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Prof Dr. Mark H. Overmars (born 2 May 1950 ) is a Dutch Programmer and teacher of programming (particularly of games). He is the head of the Center for Geometry, Imaging, and Virtual Environments ('''GIVE''') at the University of Utrecht (Netherlands). This research center concentrates on Computational Geometry and its application in areas like Computer Graphics , Robotics , Geographic Information Systems , imaging, Multimedia , virtual environments, and games.

Mark Overmars is perhaps best known, on the internet at least, as being the creator of the game programming software Game Maker on New Year's Day 2000 and founding the game corporation ''Overmars Games GmbH'' in the early 1980s.


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