Credits

In July 2003, David White released the first version of Wesnoth. Since then, many people have joined the project, contributing in very different ways.

Developers

Coders, (minor and major)

• Alfredo Beaumont (ziberpunk) - autotools
• András Salamon (ott) - QA, bug fixing, subediting, game mechanics
• Benoît Timbert (Noyga) - coder
• Bram Ridder (Morloth) - editor improvements
• Bruno Wolff III - Campaign web interface, The Dark Hordes maintainer, bug fixing, minor coder
• Cédric Duval - coder, internationalization manager
• David Philippi (Torangan) - internationalization manager, wescamp
• David White (Sirp) - founder, lead developer, scenario designer
• Dominic Bolin (Xan) - programmer
• Guillaume Melquiond (silene) - coding, bug fixes
• Jérémy Rosen (Boucman) - coder
• Jörg Hinrichs (Yogi Bear/YogiHH) - coder
• Jon Daniel (forcemstr) - coder, bug fixes
• J.W.C. McNabb (Darth Fool) - coder, graphics
• Justin Zaun (jzaun) - coder, scenario designer
• Kristoffer Erlandsson (erl) - help system, editor
• Nicolas Weeger (ryo) - Python API
• Patrick Parker (Sapient) - misc. gui changes, orphaned-idea adopter
• Philippe Plantier (Ayin) - several parts of the code, notably terrain graphics code
• Yann Dirson - gettext support, tinygui

Miscellaneous

• Benjamin Drieu (benj) - campaign writer (wrote "Son of the Black Eye")
• Bartek Waresiak (Dragonking) - multiplayer balancing
• Crossbow/Miyo - administrator, release manager
• Francisco Muñoz (fmunoz) - artwork manager, many images, scenario designer (also listed below)
• Hogne Håskjold (frame) - terrain designer (also listed below)
• Isaac Clerencia - administrator, release manager, debian packager
• James Spencer (Shade) - campaign writer (wrote "The Rise of Wesnoth")
• Joseph Simmons (Turin) - campaign writer, some graphics (wrote "The Eastern Invasion," and others)
• Mark Michelsen (skovbaer) - internationalization manager
• Mike Quiñones (Doc Paterson) - multiplayer balancing, multiplayer maps
• Nils Kneuper (Ivanovic) - administrator, campaign maintainer (Two Brothers), internationalization manager, release manager
• Richard Kettering (Jetryl) - artwork manager, many images (also listed below)
• Richard S. (Noy) - multiplayer balancing
• Soliton - multiplayer balancing
• Susanna Björverud (sanna) - internationalization manager
• Zack Kleinfeld - multiplayer maps, unit balancing

Unclassified

• Jan Zvánovec (jaz)
• John B. Messerly (jbm)
• Jordà Polo (ettin)
• J.R. Blain (Cowboy)
• Maksim Orlovich (SadEagle)
• Zas

Artists

Major Contributors

• Francisco Muñoz (fmunoz) - Founding Artist and former lead artist, worked consistently on all aspects till around v0.7-0.9.
• Richard Kettering (Jetryl) - Current art director/slave, major focus on sprites, portraits, buildings, and icons
• Hogne Håskjold (frame/freim) - Current director of terrain art, made much of the current terrains (esp. mountains)
• J. W. Bjerk (Eleazar) - terrain (esp Chasm, Cave, Water), sprite animations, various visual tweaks
• Pekka Aikio (pekka) - tiles, esp. castles, and attack icons
• Lari Nieminen (zookeeper) - Current sprite animation director and WML wizard
• James Woo (Pickslide) - portraits (major focus on orcs and campaigns, especially UtBS, TEI, TSoF)
• Jason Lutes - portraits (major focus on humans, some campaign portraits)
•  ?? (Neoriceisgood) - sprite creator and animator (major focus on drakes, dwarves, saurians)
• Peter Geinitz (Shadow/Wayfarer) - sprite creator and animator

Moderate Contributors

• Alex Jarocha-Ernst (Jormungandr) - portraits
• Moritz Göbelbecker (mog) - tiles, esp. swamp, encampment, ice, and work with lava/chasm
• Erkki Lonkainen (Eternal) - created and animated many replacement sprites (esp. ogre, orc assassin & spear units, and cockatrice)
• Maximiliano Buis (Redeth) - Made nearly all of the idle animations, and some death animations (as of 1.3.1)
• Leonhard ? (Leonhard) - made several of the new attack icons
• Michael Gil de Muro (grp21) - portraits (for the campaign "The Rise of Wesnoth")
• Robert Bolin (Zebulon) - tiles, sprite editing and animations
• Christophe Anjard (Christophe33) - made many of the old (c. v0.6) terrains, and some sprites for the dwarves
• Johann de Venecia (Johann) - drew the new campaign story art for HttT
• Mark Goodenough (Ranger M) - Sprite animator

