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John Carmack, the Glossary

John D. Carmack II (born August 21, 1970) is an American computer programmer and video game developer.^[1]

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Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences

The Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences (AIAS) is a non-profit organization of video game industry professionals.

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Activision

Activision Publishing, Inc. is an American video game publisher based in Santa Monica, California.

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Adaptive tile refresh

Adaptive tile refresh is a computer graphics technique for side-scrolling video games.

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Adrian Carmack (born May 5, 1969) is an American video game artist and one of four co-founders of id Software, along with Tom Hall, John Romero, and John Carmack (no relation). John Carmack and Adrian Carmack are id Software people.

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Alamogordo, New Mexico

Alamogordo is the seat of Otero County, New Mexico, United States.

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Apple II

The Apple II series of microcomputers was initially designed by Steve Wozniak, manufactured by Apple Computer (now Apple Inc.), and launched in 1977 with the Apple II model that gave the series its name.

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Apple IIGS

The Apple IIGS (styled as II) is a 16-bit personal computer produced by Apple Computer.

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Arcade game

An arcade game or coin-op game is a coin-operated entertainment machine typically installed in public businesses such as restaurants, bars and amusement arcades.

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Armadillo Aerospace

Armadillo Aerospace was an aerospace startup company based in Mesquite, Texas.

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Artificial general intelligence

Artificial general intelligence (AGI) is a type of artificial intelligence (AI) that matches or surpasses human capabilities across a wide range of cognitive tasks.

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Atari, Inc. (1993–present)

Atari, Inc. is an American subsidiary and publishing arm of Atari SA.

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Atheism

Atheism, in the broadest sense, is an absence of belief in the existence of deities.

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Beat Saber

Beat Saber is a virtual reality rhythm game developed by Slovaks Ján Ilavský, Vladimír Hrinčár, and Peter Hrinčár.

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Bethesda Softworks

Bethesda Softworks LLC is an American video game publisher based in Rockville, Maryland.

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Binary space partitioning

In computer science, binary space partitioning (BSP) is a method for space partitioning which recursively subdivides a Euclidean space into two convex sets by using hyperplanes as partitions.

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Blizzard Entertainment

Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. is an American video game developer and publisher based in Irvine, California.

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Blog

A blog (a truncation of "weblog") is an informational website consisting of discrete, often informal diary-style text entries (posts).

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British Academy of Film and Television Arts

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) is an independent trade association and charity that supports, develops, and promotes the arts of film, television and video games in the United Kingdom.

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BSD licenses

BSD licenses are a family of permissive free software licenses, imposing minimal restrictions on the use and distribution of covered software.

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Build (game engine)

The Build Engine is a first-person shooter engine created by Ken Silverman, author of Ken's Labyrinth, for 3D Realms.

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Call of Duty

Call of Duty is a military video game series and media franchise published by Activision, starting in 2003.

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Catacomb (video game)

Catacomb is a 2-D top-down third-person shooter developed and published by Softdisk.

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Catacomb 3-D

Catacomb 3-D (also known as Catacomb 3-D: A New Dimension, Catacomb 3-D: The Descent, and Catacombs 3) is a first-person shooter video game, the third in the Catacomb series, the first of which to feature 3D computer graphics.

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Charitable organization

A charitable organization or charity is an organization whose primary objectives are philanthropy and social well-being (e.g. educational, religious or other activities serving the public interest or common good).

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Chief technology officer

A chief technology officer (CTO) (also known as a chief technical officer or chief technologist) is an officer tasked with managing technical operations of an organization.

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Clipmap

In computer graphics, clipmapping is a method of clipping a mipmap to a subset of data pertinent to the geometry being displayed.

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Commander Keen

Commander Keen is a series of side-scrolling platform video games developed primarily by id Software.

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Commander Keen in Aliens Ate My Babysitter

Commander Keen in Aliens Ate My Babysitter (stylized as Aliens Ate My Babysitter!) is a side-scrolling platform video game developed by id Software and published by FormGen in December 1991 for DOS.

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Commander Keen in Goodbye, Galaxy

Commander Keen in Goodbye, Galaxy (stylized as Goodbye, Galaxy!) is a two-part episodic side-scrolling platform video game developed by id Software and published by Apogee Software in 1991 for DOS.

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Commander Keen in Invasion of the Vorticons

Commander Keen in Invasion of the Vorticons is a three-part episodic side-scrolling platform video game developed by Ideas from the Deep (a precursor to id Software) and published by Apogee Software in 1990 for MS-DOS.

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Commander Keen in Keen Dreams

Commander Keen in Keen Dreams is a side-scrolling platform video game developed by id Software and published by Softdisk in 1991 for DOS.

