John Carmack By: Ian MacFadyen COMP 1631 Winter 2011

John Carmack He was born August 20, 1970 He lived his early life He then went on to become one of the most influential videogame programmers ever A Co-founder of id software He also founded an aerospace company called Armadillo Aerospace

id Software Founded by John Carmack, Adrian Carmack, John Romero, and Tom Hall id was unofficially founded September 1990 In that month it co- founders made their first game

id’s First Game Commander Keen was the first game id made The game was a side scrolling platformer Think early Mario In the game you are a boy genius fighting aliens. Nuff said

More on id The company officially began on February 1, 1991 John was the lead programmer of the company But the thing that got Carmack his first fame was the first Wolfenstein

Wolfenstein The big thing about Wolfenstein was the fact that it was the first 3D… well sort of Carmack was the lead programmer of this game so he is credited with the “3D” more like 2.5D This was the original FPS (first person shooter) Released May 5, 1992

Even More on id id went on to produce two other FPS series Doom and Quake Both met success

Doom The basic premise of Doom is that people were making teleportation technology They create a link to Hell They study Hell ALL HELL BREAKS LOOSE! LITERALY! You are a security officer from the facility, and you are fighting for your life

Quake Again with the teleporting But in Quake some unidentified enemy uses their teleportation tech to attack the humans You are the only surviving person to fight Also id’s first true 3D game

Fun Fact One fan of Quake had got a hold of it’s code He made modifications so that the game could run on Linux He then sent the mod to id The didn’t arrest the person, instead they used it to make an official Linux release

Armadillo Aerospace Founded in 2000 by John They are a leading developer of reusable rocket powered vehicles

References Armadillo Aerospace - Home, Armadillo Aerospace, Web. 31 January, 2011 IGN: id Software, IGN, Web. 31 January, 2011 John Carmack Biography, Biography Base, Web. 31 January 2011