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> They are probably stronger than ever in terms of games using their tech and collected license fees.

True, though they've been acquired by Epic since 2021. They keep the RAD Game Tools branding, but aren't their own separate company anymore.

Oodle/Kraken is mostly the work of Charles Bloom and Fabian Giesen, a couple of other "legendary game programmers" at RAD, but who aren't quite as visibly prominent as Casey has been in the modern software developer mediasphere.

Are you conflating what Casey worked on with what RadTools worked on?

Honest question, but what is the benefit of Bink over standard codecs like H.264/265 or AV1? Specially nowadays that every GPU provides hardware-accelerated video decoding...

I remember using it to encode some videos for a school presentation. I think I needed to make it fit into a CD and play-on-double-click and Bink was the easiest tool to do it in.