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Computer

A computer is a machine that can be programmed to automatically carry out sequences of arithmetic or logical operations (computation).

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Computer Gaming World

Computer Gaming World (CGW) was an American computer game magazine published between 1981 and 2006.

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Copyleft

Copyleft is the legal technique of granting certain freedoms over copies of copyrighted works with the requirement that the same rights be preserved in derivative works.

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Crack dot Com

Crack dot Com was a computer game development company co-founded by ex-id Software programmer Dave Taylor, and Jonathan Clark.

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Creative Technology

Creative Technology Ltd., or Creative Labs Pte Ltd., is a Singaporean multinational technology company.

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D.I.C.E. Awards

The D.I.C.E. Awards (formerly the Interactive Achievement Awards) is an annual awards show in the video game industry, and commonly referred to as the video game equivalent of the Academy Awards.

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Daily Planet (TV series)

Daily Planet is a television program on Discovery Channel Canada which features daily news, discussion and commentary on the scientific aspects of current events and discoveries.

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Dangerous Dave in the Haunted Mansion

Dangerous Dave in the Haunted Mansion (also known as Dangerous Dave 2 and under the Froggman title, Rooms of Doom) is a 1991 sequel of the computer game Dangerous Dave.

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Dave Taylor (game programmer)

Dave D. Taylor is an American game programmer, best known as a former id Software employee and noted for his work promoting Linux gaming. John Carmack and Dave Taylor (game programmer) are American video game programmers.

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Dennis Fong

Dennis Fong, better known by his online alias Thresh, is an American businessman and retired professional player of the first-person shooter video games Quake and Doom. John Carmack and Dennis Fong are American computer businesspeople, American technology chief executives and American technology company founders.

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Discovery Channel (Canadian TV channel)

Discovery Channel (often referred to as simply Discovery) is a Canadian discretionary specialty television channel owned by CTV Specialty Television Inc. (a joint venture between Bell Media & ESPN Inc. that owns 80%) and Warner Bros. Discovery (which owns the remaining 20%). Launched on January 1, 1995 by NetStar Communications, this channel is devoted to nature, adventure, science and technology programming.

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Domino's

Domino's Pizza, Inc., commonly referred to as Domino's, is an American multinational pizza restaurant chain founded in 1960.

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Don Daglow

Don Daglow (born circa 1953) is an American video game designer, programmer, and producer. John Carmack and Don Daglow are American video game designers and American video game programmers.

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Doom (1993 video game)

Doom is a first-person shooter game developed and published by id Software.

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Doom (film)

Doom is a 2005 science fiction film directed by Andrzej Bartkowiak.

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Doom (franchise)

Doom (stylized as DOOM) is an American media franchise created by John Carmack, John Romero, Adrian Carmack, Kevin Cloud, and Tom Hall.

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Doom 3

Doom 3 is a 2004 survival horror first-person shooter video game developed by id Software and published by Activision.

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Doom 3: BFG Edition

Doom 3: BFG Edition is a remastered version of Doom 3, which released on October 16, 2012 in North America and on October 19, 2012 in Europe for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360.

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Doom 3: Resurrection of Evil

Doom 3: Resurrection of Evil is a survival horror first-person shooter video game developed by Nerve Software and published by Activision.

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Doom 64

Doom 64 is a first-person shooter game by Midway.

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Doom II

Doom II, also known as Doom II: Hell on Earth, is a first-person shooter game in the Doom franchise developed by id Software.

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Doom RPG

Doom RPG is a mobile phone game developed by Fountainhead Entertainment and published by JAMDAT Mobile.

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Electronic Arts

Electronic Arts Inc. (EA) is an American video game company headquartered in Redwood City, California.

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Emmy Awards

The Emmy Awards, or Emmys, are an extensive range of awards for artistic and technical merit for the American and international television industry.

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Emulator

In computing, an emulator is hardware or software that enables one computer system (called the host) to behave like another computer system (called the guest).

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Enemy Territory: Quake Wars

Enemy Territory: Quake Wars is a first-person shooter video game developed by Splash Damage and published by Activision for Microsoft Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.

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Engadget

Engadget is a technology news, reviews and analysis website offering daily coverage of gadgets, consumer electronics, video games, gaming hardware, apps, social media, streaming, AI, space, robotics, electric vehicles and other potentially consumer-facing technology.

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Engineer

Engineers, as practitioners of engineering, are professionals who invent, design, analyze, build and test machines, complex systems, structures, gadgets and materials to fulfill functional objectives and requirements while considering the limitations imposed by practicality, regulation, safety and cost.

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Epic Games

Epic Games, Inc. is an American video game and software developer and publisher based in Cary, North Carolina.

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Eurogamer

Eurogamer is a British video game journalism website launched in 1999 alongside parent company Gamer Network.

