User:Wohlstand

Wohlstand, is an owner and creator of the PGE project. Engineer, musician and programmer.

Nickname
"Wohlstand" - is a German word, translated as "affluence, prosperity".

History
Wohlstand began to program in .BAT language for DOS to write interactive menus and installers with using of ANSI.SYS which adding support of escape sequences. Escape sequences giving able to set color text, change position of cursor, draw another text over already written.

While he studding in school he got music knowledge and skills with recorder flute and later with accordion. He uses his music skills in making of MIDI files with old version of Cakewalk Sonar. Later he started to learn HTML, JavaScript and ASP of Sambar Server with C-Script language. Later Wohlstand started to learn PHP and when he joined into university in 2010'th year, he also got a skills with C++.

Hedgewars
Hedgewars - is a turn based strategy game made by UnC0Rr. Before he was found it in Wikipedia, Wohlstand was play in the Worms World Party with friends on his laptop. Wohlstand joined into Hedgewars community where he was found a new friends and colleagues. Wohlstand wrote a chat bot for Hedgewars server after his friend Terror wrote a first Hedgewars chat bot on FreePascal. Later a similar bots was written in Python by Firefox2013, by Fanat and in Java by S.D.. Wohlstand contributing to Hedgewars project with helping with some tests and content: he made a localized voice pack in Russian language, made some tests with Hedgewars Server and made attempt to port a frontend application from Qt4 to Qt5.

SMBX
In November 12, 2013 year, while he looking for random pictures about Mario Universe he was found a demo version of developing Sarasaland Adventure 2 game by Otabo and later he got a Sarasaland Adventure 1 game on the same RPGMaker.net. This is a day when he was learn about SMBX game engine. Later while he got too much slow game process, lags and bugs, he tried to find author of project - Redigit, but he also learn about abandonment of SMBX development in 2011'th year. Later he was started a big project of game engine which will be fully compatible with old and will be faster, more stable, more flexible and cross-platform like Hedgewars game - a favorite Wohlstand's game. First Wohlstan's announcement about starting of PGE Project was posted as comment under old SMBX trailer in the YouTube.

PGE Project
Wohlstand founded PGE Project in February 2013 but he haven't started development because he was work with first researching of SMBX tech which most important for development process. When he completed research work of SMBX, he was started development of Editor. Wohlstand was opened site and forums where he invited his old friends from Hedgewars: Nexia(sparkles), Fanat, Firefox2013 and also h2643 joined as first forum administrator. In April Wohlstand met with Kevsoft which now is Co-Developer of common project.

LunaDLL
LunaDLL is the name given of the hex hack of SMBX made by Kil. Wohlstand collected sources of library on his server, but later Kevsoft got desire to improve it with adding of Lua scripting system. Unlike Autocode, Lua is a full featured script language library which providing flexible scripting system. Later Wohlstand and Kevsoft are added SDL2_mixer library which improving music and sound playback in the SMBX and also adding support of new music formats.