Minor Contributors

• Eli Dupree (Elvish Pillager) - sprites and animations
• Murray Cook (Zhukov) - Sprite animator
• Gerald Clears (Smok'em Jags) - sprite animator
• Jesse Holland (Kestenvarn) - map illustrator, designed the current map for HttT
• Mikko Kraft (Deserter) - Sprite animator
• Michael Mielewczik (Mille) - Sprite animator
• Stephen Stone (Disto) - Sprite animator
• Andrew James Patterson (Kamahawk) - sprites
• Diego Brea (Cobretti) - sprite creator/animator
•  ?? (antwerpz) - sprite creator/animator for old saurian units
• Gareth Miller (Gafgarion) - made some early sprites/tiles
• James Barton (Sangel) - sprites
• John Muccigrosso (Eponymous Archon) - made some early sprites, such as the human bowmen
•  ?? (Slainte) - made sprites for c. v0.6 mages, also made many of the old attack icons
•  ?? (Svetac) - made many of the old attack icons
• Johanna Manninen (lohari) - edited tiles, ported freeciv tiles used in very early versions of wesnoth
• Tristan Millner (tatmf) - made portrait of dwarven fighter
• EEL (EELuminatus) - Made death animations for the wose line.
• Eric Holdos (Rev. V!) - Made a few extra frames for the elvish captain/hero.

Very Minor Contributors

• Gideon Chia (Deonjo) - new "units" icon for general status bar
• John-Robert Funck (XJaPaN) - sprite animator
• Anton Ecker (Kaldred) - burnt villages
• Jonatan Alamà (tin) - made red logo used until before v1.0
• Jimmy Olsson (Azlan) - made old icons for windows version
• Randall Walls (slightcrazed) - sprite animator
• Jason Frailey (Valdroni) - made scorpion portrait
• Nicholas Kerpan (Thrawn) - made human theif portrait
•  ?? (Highhole) - revised storm trident
• Irwin Ismail (Swordy) - original projectile/attack icon for chakram
• Evan Crook (Flametrooper) - Sprite animator (TC conversion)
• Daniel Borgmann (dborg) - semi-transparent map grid
• Garrett Wessner (Stilgar) - gold coin-pile

Musicians

• Aleksi Aubry-Carlson (Aleksi) - music coordinator/composer
• Joseph Toscano (zhaymusic.com) - music
• Pau Congost - music
• Fredrik Lindroth - music
• Timothy Pinkham (TimothyP) - music coordinator/composer

