John Carmack is a legendary figure in the gaming industry. He came up with revolutionary programming techniques to make games more realistic. With his participation, such masterpieces as Wolfenstein 3D, Quake, Doom and many others were created.
John Carmack: biography
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- Commander Keen (1990, 1991);
- Hovertank 3D (1991);
- Wolfenstein 3D (5.05.1992);
- Spear of Destiny (18.09.1992);
- Doom (10.12.1993);
- Doom II (10.10.1994);
- Heretic (23.12.1994);
- Quake (22.06.1996);
- Quake II (9.12.1997);
- Quake III Arena (2.12.1999);
- Doom III (3.08.2004);
- Quake IV (18.10.2005);
- Wolfenstein (18.08.2009);
- Quake Champions ( 2017).
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Carmack is a proponent of open source software. He made ID Tech 1, 2, and 3 available for download and stated that in the end, ID Tech 4 and ID Tech 5 would be open source. He also opposes the concept of patents in software.
John is married and has two children. His wife was Katherine Kang, who served as director of business development at ID Software.