When it comes to videogames, John Carmack is kind of a big deal. Lead programmer of games like Doom and Quake, he's unarguably one of the folks that put first-person shooters on the map.
So it seems fitting that Carmack will be receiving a Lifetime Achivement award at the 2010 Game Developer Choice Awards. The ceremony will take place during the Game Developer Conference in San Francisco on Thursday, March 11, and will be hosted by game designer Warren Spector.
Previous winners include Shigeru Miyamoto, Sid Meier, and Will Wright. Wright himself will present the award to Carmack, whose contributions have helped push gaming tech forward for more than twenty years.
My earliest memories of Carmack's work include the Commander Keen titles, but it wasn't until I played Wolfenstein 3D that id Software (and Carmack's name) would forever to etched into my mind. I think I'm going to go play Doom now.
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12:30 PM on 02.22.2010
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Sorry, I heard that mentioned somewhere in the text. Ahem.
I know you were just kidding around, but really, Carmack's current endeavors are just as important as his past accomplishments. He's been working on serious/hardcore mobile phone games for a lot longer than most (Doom RPG, anyone?), and his work with Quake Live is some pretty innovative stuff.
Just because he has fell a bit from the PC/console limelight doesn't mean he isn't a busy guy!
id Software has yet to produce a shitty game, if you ask me.
Doom.
And i don't think most of you understand how rad he is. He came up with alot of really really clever algorithms that allowed for things like doom. Namely the below.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_space_partitioning
I wrote something like this for school and i just kept thinking, how do you come up with this stuff?
If this guy told me my code was shit, that would probably be the best day of my life.
It's not that he came up with binary space partitioning, he figured out that some esoteric algorithm == Doom
my comment about my code being shit still holds true.
John carmack IS rad. Wolf 3d began my love affair with first person shooters, and it hasn't stopped since.
I always loved his ridiculously long and intricate quakecon keynotes. But as Narishma said those are supposed to be about technical stuff that we all know take up a lot of time. An acceptance speech is an entirely different event.