Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, Quake, Rage and their sequels. Carmack is best known for his innovations in 3D graphics, such as his Carmack's Reverse algorithm for shadow volumes. In August 2013, Carmack took the position of CTO at Oculus VR.[2]
Contents
1 Biography
1.1 Early life 1.2 Career
2 Armadillo Aerospace
3
Open source
Open source software
4 Personal life and philosophy
5 Recognition
6 Games
7 References
8 Further reading
9 External links
Biography[edit]
Early life[edit]
Carmack, son of local television news reporter Stan Carmack, grew up
in the
Kansas City Metropolitan Area
Kansas City Metropolitan Area where he became interested in
computers at an early age. He attended Shawnee Mission East High
School in
Prairie Village, Kansas
Prairie Village, Kansas and
Raytown South High School
Raytown South High School in
nearby Raytown, Missouri.
Carmack was introduced to video games with the 1978 shoot 'em up title
Space Invaders
Space Invaders in the arcades during a summer vacation as a child. The
1980 maze chase arcade game
Pac-Man
Pac-Man also left a strong impression on
him. He cited
Shigeru Miyamoto
.JPG/440px-Shigeru_Miyamoto_at_E3_2013_1_(cropped).JPG)
Shigeru Miyamoto as the game developer he most
admired.[3]
As reported in David Kushner's Masters of Doom, when Carmack was 14,
he broke into a school to help a group of children steal Apple II
computers. To gain entry to the building, Carmack concocted a sticky
substance of thermite mixed with
Vaseline
Vaseline that melted through the
windows. However, an overweight accomplice struggled to get through
the hole, and opened the window, setting off a silent alarm and
alerting police. Carmack was arrested, and sent for psychiatric
evaluation (the report mentions 'no empathy for other human beings'
and describes Carmack as 'a brain on legs'). Carmack was then
sentenced to a year in a juvenile home.[4][5]
He attended the
University of Missouri–Kansas City
University of Missouri–Kansas City for two semesters
before withdrawing to work as a freelance programmer.
Career[edit]
Softdisk, a computer company in Shreveport, Louisiana, hired Carmack
to work on
Softdisk
Softdisk G-S (an Apple IIGS publication), introducing him
to
John Romero
_(cropped).jpg/440px-John_Romero_-_Jason_Scott_interview_(6951215353)_(cropped).jpg)
John Romero and other future key members of id Software such as
Adrian Carmack (not related). Later, this team would be placed by
Softdisk
Softdisk in charge of a new, but short-lived, bi-monthly game
subscription product called Gamer's Edge for the IBM PC (DOS)
platform. In 1990, while still at Softdisk, Carmack, Romero, and
others created the first of the
Commander Keen
Commander Keen games, a series that
was published by Apogee Software, under the shareware distribution
model, from 1991 onwards. Afterwards, Carmack left
Softdisk
Softdisk to
co-found id Software.
Carmack has pioneered or popularized the use of many techniques in
computer graphics, including "adaptive tile refresh" for Commander
Keen, raycasting for Hovertank 3-D, Catacomb 3-D, and
Wolfenstein
Wolfenstein 3-D,
binary space partitioning which Doom became the first game to use,
surface caching which he invented for Quake, Carmack's Reverse
(formally known as z-fail stencil shadows) which he devised for Doom
3, and
MegaTexture
.jpg)
MegaTexture technology, first used in Enemy Territory: Quake
Wars.
Carmack joined
Oculus VR
Oculus VR in 2013 to help develop its
Oculus Rift
Oculus Rift VR
headset.
