id Software is the first independent game developer to be awarded an Emmy since the Academy began honoring technology innovation in 1948. |- | | Television appearance | Appeared on Discovery Channel Canada Daily Planet featuring his rocket designs along with the Armadillo Aerospace team. |- | | Honored | Carmack was honored at the 59th Annual Technology & Engineering Emmy Awards for Quakes pioneering role of user modifiability.
Carmack II (born August 20, 1970) is an American computer programmer, video game developer and engineer.
He attended Shawnee Mission East High School in Prairie Village, Kansas and Raytown South High School in nearby Raytown, Missouri. Carmack was introduced to video games with the 1978 shoot 'em up title Space Invaders in the arcades during a summer vacation as a child.
The 1980 maze chase arcade game Pac-Man also left a strong impression on him.
In 1990, while still at Softdisk, Carmack, Romero, and others created the first of the Commander Keen games, a series that was published by Apogee Software, under the shareware distribution model, from 1991 onwards.
In 1990, while still at Softdisk, Carmack, Romero, and others created the first of the Commander Keen games, a series that was published by Apogee Software, under the shareware distribution model, from 1991 onwards.
He has also contributed to open-source projects, such as starting the initial port of the X Window System to Mac OS X Server and working to improve the OpenGL drivers for Linux through the Utah GLX project. Carmack released the source code for 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.
He has also contributed to open-source projects, such as starting the initial port of the X Window System to Mac OS X Server and working to improve the OpenGL drivers for Linux through the Utah GLX project. Carmack released the source code for Wolfenstein 3D in 1995 and the Doom source code in 1997.
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". He met his wife, Katherine Anna Kang, at the 1997 QuakeCon when she visited id's offices.
The Doom source code was also re-released under the GPL in 1999.
By October 2018, Carmack stated that he and ZeniMax reached an agreement and that "Zenimax has fully satisfied their obligations to me", ending the suit. On November 13, 2019, Carmack announced that he was stepping down from the Oculus CTO role to become a "Consulting CTO" in order to allocate more time to his work on artificial general intelligence (AGI). ==Armadillo Aerospace== Around 2000, Carmack became interested in rocketry, a hobby of his youth.
Carmack and Kang married on January 1, 2000, and planned a ceremony in Hawaii.
Steve Jobs requested that they would postpone the ceremony so he could attend the MacWorld Expo on January 5, 2000.
Carmack and his wife had a son in 2004.
Carmack has a blog last updated in 2006 (previously a .plan), an active Twitter account, and also occasionally posts comments to Slashdot. As a game developer, Carmack differed from many of his contemporaries by avoiding commitment to a final release date for any game he was developing.
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. On August 7, 2013, Carmack joined Oculus VR as their CTO.
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.
In October 2008, 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.
In 2013, he resigned from id to work full-time at Oculus VR, where he served as CTO and later Consulting CTO in 2019. ==Biography== ===Early life=== Carmack was born in Shawnee Mission, Kansas, the son of local television news reporter Stan Carmack.
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. On August 7, 2013, Carmack joined Oculus VR as their CTO.
On November 22, 2013, he resigned from id Software to work full-time at Oculus VR.
The company went into "hibernation mode" in 2013. ==Open-source software== Carmack is a well-known advocate of open-source software, and has repeatedly voiced his opposition to software patents, equating them to robbery.
On the other hand, Carmack has several times over the years voiced a skeptical opinion about Linux as a gaming platform; for instance in 2013 he argued for emulation "as proper technical direction for gaming on linux" and in 2014 he voiced the opinion that Linux might be the biggest problem for the success of the Steam Machine. Carmack contributes to charities and gaming communities.
The source code for Hovertank 3D and Catacomb 3D (as well as Carmack's earlier Catacomb) was released in June 2014 by Flat Rock Software with Carmack's blessing.
On the other hand, Carmack has several times over the years voiced a skeptical opinion about Linux as a gaming platform; for instance in 2013 he argued for emulation "as proper technical direction for gaming on linux" and in 2014 he voiced the opinion that Linux might be the biggest problem for the success of the Steam Machine. Carmack contributes to charities and gaming communities.
The trial jury absolved Carmack of liability, though Oculus and other corporate officers were held liable for trademark, copyright, and contract violations. 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.
By October 2018, Carmack stated that he and ZeniMax reached an agreement and that "Zenimax has fully satisfied their obligations to me", ending the suit. On November 13, 2019, Carmack announced that he was stepping down from the Oculus CTO role to become a "Consulting CTO" in order to allocate more time to his work on artificial general intelligence (AGI). ==Armadillo Aerospace== Around 2000, Carmack became interested in rocketry, a hobby of his youth.
In 2013, he resigned from id to work full-time at Oculus VR, where he served as CTO and later Consulting CTO in 2019. ==Biography== ===Early life=== Carmack was born in Shawnee Mission, Kansas, the son of local television news reporter Stan Carmack.
By October 2018, Carmack stated that he and ZeniMax reached an agreement and that "Zenimax has fully satisfied their obligations to me", ending the suit. On November 13, 2019, Carmack announced that he was stepping down from the Oculus CTO role to become a "Consulting CTO" in order to allocate more time to his work on artificial general intelligence (AGI). ==Armadillo Aerospace== Around 2000, Carmack became interested in rocketry, a hobby of his youth.
Instead, when asked for a release date on a new title, Carmack would usually reply that the game would be released "when it's done." In 2019, as a guest on the Joe Rogan podcast, Carmack stated that his beliefs have changed over time: "I largely recant from that now." On Rage's 6-year development time he says: "I think we should have done whatever it would have taken to ship it 2 years earlier".
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