Cool; I just finished "Masters of Doom" by David Kushner.
It tells the story of ID Software, the groundbreaking games they developed up to the split of the two Johns and then some.
A real interesting read for anybody interested in the subject.
It tells the story of ID Software, the groundbreaking games they developed up to the split of the two Johns and then some.
A real interesting read for anybody interested in the subject.
Point blank - without Romero, there is iD Software (it was his idea to form a new company). There is no Doom. There is no Quake. Romero was one of the primary creative forces behind iD.
Carmack was the tech genius who made their ideas come to life.
Maybe in the beginning he was a driving force but I speculate something changed. Be it something with him, technology changes, or whatever but he later did not seem to have as big an impact.
I met Romero back during the beginning of the Ion Storm days and based on that short chat with him I was convinced that Ion Storm would succeed. Sadly it did not. Granted, Ion Storm did turn out some of the best games ever made but not the one that Romero made.
Even as readers of the book learn that they are rather compared to Metallica.
I agree that it needed the two Johns to make iD happen.
On a sidenote: To me John Carmack is one of the true hacker heroes. That's for his almost militant stance aganst patents and for his generousity in sharing his code.