Carmack's engines have also been licensed for use in other influential
first-person shooters such as Half-Life,
Call of Duty
Call of Duty and Medal of
Honor. In 2007, when Carmack was on vacation with his wife, he ended
up playing some games on his cellphone, and decided he was going to
make a "good" mobile game.[6][7]
Main article: ZeniMax v. Oculus
On August 7, 2013, Carmack joined
Oculus VR
Oculus VR as their CTO. On November
22, 2013, he resigned from id Software to work full-time at Oculus
VR.[1][8] Carmack's reason for leaving was because id's parent company
ZeniMax Media
ZeniMax Media didn't want to support Oculus Rift.[9] Carmack's role at
both companies later became central to a ZeniMax lawsuit against
Oculus parent company Facebook, claiming that Oculus stole ZeniMax's
virtual reality intellectual property.[10] The trial jury absolved
Carmack of liability, though Oculus and other corporate officers were
held liable for trademark, copyright, and contract violations.[11] In
February 2017 Carmack sued ZeniMax, claiming the company had refused
to pay him the remaining $22.5 million owed him from their purchase of
id Software.[12]
Armadillo Aerospace[edit]
Main article: Armadillo Aerospace
Carmack during the 2005 X PRIZE Cup in Las Cruces and Alamogordo, New Mexico
Around 2000, Carmack became interested in rocketry, a hobby of his
youth. Reviewing how much money he was spending on customizing
Ferraris,[citation needed] Carmack realized he could do significant
work in rocketry and aerospace. He began by giving financial support
to a few local amateur groups before starting Armadillo Aerospace.
Carmack funded the company out of his own pocket, for “something
north of a million dollars a year.”[13] The company made steady
progress toward their goals of suborbital space flight and eventual
orbital vehicles. In October 2008,
Armadillo Aerospace
Armadillo Aerospace competed in a
NASA contest known as the Lunar Lander Challenge, winning first place
in the Level 1 competition along with $350,000. In September 2009,
they completed Level 2 and were awarded $500,000.[14][15][16] The
company went into "hibernation mode" in 2013.[13]
Open source
Open source software[edit]
Carmack is a well-known advocate of open source software, and has
repeatedly voiced his opposition to software patents, which he equates
to "mugging someone".[17] He has also contributed to open source
projects, such as starting the initial port of the
X Window System
X Window System to
Mac OS X Server
Mac OS X Server and working to improve the OpenGL drivers for Linux
through the
Utah GLX
Utah GLX project.
Carmack released the source code for
Wolfenstein 3D
Wolfenstein 3D in 1995 and the
Doom source code in 1997. When the source code to Quake was leaked and
circulated among the Quake community underground in 1996, a programmer
unaffiliated with id Software used it to port Quake to Linux, and
subsequently sent the patches to Carmack. Instead of pursuing legal
action, id Software, at Carmack's behest, used the patches as the
foundation for a company-sanctioned
Linux
Linux port.[citation needed] id
Software has since publicly released the source code to Quake, Quake
2, Quake 3 and lastly
Doom 3
Doom 3 (including, later, the BFG Edition), all
under the
GNU General Public License
GNU General Public License (GPL). The Doom source code was
also re-released under the GPL in 1999. The id Tech 4 engine, more
commonly known as the "
Doom 3
Doom 3 engine", has also been released as open
source under the GPL.[18] The source code for
Hovertank 3D
Hovertank 3D and
Catacomb 3D
Catacomb 3D (as well as Carmack's earlier Catacomb) was released in
June 2014 by
Flat Rock Software
Flat Rock Software with Carmack's blessing.[19][20] On
the other hand, Carmack has several times over the years voiced a
skeptical opinion about
Linux
Linux as a gaming platform;[21] for instance
in 2013 he argued for emulation "as proper technical direction for
gaming on linux"[22] and in 2014 he voiced the opinion that Linux
might be the biggest problem for the success of the Steam Machine.[23]
Carmack contributes to charities and gaming communities. Some of the
recipients of Carmack's charitable contributions include his former
high school, promoters of open source software, opponents of software
patents, and game enthusiasts. In 1997, he gave away one of his
Ferraris (a 328 model) as a prize to Dennis Fong, the winner of the
Quake tournament "Red Annihilation".[24]
Personal life and philosophy[edit]
Carmack was so successful at id that by mid-1994 he had purchased two
Ferrari
Ferrari Testarossas.[25] He met his wife
Katherine Anna Kang at the
1997
QuakeCon
QuakeCon when she visited id's offices. As a bet, Kang challenged
Carmack to sponsor the first All Female Quake Tournament if she was
able to produce a significant number of participants. Carmack and Kang
married on January 1, 2000 and planned a ceremony in Hawaii. Steve
Jobs requested that they postpone the ceremony so Carmack could attend
the MacWorld Expo on January 5, 2000. Both declined and made a video
instead. They had a son in 2004. Carmack has a blog last updated in
2006 (previously a .plan), an active
Twitter
Twitter account, and also
occasionally posts comments to Slashdot.
