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#309 – John Carmack: Doom, Quake, VR, AGI, Programming, Video Games, and Rockets
Lex Fridman Podcast
The Book Game Engine Black Book Wolfenstein 3D
The game catacombs 3D. We shipped we were supposed to be shipping this for gamers edge on a monthly cadence and I had slipped, actually late it slipped like six weeks because this was texture mapped walls doing stuff that I hadn't done before. And at the six week point it was still kind of glitchy and buggy there were things that I knew that if you had a wall that was like almost edge on you could slide over to it but some things freak out or vanish or not work. So one of the things that I did very differently in Wolfenstein is I went catacombs used almost a conventional thing where you had segments that were one dimensional polygons basically that were
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