Carmack officially leaves iD

[dux]

http://uk.ign.com/articles/2013/11/22/doom-creator-john-carmack-officially-leaves-id-software

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Not very surprised, he's a man that can only focus at max a couple things at once.

[AlexM]

What is he focusing on currently? Still the spaceship thing?

 

He's at Occulus? Awesome!

Edited November 22, 2013 by AlexM

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He's leading the Oculus Rift project.

[blackdog]

Poles have just inverted.

Edited November 22, 2013 by blackdog

[mjens]

[MaK]

I guess id is now... doomed.

 

 

Honestly though I couldn't be more excited that he decided to join Occulus. I freaking love John Carmack and I've been super optimistic about what Oculus has been doing, so this just makes it all the better. Good for him, and I wish id the best.

[2d-chris]

good to see some high profile people behind the rift, I'm definitely more excited he's behind this than another graphics engine, we have enough of those already. 

 

who knows, maybe in 5 years or so the rift and similar tech will be worth it

Edited November 22, 2013 by 2d-chris

[dkm]

Yup. Pretty happy about that! You can argue that it's the end of an era, but I think it was long overdue. He's a visionary and he's probably better off building the future of gaming

I for one am totally looking forward to what he'll bring to Virtual Reality!

[Tisky]

 

Feels so weird..

[Sprony]

Excellent news. I'm very glad he'll be innovating at Occulus once more. Because let's face it, Id was holding him back. Now is als the right time for Zenimax to do something about Id itself and start bringing us some proper titles based on Id's franchises.

[Skacky]

In my eyes id "died" as soon as John Romero, Sandy Petersen and American McGee (who's probably my favorite level designer) left. Now I'm not saying id's games after Quake were bad (except maybe Quake 2), but they did not have the impact of their earlier titles even though they had great engines. I'm confident Carmack will do wonderful things at Oculus now. I think he should have done that years ago.

Edited November 23, 2013 by Skacky

[D3ads]

RIP ID...

[Thrik]

Yeah, I've not really seen id as being particularly relevant for a long, long time. Sure they had huge impact with Wolfenstein, Doom, and Quake — and the pre-2000 engines of those games were a huge thing for the industry and still sit behind the technology of many of today's games. But apart from those successes, what has id really accomplished?

 

I can't think of anything they've done for about 13 years that's really had much of an effect on the community or industry. Doom 3 didn't do much for me even if it was a decent game, and Rage failed to draw me in beyond its technology too. The engines of those games haven't taken off either.

 

Carmack has definitely been wasted there. Game engines are too mature to be that interesting for him to work on, you can't have the same mindblowing steps forward that were accomplished in the early days. He's a pioneer and inventor, he should be building something like Oculus Rift which has the potential to transform gaming experiences if key technological issues can be overcome — something he specialises in. Not endlessly iterating graphical steps forward until the day he dies.

 

I hope he uses the rest of his life to bring as many of the incredible steps forward he did in his earlier days. I suspect he had some trouble letting go of id, but now he's done it he's a free man.

[AlexM]

In my eyes id "died" as soon as John Romero, Sandy Petersen and American McGee (who's probably my favorite level designer) left. Now I'm not saying id's games after Quake were bad (except maybe Quake 2), but they did not have the impact of their earlier titles even though they had great engines. I'm confident Carmack will do wonderful things at Oculus now. I think he should have done that years ago.

 

I'm with you on that