As a game developer, he differs from many of his contemporaries by
avoiding commitment to a final release date for any game he is
developing. Instead, when asked for a release date on a new title,
Carmack will usually reply that the game will be released "when it's
done."[26] Employees at Apogee, in their past years the publishers of
games by id Software, adopted this business practice as well.[27]
Other game developers, such as
Blizzard Entertainment
Blizzard Entertainment and Valve, have
made similar statements.[28]
Carmack supported the 2012 presidential campaign of Republican Ron
Paul.[29] Carmack is a libertarian[30] and a fan of Thomas Sowell.[31]
Carmack is an atheist.[32][33]
He loves pizza. During his time at id Software, a medium pepperoni
pizza would arrive for Carmack from Domino's
Pizza
Pizza almost every day,
carried by the same delivery person for more than 15 years. Carmack
had been such a regular customer that they still charge him 1995
prices.[34]
On occasion he has commended the efforts of similarly focused
programmers — first Ken Silverman, who wrote the Build engine
for 3D Realms, and later with Tim Sweeney of Epic Games, who writes
the Unreal Engine.[35]
Recognition[edit]
Date Award Description
000000001996-01-01-00001996 Named among the most influential people in computer gaming of the year and of all time #1 and #2 in GameSpots lists.[36][37]
000000001997-01-01-00001997
Named among the most influential people of all time
#7 in
Computer
Computer Gaming World list, for game design.[38]
000000001999-01-01-00001999 Named among the 50 most influential people in technology #10 in Time's list.[39]
000000002001-03-01-0000March 2001
Award for community contribution for the Quake 3 engine
Used in 12 games. Bestowed at 2001
Game Developer's Conference
Game Developer's Conference Award
Ceremony.
000000002001-03-22-0000March 22, 2001 Inducted into Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences' Hall of Fame The fourth person to be inducted, an honor bestowed upon those who have made revolutionary and innovative achievements in the video and computer game industry.
000000002002-01-01-00002002
Named to the MIT
Technology Review
Technology Review TR100
Included as one of the top 100 innovators in the world under the age
of 35.[40]
000000002003-01-01-00002003
One subject of book Masters of Doom
Masters of Doom
Masters of Doom is a chronicle of id Software and its founders.
000000002005-01-01-00002005 Name in film The film Doom featured a character named Dr. Carmack, in recognition of Carmack who co-created the original game.
000000002006-03-01-0000March 2006
Added to the Walk of Game
Walk of Game
Walk of Game is an event that recognizes the developers and games with
the most impact on the industry.[41]
000000002007-01-01-0000January 2007 Awarded 2 Emmy Awards Carmack and id Software were awarded with two Emmy Awards. The first was Science, Engineering & Technology for Broadcast Television, which includes broadcast, cable and satellite distribution. The second was for Science, Engineering and Technology for Broadband and Personal Television, encompassing interactive television, gaming technology, and for the first time, the Internet, cell phones, private networks, and personal media players. id Software is the very first independent game developer to be awarded an Emmy since the Academy began honoring technology innovation in 1948.[42]
000000002007-09-01-0000September 2007
Television appearance
Appeared on
Discovery Channel Canada Daily Planet featuring his rocket
designs along with the
Armadillo Aerospace
Armadillo Aerospace team.
