Erwin Coumans
aka:
erwincoumans
Moby ID: 182064
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Erwin Coumans is Simulation team lead at Sony Computer Entertainment America.
After his study of computer science at Eindhoven University, he worked for Guerrilla Games, Blender, SCEE London and Havok in Ireland doing collision detection and physics development. Erwin is actively promoting the sharing of ideas and technology through forum discussion, open standards and open source. He is main author of the Bullet Physics Library, used by several game companies for games on XBox 360, PC, Wii and PS3.
Currently he is writing a book on advanced game physics for Morgan Kaufmann. It covers topics like continuous collision detection, iterative constraint solvers, taking advantage of multi-threaded architectures like multi-core CPUs, GPGPU and Playstation 3 Cell SPUs.
Credited on 20 games
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| Super Mega Baseball 4 (2023, Windows) | Bullet, © 2002 |
| Hot Wheels: Rift Rally (2023, PlayStation 5) | bullet |
| Iron Blade (2019, Windows) | Libraries |
| Trials Rising (2019, Windows) | Bullet Physics SDK |
| Drive Megapolis (2016, Windows) | Physics Engines |
| Champions of Regnum (2013, Windows) | Bullet Continuous Collision Detection and Physics Library |
| Tiny and Big: Grandpa's Leftovers (2012, Windows) | Bullet Continuous Collision Detection and Physics Library |
| Disney•Pixar Cars 2 (2012, Xbox 360) | Bullet Physics Library, Designed by |
| Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet (2012, Windows) | Bullet Continuous Collision Detection and Physics Library Copyright © 2003-2006 |
| Okabu (2011, PlayStation 3) | Bullet Physics |
| Greg Hastings Paintball 2 (2010, Xbox 360) | Bullet Continuous Collision Detection and Physics Library |
| Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole (2010, PlayStation 3) | Bullet Continuous Collision Detection and Physics Library |
| Grand Theft Auto: The Ballad of Gay Tony (2010, Windows) | RAGE Technology Team: Special Thanks |
| Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City (2010, Windows) | RAGE Technology Group: Special Thanks |
| Hot Wheels: Battle Force 5 (2009, Wii) | Bullet |
| Grand Theft Auto IV: The Lost and Damned (2009, Xbox 360) | RAGE Technology Team: Special Thanks |
| Grand Theft Auto IV (2008, Windows) | RAGE Special Thanks |
| Tag: The Power of Paint (2008, Windows) | Ted Special Thanks |
| Unreal Tournament III (2007, Windows) | SCEA Programming |
| The Getaway: Black Monday (2004, PlayStation 2) | Programming |
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Frequent Collaborators
People- 7 games with Jean-loup Gailly
- 7 games with Mark Adler
- 5 games with Elaine McSherry
- 5 games with Alexander Pons Carden-Jones
- 4 games with Richard Huìe
- 4 games with Lance Williams
- 4 games with Mark Wright
- 4 games with Stuart Scott
- 4 games with David Hoyte Iglesias
- 4 games with Marcus Pratt
Companies
- 10 games with Valve Corporation
- 5 games with Epic Games Tools LLC
- 5 games with Firelight Technologies Pty. Ltd.
- 4 games with Rockstar Games, Inc.
- 3 games with Microsoft Corporation
- 3 games with ak tronic Software & Services GmbH
- 2 games with GameSpy Industries Inc.
- 2 games with Rockstar North Ltd.
- 2 games with Image Metrics, Ltd.
- 2 games with Rockstar Lincoln Limited
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