Steven Polge is an American computer game programmer, the main coder behind the Unreal series of games, by Epic Games. Polge was hired by Epic in 1997 after creating the Reaper Bots for Quake. In addition to programming on the franchise, he served as lead designer on Unreal Tournament 3 and has been credited on other Epic titles such as Gears of War, Shadow Complex and Infinity Blade.Steve is currently working on a new, free and crowdsourced Unreal Tournament title.