software development. Previously Michal worked on various Half-Life mod projects as a level builder and is a hobby music composer.

Lukas Zdenek
Game Mechanics Programmer

Freelance programmer and a hobby game developer for about fifteen years, Lukas worked on his first big commercial game project with Black Element Software (Carrier Command) in 2009 as an enviromental designer, tactical AI scripter and level designer. In 2011, Lukas joined Keen Software House as a game mechanics programmer.

Corporate History

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