Translators

• adson - hungarian translation
• İhsan Akın - turkish translation
• Agata Chmiel - polish translation
• Aleksej Korgenkov (Grimpanto) - esperanto translation
• Alessio D'Ascanio (otaku) - italian translation
• Alexander Alexiou (Santi) - greek translation
• Alexander Kjäll (capitol) - swedish translation
• Alexandr Menovchicov - russian translation
• Alexey Remizov - russian translation
• Alexey Zakharchenko - russian translation
• Alfredo Beaumont (ziberpunk) - basque translation
• Ambra Viviani Loos - brazilian portuguese translation
• Americo Iacovizzi (DarkAmex) - italian translation
• Anders K. Madsen (madsen) - danish translation
• András Salamon (ott) - afrikaans, english and hungarian translation
• Andre Schmidt (schmidta) - german translation
• Anežka Bubeníčková (Bubu) - czech translation
• Ankka - finnish translation
• Anton Tsigularov (Atilla) - bulgarian translation
• Arkadiusz Danilecki (szopen) - polish translation
• Arnaud Garoux (La vie en wose) - french translation
• Arne Deprez - dutch translation
• Artur R. Czechowski - polish translation
• Åse Petersson (tintin) - swedish translation
• Aurélien Brevers (Breversa) - french translation
• Azamat Hackimov (winterheart) - russian translation
• Bartek Waresiak (Dragonking) - polish translation
• Beer (Eddi) - hungarian translation
• Benoit Astruc - french translation
• Benoît Timbert (Noyga) - french translation
• Bjarke Sørensen (basher) - danish translation
• BlueStar - japanese translation
• Boris Stumm (quijote_) - german translation
• BOrsuk - polish translation
• Branko Kokanovic (kokan) - serbian translation
• Bruno Fève (PP) - french translation
• Časlav Ilić - serbian translation
• Cédric Duval - french translation
• Carles Company (brrr) - catalan translation
• Celso Goya - brazilian portuguese translation
• Christoph Berg (chrber) - german translation
• Claudio Terra - brazilian portuguese translation
• Claus Aranha - brazilian portuguese translation
• crys0000 - italian translation
• Dan Rosàs Garcia (focks) - catalan translation
• Damien Jacquot - french translation
• Daniel López (Azazelo) - catalan translation
• DaringTremayne - french translation
• David Martínez Moreno - spanish translation
• David Nečas (Yeti) - czech translation
• dentro - hungarian translation
• Denica Mincheva - bulgarian translation
• Enes Akın (yekialem) - turkish translation
• Erik J. Mesoy (Circon) - norwegian translation
• Eugenio Favalli (ElvenProgrammer) - italian translation
• Federico Tomassetti - italian translation
• Flamma - spanish translation
• Florence Guettaa (inflow) - french translation
• Foppe Benedictus - dutch translation
• Francesco Lorenzon (Likso) - esperanto translation
• Franciso Muñoz (fmunoz) - spanish translation
• François Mariage (Paquito) - french translation
• François Orieux - french translation
• Gabriel Rodríguez (Chewie) - spanish translation
• Gaute Jao (Bombadil) - norwegian translation
• Geoffroy Douillié (Gdou) - french translation
• Georgi Dimitrov (oblak)- bulgarian translation
• Gérard Bodin - french translation
• Gerfried Fuchs (Alfie) - german translation
• Gilluin - hungarian translation
• Guillaume Duwelz-Rebert - french translation
• Guillaume Massart (Piou2fois) - french translation
• Guillaume Melquiond (silene) - french translation
• Hallvard Norheim Bø (Lysander) - norwegian translation
• Harry Kaimenas - greek translation
• Håvard Korsvoll - norwegian translation
• Huang huan (unicon) - chinese translation
• Hugo Gerlach (Entrimo) - swedish translation
• Ilya Kaznacheev - russian translation
• Ilya Kotov - russian translation
• Ivan Kovacs - slovak translation
• isazi - italian translation
• Iván Herrero (navitux) - spanish translation
• Jaka Kranjc (lynx) - slovenian translation
• Jan Greve (Jan) - german translation
• Jan-Heiner Laberenz (jan-heiner) - german translation
• Jean Privat (Tout) - french translation
• Jean-Luc Richard (Le Gnome) - french translation
• Jehan Hysseo (Jey) - french translation
• Jérémy Rosen (Boucman) - french translation
• Jesper Fuglsang Wolff (ulven) - danish translation
• Joan Queralt - catalan translation
• Joe Hansen - danish translation
• Joeri Melis - dutch translation
• Jonatan Alamà (tin) - catalan translation
• Jordà Polo (ettin) - catalan translation coordinator
• Jose Gordillo (kilder) - spanish and catalan translation
• Jose Manuel Gomez (joseg) - spanish translation
• Joset Anthony Zamora (sophie^) - filipino translation
• Julien Moncel - french translation
• Julien Tailleur - french translation
• Julen Landa (genars) - basque translation
• Jussi Rautio (jgrr) - finnish translation
• Kai Ensenbach (Pingu) - german translation
