John Carmack
Game Developer
Class of 2021 Inductee
John Carmack co-founded the video game company id Software and was the lead programmer of Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, Quake, and their sequels.
Carmack has pioneered or popularized the use of many techniques in computer graphics, including “adaptive tile refresh”, ray casting, binary space partitioning, surface caching, Carmack’s Reverse (formally known as z-fail stencil shadows) and MegaTexture technology. Quake 3 popularized the fast inverse square root algorithm.
In 2013, he resigned from id Software to work full-time at Oculus VR as their CTO.
In 2019, he reduced his role to Consulting CTO so he could allocate more time toward artificial general intelligence (AGI).
In 2022, he left Oculus to work on his AGI startup, Keen Technologies.
Wikipedia:
195 credits on 118 games, including Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, Quake, and Rage.
Major Achievements and Accolades:
1996 Named among the most influential people in computer gaming of the year and of all time #1 and #2 in GameSpot’s lists.
1997 Named among the most influential people of all time #7 in Computer Gaming World list, for game design.
1999 Named among the 50 most influential people in technology. #10 in Time Magazine’s list.
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.
2007 Carmack and id Software were awarded two Emmy Awards.
2009 Named among the 100 top game creators of all time #10 in IGN’s list.
2010 Game Developers Conference Lifetime Achievement Award.
2016 BAFTA Fellowship Award.
2017 Received Honorary Doctorate of Engineering Honoris Causa from the University of Missouri, Kansas City.
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