John Carmack Gets Lifetime Achievement Award
The daddy of 3D engines that powered Doom and Quake games gets recognized.
John Carmack, one of the geniuses in 3D gaming technology will be recognized in March at 2010 Game Developers Choice Awards for his lifetime of achievement.
Carmack's involvement in the design of game engines led to the Doom and Quake franchises as well as the numerous games based off of his engine code.
The announcement from GDC reads:
John Carmack and his team at id Software, the company he co-founded in 1991, pioneered real-time 3D graphics in game, setting the pace and the standard for other developers to follow. Carmack and his colleagues at id are credited with essentially creating the modern-day first-person shooter (FPS) genre with the PC game Wolfenstein 3D in 1992, and helping to popularize networked multiplayer gaming on PCs with the release of Doom in 1993.
id has gone on to create other major FPS and action game franchises such as Quake, and Carmack and id Software are currently in development of a number of projects, including the free-to-play, web-based title Quake Live, the upcoming new franchise RAGE, and DOOM 4.
As a largely self-taught technology purist, Carmack has devoted himself to pushing the limits of hardware and software. He's helped to set the technical and gameplay standard for modern 3D gaming - and in the process, created some of the most popular video game franchises in history, which is why he's being honored by the Game Developers Choice Awards this year.
Former Game Developers Choice Lifetime Achievement Award recipients include Sid Meier, Shigeru Miyamoto, Will Wright - who will be presenting the award to Carmack at the ceremony on March 11, 2010 during Game Developers Conference 2010 in San Francisco - and other legendary game creators.
Looking at the list of previous recipients I noticed Sid Meier of "Civilization" fame. That brings back a lot of memories from a long long time ago.
Fail. He already has a wife and a kid.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_D._Carmack
+1. Too bad they don't make games like games like Wolfenstien, Quake,etc any more. All we have now are cr@ppy console ports.
Looking at the list of previous recipients I noticed Sid Meier of "Civilization" fame. That brings back a lot of memories from a long long time ago.
Carmack has life left in him. If he gets a hair cut he might even get laid before the end.
+1. Too bad they don't make games like games like Wolfenstien, Quake,etc any more. All we have now are cr@ppy console ports.
Fail. He already has a wife and a kid.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_D._Carmack
It is called the outdoors. I kid.
all those years ago when you showed Nintendo what gaming could really look like, on the family PC no less.
wish you would do it again now...
buy a console lol
Even then, we wouldn't be doing the man justice.
Download it
Play it
It is the way, the truth and the light.
I still haven't made it as far as the end level of Doom 2 where you see John Romero's head on a spike, it will be interesting to see if they have got a more up to date skin for John's face.
At least he is immortalised as a head on a spike
Not only for making breakthrough games but for also supporting Linux !
I should mention I had 3D fps games on the Amiga pre Carmack...
Not like todays wannabe console games with auto-aim and other crap needed to even control it, then when the word skill or elite gamer is amonth the words i can only laugh my ass off!
Does anyone remember the blurb in Commander Keen 1 where they "previewed" Quake... at the time they bragged about the 256 color graphics and how you would start out as the most powerful person on earth!