000000002008-01-01-00002008
Honored
Carmack was honored at the 59th Annual Technology & Engineering
Emmy Awards
Emmy Awards for Quake's pioneering role of user modifiability.[43] He
is the only game programmer ever honored twice by the National Academy
of Television Arts & Sciences, having been given an Emmy Award in
2007 for his creation of the 3D technology that underlies modern
shooter video games.[44] Along with
Don Daglow
Don Daglow of Stormfront Studios
and
Mike Morhaime
Mike Morhaime of Blizzard Entertainment, Carmack is one of only
three game developers to accept awards at both the Technology &
Engineering
Emmy Awards
Emmy Awards and at the Academy of Interactive Arts &
Sciences Interactive Achievement Awards.[citation needed]
000000002008-10-01-0000October 2008
Won X-Prize
Carmack's
Armadillo Aerospace
Armadillo Aerospace won the $350,000 Level One X-Prize Lunar
Lander Challenge.[45]
000000002010-03-11-0000March 11, 2010
Lifetime Achievement Award
Was awarded the
Game Developers Conference
Game Developers Conference Lifetime Achievement award
for his work.[46]
000000002016-03-07-0000March 7, 2016 BAFTA Fellowship Award Honoured with the Academy's highest honour, the Fellowship for "work that has consistently been at the cutting edge of games and his technical expertise helping the future arrive that little bit faster".[47]
000000002017-05-03-0000May 3, 2017 Honorary Doctorate Received a Doctor of Engineering Honoris Causa from the University of Missouri, Kansas City for "his work in cutting edge tech & comp sci".[48]
Games[edit] Titles are listed below in reverse chronological order. This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it.
Release date Title Developer Publisher Credited for
000000002016-05-13-0000May 13, 2016 Doom id Software Bethesda Softworks Former technical director, former engine programmer, former developer
000000002012-10-16-0000October 16, 2012
Doom 3
Doom 3 BFG Edition
id Software
Bethesda Softworks
Technical director, engine programmer, developer
000000002011-10-04-0000October 4, 2011 Rage id Software Bethesda Softworks Technical director, engine programmer, developer
000000002007-09-28-0000September 28, 2007 Enemy Territory: Quake Wars Splash Damage Activision Programming
000000002006-05-01-0000May 1, 2006 Orcs & Elves Fountainhead Entertainment Electronic Arts Producer/programmer/writer
000000002005-10-18-0000October 18, 2005
Quake 4
Raven Software
Activision,
Bethesda Softworks
Bethesda Softworks (republished 2012)
Technical director
000000002005-09-13-0000September 13, 2005 Doom RPG Fountainhead Entertainment id Software Producer/programmer
000000002005-04-03-0000April 3, 2005 Doom 3: Resurrection of Evil Nerve Software Activision Technical director
000000002004-08-03-0000August 3, 2004 Doom 3 id Software Activision Technical director
000000002001-11-19-0000November 19, 2001 Return to Castle Wolfenstein id Software Activision Technical director
000000002000-12-18-0000December 18, 2000 Quake III: Team Arena id Software Activision Programming
000000001999-12-02-0000December 2, 1999
Quake III
Quake III Arena
id Software
Activision
Programming
000000001997-11-30-0000November 30, 1997 Quake II id Software Activision Programming
000000001997-03-31-0000March 31, 1997 Doom 64 Midway Games Midway Games Programming
000000001996-06-22-0000June 22, 1996 Quake id Software GT Interactive Programming
000000001996-05-31-0000May 31, 1996 Final Doom id Software GT Interactive Programming
000000001995-10-30-0000October 30, 1995 Hexen: Beyond Heretic Raven Software id Software 3D engine
000000001994-12-23-0000December 23, 1994 Heretic Raven Software id Software Engine programmer
000000001994-09-30-0000September 30, 1994 Doom II: Hell on Earth id Software GT Interactive Programming
000000001993-12-10-0000December 10, 1993 Doom id Software id Software Programming
000000001993-01-01-00001993 Shadowcaster Raven Software Origin Systems 3D engine
000000001992-09-18-0000September 18, 1992 Spear of Destiny id Software FormGen Software engineer
000000001992-05-05-0000May 5, 1992
Wolfenstein
Wolfenstein 3D
id Software
Apogee Software
Programming
000000001991-01-01-00001991 Catacomb 3-D id Software Softdisk Programming
000000001991-01-01-00001991
Commander Keen
Commander Keen in Aliens Ate My Babysitter!
