Authors and contributors

Note: Many people contribute and deserved to be recognized here, but there is no central method to do that. If you have contributed, please obtain a wiki account and update this page.

Authors

VDrift was created by Joe Venzon who continues to write nearly all the source code for the game, and created everything in the game which is not attributed to someone else below.

The physics engine in the game is the Vamos Automotive Simulator, written by Sam Varner.

Contributors

Code

• Chris Guirl set up the web sites and the Subversion repositories, and is also to blame for the SCons build scripts, XS model, some miscellaneous graphics, the GUI system, bug fixes and reports, documentation, testing, support, and generally annoying Joe.
• rookie1 wrote the automatic shifting code, and the entire artificial intelligence system. He's also fixed a few bugs here and there, and made some improvements to the track editor.
• Matthew Nicholson helps with testing and debugging, and has provided help improving the build system. He's also written a much improved error logging system which is not in use yet.
• NaN has rewritten the physics code, added car color selection, and continues to fix bugs and add new features.

Game Data

Most of the imported cars and tracks had several authors to begin with, too many to list here. Thanks to them anyway, and in general to Racer-Xtreme and the Racer community at Race Sim Central.

Cars

• Dick Maurer imported many cars from Racer and other sources, and created several too.
• cotharyus has improved the car specifications for many models using research done on the internet, as well as play testing.
• TF created the 360

Tracks

• alexr has imported several very good tracks.
• pwp71 has helped update many older tracks' parameters as new track features have become available.

Ports

• Julian Mayer ported VDrift to Mac OS X.
• Jose Alonso Cardenas Marquez manages the VDrift port for FreeBSD.
• Nathan Samson manages the VDrift port for Windows (Cygwin) and helped set up the Autopackage builder for Linux. He also added internationalization support.
• Alex (Nenillo) took care of the Windows port for a while before Nathan.

Packagers

• Szymon Ender has packaged VDrift for Slackware Linux and has helped get VDrift into Arch Linux.
• Matthew Nicholson and Gonéri Le Bouder have both worked on Debian GNU/Linux packages for VDrift.
• Gonéri Le Bouder has helped get VDrift into Arch Linux.