john calhoun
April 29th, 2004
John Calhoun is the author of my favorite game ever for the Macintosh,
Glider, the first version of which appeared in 1988. Other games he
wrote include Glypha, Stella Obscura, MacTuberling, Pararena, Spaceway
2000 (co-authored with Jeff Robbin), and Silicon Casino. Ten bucks says
you didn’t know he now works on Apple Computer’s graphics team. Among
other things, he was responsible for the rewrite of Preview in OS X 10.3
that, in my humble opinion, kicks Adobe Reader’s ass.I recently talked to
him over email about the genesis of Glider and his career as game
author.