• Kékkői László (BlackEvil) - hungarian translation
• Karol Nowak (grzywacz) - polish translation
• Katerina Sykioti - greek translation
• Kertész Csaba - hungarian translation
• Khiraly - hungarian translation
• Kim Woong (Kazya) - korean translation
• kko - finnish translation
• Konstantinos Karasavvas - greek translation
• Konstantinos Egarhos - greek translation
• Kosif - turkish translation
• Kovács Dániel - hungarian translation
• krix - hungarian translation
• Lala - dutch translation
• Leo Danielson (Lugo Moll) - swedish translation
• Luciano Montanaro (Luciano) - italian translation
• Lukáš Faltýnek - czech translation
• Ľubo Fajth - esperanto translation
• Maarten Albrecht - dutch and esperanto translation
• Mark Michelsen (skovbaer) - danish translation
• Mark Polo (mpolo) - latin translation
• Mark Recasens - catalan translation
• Mart Tõnso - estonian translation
• Martin Dzbor - slovak translation
• Martin Šín - czech translation
• Matej Repinc - slovenian translation
• Mathias Bundgaard Svensson (freaken) - danish translation
• Matias Parmala - finnish translation
• methinks - polish translation
• Michał Jedynak (Artanis) - polish translation
• Michał Ligowski (misiorysio) - polish translation
• Michel Loos - brazilian portuguese translation
• Michel Poléni (Thanatloc) - french translation
• Mikel Olasagasti (Hey_neken) - basque translation
• Mikko Kraft (deserter) - finnish translation
• Mintaka - czech translation
• Naoki Iimura (amatubu) いいむらなおき - japanese translation
• Nico Oliver - afrikaans translation
• Nicolas Boudin (Blurgk) - french translation
• Nikolay Vladimirov (Turki) - bulgarian translation
• Nils Kneuper (Ivanovic) - german translation
• Nobuhito Okada 岡田信人 - japanese translation
• Oto Buchta (tapik) - czech translation
• Pau Rul·lan Ferragut - catalan translation
• Paweł Stradomski - polish translation
• Paweł Tomak - polish translation
• paxed - finnish translation
• Petr Kopač (Ferda) - czech translation
• Petr Kovár (Juans) - czech translation
• Philippe Plantier (Ayin) - french translation
• Pieter Vermeylen (Onne) - dutch translation
• Pınar Yanardağ (moonquelle) - turkish translation
• Q - japanese translation
• Rastislav Šarišský (Asto) - esperanto translation
• Renato Cunha - brazilian portuguese translation
• Ricardo Sodré Andrade - brazilian portuguese translation
• Roberto Garcia (Motxales) - catalan translation
• Roel Thijs (Roel) - dutch translation
• Roger Koot - dutch translation
• RokStar - italian translation
• Roman Tuchin (Sankt) - russian translation
• Rudolf Orság - czech translation
• Ruben Philipp Wickenhäuser (The Very Uhu) - german translation
• Sébastien Raynaud (Galactic turkey) - french translation
• Sérgio de Miranda Costa - brazilian portuguese translation
• Selim Farsakoğlu - turkish translation
• Sofronius - czech translation
• Spiros, Giorgis - greek translation
• Srećko Toroman (FreeCraft) - serbian translation
• Stefan Bergström (tephlon) - swedish translation
• Stephan Grochtmann (Schattenstephan) - german translation
• Susanna Björverud (sanna) - swedish translation
• Susanne Mesoy (Rarlgland) - norwegian translation
• Széll Tamás (TomJoad) - hungarian translation
• Takanobu Hirai - japanese translation
• Tiago Souza (Salvador) - brazilian portuguese translation
• Tobe Deprez - dutch translation
• Vít Komárek - czech translation
• Vít Krčál - czech translation
• Viliam Búr - slovak translation
• Vladimír Slávik - czech translation
• Vlad Glagolev (Stelz) - russian translation
• vonHalenbach - german translation
• William Dupré - french translation
• wint3r - swedish translation
• Yann Dirson - french translation
• Yuji Matsumoto - japanese translation
• Zas - french translation

Other Contributions

• Ben Anderman (crimson_penguin) - unit list
• Dacyn - scenario designer
• Cyril Bouthors (CyrilB) - debian packager, patron
• Darryl Dixon - packager
• edge - packager
• Francesco Gigli (Jaramir) - wiki, wesnoth.slack.it
• Frédéric Wagner
• Jay Hopping - packager
• Jeff Breidenbach (Jab) - Bilinear interpolation
• Joshua Northey (Becephalus) - multiplayer maps
• Laurent Wacrenier (lwa) - Mac OS X packager
• Marcin Konicki (ahwayakchih) - BeOS packager
• Marcus Phillips (Sithrandel) - Mac OS X packager (for v1.0 and before)
• Mark Michelsen (skovbaer) - slackware packager
• Miguel Zapico (elricz) - unit list translations
• Peter Groen (pg) - multiplayer maps
• Ruben Philipp Wickenhäuser (The Very Uhu) - multiplayer maps
• Sam Phillips (dark172) - creation of campains and multiplayer maps
• Tom Chance (telex4) - multiplayer maps, scenario balancing
• Vlad Glagolev (Stelz) - OpenBSD packager