Ingo Ruhnke

Ingo Ruhnke (born April 7, 1979), also known as Grumbel, is a programmer and was a computer science student at the university of Bielefeld in Germany.

Life
Ingo Ruhnke was born in Bielefeld, where he went to the comprehensive school Stieghorst. He was especially successful in math and biology. He graduated from school in 1998 and spent one year in the German army as a paramedic, which he thought was a complete waste of time.

Development philosophy
Ruhnke has a strategy for starting free game projects: Know what the aim is before announcing the project, be prepared to do all the work, don't aim too low.

He also recommends continuing existing projects, instead of creating new ones.

Game projects
Ruhnke started many projects:
 * Construo
 * Feuerkraft
 * Pingus
 * Retriever
 * Robovasion
 * Windstille

And worked on many more:
 * SuperTux
 * Tux Racer

Ingo Ruhnke also created flexlay for editing levels of several games, as well as being able to create graphics.