
Steal This Game (Ep. 1)
Gamecraft
Game Developer John Carmack - The Greatest Video Game Engine Programmer in History
John Carmack was a self-taught programmer. He looked at the problem that Softisk was trying to solve, which was, how do we get a game done every month? And he figured out a way that he could make platformer, side-scrolling platformer games work really almost as well as on a console itself. So he showed it to Romero and Romero was like, don't show it to the Softisk guys, let's quit our job and go start a company. That's essentially how it was born.
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