id Software
FormGen
Programming
000000001991-12-15-0000December 15, 1991
Commander Keen
Commander Keen in Goodbye, Galaxy!
id Software
Apogee Software
Programming
000000001991-01-01-00001991
Commander Keen
Commander Keen in Keen Dreams
id Software
Softdisk
Programming
000000001991-01-01-00001991 Shadow Knights id Software Softdisk Design/programming
000000001991-01-01-00001991
Rescue Rover
Rescue Rover 2
id Software
Softdisk
Programmer
000000001991-01-01-00001991 Rescue Rover id Software Softdisk Programmer
000000001991-01-01-00001991 Hovertank 3D id Software Softdisk Programming
000000001991-01-01-00001991
Dangerous Dave
Dangerous Dave in the Haunted Mansion
id Software
Softdisk
Programming
000000001991-01-01-00001991 Dark Designs III: Retribution Softdisk Softdisk Programmer/designer
000000001990-12-14-0000December 14, 1990
Commander Keen
Commander Keen in Invasion of the Vorticons
id Software
Apogee Software
Programming
000000001990-01-01-00001990 Slordax: The Unknown Enemy Softdisk Softdisk Programming
000000001990-01-01-00001990 Catacomb II Softdisk Softdisk Developer
000000001990-01-01-00001990 Catacomb Softdisk Softdisk Programmer
000000001990-01-01-00001990 Dark Designs II: Closing the Gate Softdisk Softdisk Programmer/designer
000000001990-01-01-00001990 Dark Designs: Grelminar's Staff John Carmack Softdisk Developer
000000001990-01-01-00001990 Tennis John Carmack Softdisk Developer
000000001990-01-01-00001990 Wraith: The Devil's Demise John Carmack Nite Owl Productions Developer
000000001989-01-01-00001989 Shadowforge John Carmack Nite Owl Productions Developer
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Lew Grade (1979)
Huw Wheldon
Huw Wheldon (1979)
David Attenborough
David Attenborough (1980)
John Huston
John Huston (1980)
Abel Gance
Abel Gance (1981)
Michael Powell
Michael Powell &
Emeric Pressburger
Emeric Pressburger (1981)
Andrzej Wajda
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Andrzej Wajda (1982)
Richard Attenborough
Richard Attenborough (1983)
Hugh Greene (1984)
Sam Spiegel
Sam Spiegel (1984)
Jeremy Isaacs (1985)
Steven Spielberg
Steven Spielberg (1986)
Federico Fellini
Federico Fellini (1987)
Ingmar Bergman
Ingmar Bergman (1988)
Alec Guinness
Alec Guinness (1989)
Paul Fox (1990)
Louis Malle
Louis Malle (1991)
John Gielgud
John Gielgud (1992)
David Plowright (1992)
Sydney Samuelson (1993)
Colin Young (1993)
Michael Grade
Michael Grade (1994)
Billy Wilder
Billy Wilder (1995)
Jeanne Moreau
Jeanne Moreau (1996)
Ronald Neame
Ronald Neame (1996)
John Schlesinger
John Schlesinger (1996)
Maggie Smith
Maggie Smith (1996)
Woody Allen
Woody Allen (1997)
Steven Bochco
Steven Bochco (1997)
Julie Christie
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Julie Christie (1997)
Oswald Morris (1997)
Harold Pinter
Harold Pinter (1997)
David Rose (1997)
Sean Connery
Sean Connery (1998)
Bill Cotton
Bill Cotton (1998)
Eric Morecambe
Eric Morecambe &
Ernie Wise
Ernie Wise (1999)
Elizabeth Taylor
Elizabeth Taylor (1999)
Michael Caine
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Michael Caine (2000)
Stanley Kubrick
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Stanley Kubrick (2000)
Peter Bazalgette
