I can confirm. We wrote couple of games together in 1995-98 (Fire Fight being the biggest). He is genuinely a good guy.
Fire Fight! That's a blast from the past. I remember being amazed by how cool it looked and felt to play when I was 12 or 13.
Yup, been some fun to write. We did it in Cracow Poland, no internet, barely any money, these were times!
ZZT was such an influential game/editor for me.
I just wish they woulda stuck with his original "Epic MegaGames" name, much better to have a funny name than one that can be read as a bit too self-important.
I’m rather surprised that whiz kids like Sweeny and Carmack often end up becoming excellent executives as well.
What is Carmack up to these days? Last I heard he was still fiddling with VR stuff and doing rocket hobbyist projects on the side?