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Kenneth Llewellyn Demarest III is acomputer game programmer, artist, and business person.
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Demarest worked onWing Commander and developed3D,texture-mapped characters forBioForge.[citation needed] As Director of Technology atOrigin Systems, Demarest developed the technical prototype forUltima Online usingUltima VI as itscode base.[1] His later work resulted in the persistent-worldreal-time strategy gameNetStorm: Islands At War,[2] which, as of March 2016 , was being re-made in 3D asDisciples of the Storm, funded throughKickStarter.
Insocial gaming, Demarest was part of the early work blending 3D multiplayer online games and social game play both stand-alone and on networks such asFacebook andMySpace.[3]
Demarest was a founder of Appsoma, aplatform as a service forscientific analysis.[citation needed]
As an artist forShadow Garden he wrote 'Sand',[4] the most popular and frequently sold work on the platform developed by Zack Simpson. Sand is in the permanent collections of numerous museums worldwide including theDiscovery Science Center and the Sony Wonder Technology Lab. Demarest's later work supported technology that benefits humanity, including MorSand, a 2006 Tech Award Laureate,[5] and CellBazaar, a 2007Laureate.[6]
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