Kurt Pelzer turned his passion for software development and visual arts into his occupation - acting as a Software Engineer in the 3D Real-Time Simulation & Game Industry. Kurt works with Piranha Bytes and some other contracting partners in Germany. He has been involved in all stages of development from conceptual and technical design, to implementation, debugging and testing.Over the past two decades Kurt has been credited on successfully released and awarded software projects, esp.: Gothic, Gothic II + AddOn: The Night of the Raven, Gothic 3, Risen, Risen 2: Dark Waters, Risen 3, Elex and Elex II. Kurt also helped to start up the new company Nevigo and their development tools & middleware. And, in the early 2K years, he developed at Codecult Software the well-known Codecreatures Benchmark and an exclusive third-party demo for NVIDIA (used for GeForce 4 Ti launch).In addition to his work as a developer, Kurt is an author of technology articles published in the leading software book series for game developers: GPU Gems, Game Programming Gems and ShaderX.Kurt’s talent is his most valuable asset. The strong sense for improvements and innovations is his driving force, always looking to the future and the opportunities ahead.