Ryan Holtz
Real name |
Ryan Alexander Holtz[1] |
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Date of birth |
August 5, 1985 (age 38) |
Occupation |
Game developer |
Nationality |
American[2] |
Languages |
English, French[3] |
Known for |
Colored lighting video |
Website |
"Mog's Musings"[10] (defunct) |
Reddit name | |
X (Twitter) username | |
Bug tracker profile | |
Youtube channel | |
Minecraftforum.net name | |
Minecraft name |
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Ryan Holtz is a former game developer at Mojang Studios who worked on the rendering engine of Minecraft. His employment at Mojang was announced on November 2, 2013 at the "Future of Minecraft" panel at MINECON 2013.[11] His first day at the Mojang office was November 18, 2013.[12]
Biography[edit | edit source]
Holtz is from Buffalo, New York.[13] In his early teens, he was diagnosed with autism. He says he "technically [has] "Autism Level 1" according to the DSM-V, which is the new name for Asperger's."[14]
Holtz is a graduate of East Tennessee State University in computer science,[1] who has been involved in the video game industry since 2005.[11] He started his career at EA Tiburon working on Superman Returns, then later for Activision at Vicarious Visions working on the Guitar Hero series.[1][15]
Holtz is well known for his Minecraft mods, which he posted on the Minecraft Forums under the name UltraMoogleMan.[11][16] His modding led to talks with Markus Persson about the implications of increasing Minecraft's then world height of 128.[17]
On January 29, 2015, Holtz announced on his Twitter page if anyone knew of any game studios in Stockholm that are hiring.[18] While the tweet did not make it clear whether or not this was the truth or simply a joke, the employees page on the Mojang Support website no longer stated him as a game developer.
On February 8, 2015, Mojang confirmed Holtz is no longer an employee,[19] but did not release a formal announcement about it.
On April 1, 2015, Holtz announced that he was hired by King to help develop Candy Crush Soda Saga.[20] He confirmed that it was not a joke the next day.[21]
Trivia[edit | edit source]
- Holtz's Minecraft skin is a moogle from the Final Fantasy game series.[22] Holtz says "[He's] been considering making a custom player renderer just for [his] model so [he] can have proper moogle wings, similar to Nathan's model being upside-down, but [he] just can't seem to find the time."[23]
- Holtz has also played the trombone.[24]
- Holtz implemented rabbits.
- Holtz added the old Customized world type, which was an adaptation of his mod Wedge.
Gallery[edit | edit source]
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Holtz's Twitter avatar.
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Holtz showing his skin.
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Holtz showing his cape.
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ a b c https://web.archive.org/web/20131112124927/http://www.batcountryentertainment.com/team.html
- ↑ "@Pyroarcher99 American, born and raised" – @TheMogMiner (Ryan Holtz) on X (formerly Twitter), November 7, 2013
- ↑ "I like being the de facto francophone Mojangster. Everyone poked fun at me for taking French instead of Spanish, now who has the last laugh?" – @TheMogMiner (Ryan Holtz) on X (formerly Twitter), November 6, 2013
- ↑ "Hooray: http://i.imgur.com/SYqd70E.png Hooray again: http://i.imgur.com/fsZKAqe.png Hooray (two in one!): http://i.imgur.com/KgSuIge.png" – @TheMogMiner (Ryan Holtz) on X (formerly Twitter), November 19, 2013
- ↑ "Last screenshot of the year, a bouncy block that wasn't possible before @TheMogMiner's transparency render fix: http://i.imgur.com/kl66PIp.png" – @jeb_ (Jens Bergensten) on X (formerly Twitter), December 20, 2013
- ↑ "I made a thing!" – @TheMogMiner (Ryan Holtz) on X (formerly Twitter), April 22, 2014
- ↑ "Just a quick update, you folks asked for the ability to select a specific biome, so I went and did that too:" – @TheMogMiner (Ryan Holtz) on X (formerly Twitter), April 22, 2014
- ↑ "A hint about one of the bugs I fixed for this week's snapshot, which should make people happy: http://i.imgur.com/t218sP5.png" – @TheMogMiner (Ryan Holtz) on X (formerly Twitter), April 30, 2014
- ↑ "@iTouchMasterPro Almost! Just particles for now. :D" – @TheMogMiner (Ryan Holtz) on X (formerly Twitter), April 30, 2014
- ↑ "Yay, my new site is up! http://polygonal-moogle.com/uncategorized/on-sweden/ …" – @TheMogMiner (Ryan Holtz) on X (formerly Twitter), May 25, 2014
- ↑ a b c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttBSiK01Mdg&t=26m34s
- ↑ "Woo, just realized it's the one-month anniversary of me starting here (my first technical day was 18 November)! Wooooooo!" – @TheMogMiner (Ryan Holtz) on X (formerly Twitter), December 18, 2013
- ↑ "@MikeSloanCreate Buffalo NY, just bordering Canada. Lake effect snow equals 1m or more of snow every winter. Hardens you up real fast." – @TheMogMiner (Ryan Holtz) on X (formerly Twitter), May 8, 2014
- ↑ "@Blingdaddy1 Technically I have "Autism Level 1" according to the DSM-V, which is the new name for Asperger's. Diagnosed in 1998." – @TheMogMiner (Ryan Holtz) on X (formerly Twitter), November 5, 2013
- ↑ "@PoiPoiChen By contrast, I know way too much about Aerosmith, having worked on Guitar Hero: Aerosmith Wii. :D" – @TheMogMiner (Ryan Holtz) on X (formerly Twitter), April 28, 2014
- ↑ "@Mogswamp I've gone as UltraMoogleMan longer than many Minecraft players have been alive, dawg" – @TheMogMiner (Ryan Holtz) on X (formerly Twitter), November 8, 2013
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/0/http://notch.tumblr.com/post/7799649091/sharing-an-interesting-email
- ↑ "So, anyone know of any game studios in Stockholm that are hiring? :)" – @TheMogMiner (Ryan Holtz) on X (formerly Twitter), January 29, 2015
- ↑ "@MushirMickeyJoe This is correct. ^OZ" – @mojangsupport on X (formerly Twitter), February 8, 2015
- ↑ "Loving it here at @King_Games on the Candy Crush Soda Saga team! Game on!" – @TheMogMiner (Ryan Holtz) on X (formerly Twitter), March 31, 2015
- ↑ "You know what the funny thing is, my tweet yesterday actually wasn't an April Fool's joke, but people thought it was. :)" – @TheMogMiner (Ryan Holtz) on X (formerly Twitter), April 2, 2015
- ↑ "@Idkartist3D Final Fantasy moogle" – @TheMogMiner (Ryan Holtz) on X (formerly Twitter), November 5, 2013
- ↑ "Nah, giving ourselves special weapons or diamonds or whatnot wouldn't really be good for the community. I've been considering making a custom player renderer just for my model so I can have proper moogle wings, similar to Nathan's model being upside-down, but I just can't seem to find the time. Plus I'm pretty happy with the existing moogle skin I found." – 19, 2014 u/April 19, 2014 on Reddit
- ↑ "I played trombone in school from 4th grade through university, and this never fails to bring a tear to my eye" – @TheMogMiner (Ryan Holtz) on X (formerly Twitter), December 27, 2014
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