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Sam Lantinga

American video game programmer

  • Audience506
  • Fame57.9
  • Momentum12.3
  • Wikipedia600
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Born 1974 · age 52United States
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    Born 1974
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Updated 2026-08-19

Sam Oscar Lantinga is a computer programmer. He used to be the 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.

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57.9
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Momentum12.3
Historical8.1
Source confidence65.0
Completeness70.0
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