About Alan LentonAlan Lenton is responsible for game design, development, and overall technical matters for Interactive Broadcasting. Unusually, for a multi-player game designer, Alan has also written single-player computer games, including the well-received strategy wargame Frontline. Alan has extensive management, publishing and software design experience, having worked as a graphic designer, the manager of a bookshop, the production editor of a London listings magazine and as the manager of a rock band. He was for three years general manager of the UK's first commercial consumer network, Compunet, before leaving to concentrate on writing IB's award-winning massively multi-player game Federation. |
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| Alan designed and wrote the underlying networking and encryption code for the ground breaking 3D online poker client produced by Pokerwise (formerly Bits Studios) and worked as game server architect at SkillGaming Ltd, where he was responsible for all the functional and non-functional aspects of their third person online shooter, 'Mettle'. He is currently the technical team lead at Digital Governance Ltd.
Alan holds a degree in sociology from Leeds University, and with the community built around Federation available for study, continues to be a practicing sociologist! Alan's current professional interests include information technology security, online privacy, C++ programming, and online games design. Alan lives in London, is a member of the British Standards Institute C++ panel and was member of the Institute's 'C' language panel at the time of the production of the original ANSI/ISO C standard. A long-standing member and former secretary of the Association of C & C++ Users, he has acted as a mentor for programmers learning C++ on their own. Alan is a regular speaker at conferences and seminars, discussing issues affecting multi-player games, open source software, and the Internet. He is a long standing member of the ACCU's Conference Organising Committee, and, as the specialist track organiser, has organised one and two day tracks on topics as diverse as security programming, dynamic languages, open source development, distributed collaboration, and functional programming. Alan's CV is available on request (alan@ibgames.com - please include the word 'fed2' in the subject line). Alan is actively involved in the local community and has held a number of positions on voluntary bodies in the past, including chair of a local housing cooperative, chair of governors of the local primary school, chair of the local community police committee, and a trustee of Hounslow and Isleworth United Charities. Alan's personal interests include good books, good food and fine wine. The illustration on this page is taken from 'The Bookworm' by Carl Spitzweg.
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