Peter Bazalgette (2000)
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Albert Finney
Albert Finney (2001)
John Thaw
John Thaw (2001)
Judi Dench
Judi Dench (2001)
Warren Beatty
Warren Beatty (2002)
Merchant Ivory Productions (2002)
Andrew Davies (2002)
John Mills
John Mills (2002)
Saul Zaentz
Saul Zaentz (2003)
David Jason (2003)
John Boorman
John Boorman (2004)
Roger Graef (2004)
John Barry (2005)
David Frost
David Frost (2005)
David Puttnam
David Puttnam (2006)
Ken Loach
Ken Loach (2006)
Anne V. Coates (2007)
Richard Curtis
Richard Curtis (2007)
Will Wright (2007)
Anthony Hopkins
Anthony Hopkins (2008)
Bruce Forsyth
Bruce Forsyth (2008)
Dawn French
Dawn French &
Jennifer Saunders
Jennifer Saunders (2009)
Terry Gilliam
Terry Gilliam (2009)
Nolan Bushnell
Nolan Bushnell (2009)
Vanessa Redgrave
Vanessa Redgrave (2010)
Shigeru Miyamoto
Shigeru Miyamoto (2010)
Melvyn Bragg
Melvyn Bragg (2010)
Christopher Lee
Christopher Lee (2011)
Peter Molyneux
Peter Molyneux (2011)
Trevor McDonald (2011)
Martin Scorsese
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Martin Scorsese (2012)
Rolf Harris
Rolf Harris (2012)
Alan Parker
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Alan Parker (2013)
Gabe Newell
Gabe Newell (2013)
Michael Palin
Michael Palin (2013)
Helen Mirren
Helen Mirren (2014)
Rockstar Games
Rockstar Games (2014)
Julie Walters
Julie Walters (2014)
Mike Leigh
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Mike Leigh (2015)
David Braben (2015)
Jon Snow (2015)
Sidney Poitier
Sidney Poitier (2016)
John Carmack
John Carmack (2016)
Ray Galton & Alan Simpson (2016)
Mel Brooks
Mel Brooks (2017)
Joanna Lumley
Joanna Lumley (2017)
Ridley Scott
Ridley Scott (2018)
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Founders
Mark Zuckerberg
Mark Zuckerberg (28% equity)
Dustin Moskovitz
Dustin Moskovitz (7%)
Eduardo Saverin
Eduardo Saverin (5%, formerly)
Chris Hughes
Chris Hughes (1%, formerly)
Andrew McCollum
Board
Mark Zuckerberg
Jim Breyer
Jim Breyer (11%)
Peter Thiel
Peter Thiel (2%)
Sheryl Sandberg
Marc Andreessen
Erskine Bowles
Susan Desmond-Hellmann
Donald E. Graham
Reed Hastings
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Mark Zuckerberg
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Sheryl Sandberg
Sheryl Sandberg (COO)
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Mike Schroepfer
Mike Schroepfer (CTO)
Former
Sean Parker
Sean Parker (4%, formerly)
Owen Van Natta
Gideon Yu
Adam D'Angelo
Chris Kelly
Bret Taylor
David Ebersman
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Chris Cox (VP of Product)
Elliot Schrage
Elliot Schrage (VP of Global Communications, Marketing and Public
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Lars Rasmussen (Graph Search director)
John Carmack
John Carmack (CTO of Oculus VR)
Hugo Barra
Hugo Barra (VP of Oculus VR)
Naomi Gleit (VP of social good)
Caryn Marooney (VP of Communications)
Former
Blake Ross
Blake Ross (Director of Product)
Ted Ullyot (VP, General Counsel, and Secretary)
Matt Cohler
Charlie Cheever
Randi Zuckerberg
Yishan Wong
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Joe Lockhart
Andrei Alexandrescu
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