List of notable people
This is a list of influential supaplexers and people related to history of Supaplex and BD clones.
Michael Stopp
Michael Stopp is a graphics designer who worked with Philip Jespersen and created the original Supaplex for Amiga. The intro credits screen mentions his role simply as "Graphics". The main menu credits screen credits him with making "nearly all levels".
Barbara Stopp
Barbara Stopp is a relative of Michael Stopp. She worked on the levels for the original levelset. Her credit in main menu is "Hardly any levels by Barbara Stopp".
The title of the level 28 of the original set "Babaโs Work" implies her authorship.
Phillip Jespersen
Phillip Jespersen is a software engineer who worked with Michael Stopp and created the original Supaplex for Amiga. On the intro credits screen his role is simply "Program". The main menu credits screen credits him with making "a few levels".
The title of the level 63 of the original set "Philโs First!" implies his authorship.
Robin Heydon
Robin Heydon is a software engineer who is responsible for adapting the Amiga Supaplex for PC. He also massively overhauled the game mechanics, making the PC version very different from the Amiga version.
He is credited as "PC Code" on the intro credits screen. Sometimes he is referred to as "PC Code guy".
In 2012 he wrote a book titled Bluetooth Low Energy: The Developerโs Handbook.
Learn more about Robin Heydon from his personal website on robinheydon.net domain.
David Whittaker
David Whittaker is a video game composer who created music and sound effects for the original Supaplex. He is credited with "Music/FX" on the intro credits screen.
Learn more about David Whittaker on Wikipedia.
Elmer
Maarten "Elmer" Egmond is a software engineer who worked on the SpeedFix patch for Supaplex.
Online known as Elmer and Elmer Productions.
He is the author of Igor, a video game initially envisioned as Supaplex 2.
HPerk
Herman "HPerk" Perk is a software engineer who worked on the SpeedFix patch for Supaplex.
He has a son, Dnii, who is also a supaplexer.
Learn more about Herman from his personal website at www.hpautomation.com domain.
Gregot
Greg "Gregot" Piwowarczyk is a polish supaplexer responsible for Supaplex Online. He translated Supaplex C source code to Javascript and created the vector graphics for the vector renderer. He is the current admin and sole developer of Supaplex Online and self-appointed custodian of Supaplex.
Gregot is a freelance webmaster. His birthday is January 14th.
The nickname "Gregot" is a combination of "Greg" and "Godot". It references a theatre play "Waiting for Godot" and his discomfort of making players wait for updates to Supaplex. It also references an infamous set of levels named after the theatrical play.
On December 5th 2024 Paulo Matoso transfered supaplex.com domain to Gregot.
c64cosmin
Cosmin "c64cosmin" Munteanu is a software engineer and graphics designer.
He improved some retro renderer sprites and contributed additional art to vector renderer.
He released his own BD clone called One More Gem.
Holger Schemel
Holger Schemel is a software engineer and author of Rocks'n'Diamonds. He obtained Supaplex source code in BASIC and translated it to C to include Supaplex into RโnโD. His C code later became the basis for Supaplex Online. He created new, more detailed 32x32 sprites of Supaplex objects, closely following the original 16x16 designs.
He contributed his 32x32 Supaplex graphics to Megaplex.
Online he is known as Artsoft Entertainment and simply Artsoft.
Jennifer Diane Reitz
Jennifer Diane Reitz is an American writer, webcomic author, and game designer. She is relevant to Supaplex, because of the Boppin-Supaplex connection.
Read more about Reitz on Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_Diane_Reitz
Peter Liepa
Peter Liepa is the original co-developer (with Chris Gray) of Boulder Dash, a game that created the foundations of the game genre that later spawned Supaplex.
Chris Gray
Chris Gray is the original co-developer (with Peter Liepa) of Boulder Dash, a game that created the foundations of the game genre that later spawned Supaplex.
Reactor
Reactor is a supaplexer notable for creating a modified version of Supaplex called The Master Computer. It comes with a custom levelset of 111 levels, in-game story and new graphics for game interfaces.
Also known as "TheLambdaTeam".
Lana the Snik-Snak
Lana the Snik-Snak is a supaplexer notable for running the largest and most detailed Supaplex archive. She collects and organises levels, levelsets, demos and other Supaplex related materials.
Vyacheslav V. Golosov
Vyacheslav V. Golosov is a co-developer of Winplex, a Windows-themed Supaplex clone.
Sergei V. Dunn
Sergei V. Dunn is a co-developer of Winplex, a Windows-themed Supaplex clone.
Frank Schindler
Frank Schindler is a supaplexer who worked on Megaplex.
Paulo Matoso
Paulo Matoso is a supaplexer who worked on Megaplex.
His online handle is th3pt.
He was the administrator of Supaplex Forums.
He used to own supaplex.com domain. He transferred it to Gregot in 2024.
sergiou87
Sergio "sergiou87" Padrino is a software engineer and supaplexer responsible for OpenSupaplex.
He is running a blog at https://sergiou87.github.io/
Cilliรฉ Malan
Cilliรฉ Malan is a software and hardware developer and a supaplexer. He made efforts to decompile the Supaplex executable and understand the resulting assembly code, because he was under the assumption that SpeedFix source code had been lost. The resulting assembly was used by sergiou87 as the basis for OpenSupaplex.
Wojciech Nowicki
Wojciech "WN" Nowicki is a legendary supaplexer notable for his level making skills.
WN made over 180 levels to universal acclaim. His first levelset dates back to at least 2001. He returned to activity in 2023 and is still active in 2026.
He is the admin of the Gry Logiczne website.
Dave Peck
Dave Peck is a supaplexer and indie software dev based in sunny Seattle, Washington. @dangerdave, @dsandler, Nate Cook, and Brooke Nelson
https://davepeck.org/
Kim Min-Soo
Kim Min-Soo is a legendary Supaplexer.
