Sam Oscar Lantinga was a lead software engineer at Blizzard Entertainment, where he was known to the community as Slouken. He is best known as the creator of the Simple DirectMedia Layer, a very popular open source multimedia programming library, and also developed the compatibility database for Executor, a proprietary Mac OS emulator.He previously was the lead programmer and a co-founder of the now-defunct Loki Software, which ported several game titles to Linux.