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Facebook

Facebook is a social media and social networking service owned by American technology conglomerate Meta.

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Fast inverse square root

Fast inverse square root, sometimes referred to as or by the hexadecimal constant, is an algorithm that estimates \frac, the reciprocal (or multiplicative inverse) of the square root of a 32-bit floating-point number x in IEEE 754 floating-point format.

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Federal Election Commission

The Federal Election Commission (FEC) is an independent agency of the United States government that enforces U.S. campaign finance laws and oversees U.S. federal elections.

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Ferrari

Ferrari S.p.A. is an Italian luxury sports car manufacturer based in Maranello.

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Ferrari 328

The Ferrari 328 GTB and GTS (Type F106) are mid-engine V8, two-seat sports cars created by Italian automobile manufacturer Ferrari.

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Ferrari Testarossa

The Ferrari Testarossa (Type F110) is a 12-cylinder mid-engine sports car manufactured by Ferrari, which went into production in 1984 as the successor to the Ferrari Berlinetta Boxer.

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Final Doom

Final Doom is a first-person shooter video game developed by TeamTNT, and Dario and Milo Casali, and was released by id Software and distributed by GT Interactive in 1996.

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Finger (protocol)

In computer networking, the Name/Finger protocol and the Finger user information protocol are simple network protocols for the exchange of human-oriented status and user information.

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FormGen

FormGen Corporation was a developer of business software and publisher of video games based in Scottsdale, Arizona.

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Game Developer (website)

Game Developer (known as Gamasutra until 2021) is a website created in 1997 that focuses on aspects of video game development.

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Game Developers Choice Awards

The Game Developers Choice Awards are awards annually presented at the Game Developers Conference for outstanding game developers and games.

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Game Developers Conference

The Game Developers Conference (GDC) is an annual conference for video game developers.

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GameSpot

GameSpot is an American video gaming website that provides news, reviews, previews, downloads, and other information on video games.

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GameSpy

GameSpy was an American provider of online multiplayer and matchmaking middleware for video games founded in 1999 by Mark Surfas.

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GNU General Public License

The GNU General Public License (GNU GPL or simply GPL) is a series of widely used free software licenses, or copyleft, that guarantee end users the four freedoms to run, study, share, and modify the software.

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Gradient descent

Gradient descent is a method for unconstrained mathematical optimization.

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Half-Life (video game)

Half-Life is a 1998 first-person shooter game developed by Valve Corporation and published by Sierra Studios for Windows.

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Heretic (video game)

Heretic is a dark fantasy first-person shooter video game released in December 1994.

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Hexen: Beyond Heretic

Hexen: Beyond Heretic is a fantasy first-person shooter video game developed by Raven Software and published by id Software distributed through GT Interactive on October 30, 1995.

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Hovertank One

Hovertank One, also known under a variety of other names (Hovertank or Hovertank 3D), is a vehicular combat game developed by id Software and published by Softdisk in April 1991.

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Id Software

id Software LLC is an American video game developer based in Richardson, Texas.

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Id Tech 4

id Tech 4, popularly known as the Doom 3 engine, is a game engine developed by id Software and first used in the video game Doom 3.

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IGN

IGN is an American video game and entertainment media website operated by IGN Entertainment Inc., a subsidiary of Ziff Davis, Inc.

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Innovation

Innovation is the practical implementation of ideas that result in the introduction of new goods or services or improvement in offering goods or services.

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Innovators Under 35

The Innovators Under 35 is a peer-reviewed annual award and listicle published by MIT Technology Review magazine, naming the world's top 35 innovators under the age of 35.

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Intellectual property

Intellectual property (IP) is a category of property that includes intangible creations of the human intellect.

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Joe Rogan

Joseph James Rogan (born August 11, 1967) is an American podcaster, UFC color commentator, comedian, actor, and former television host.

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John Romero

Alfonso John Romero (born October 28, 1967) is an American director, designer, programmer and developer in the video game industry. John Carmack and John Romero are American atheists, American video game designers, American video game programmers, game Developers Conference Lifetime Achievement Award recipients and id Software people.

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Judo

is an unarmed modern Japanese martial art, combat sport, Olympic sport (since 1964), and the most prominent form of jacket wrestling competed internationally.

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Kansas City metropolitan area

The Kansas City metropolitan area is a bi-state metropolitan area anchored by Kansas City, Missouri.

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Katherine Anna Kang

Katherine Anna Kang (born December 15, 1970) is an American video game designer. John Carmack and Katherine Anna Kang are American aerospace businesspeople, American technology chief executives and id Software people.

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Ken Silverman

Ken Silverman (born November 1, 1975) is an American game programmer, best known for writing the Build engine. John Carmack and Ken Silverman are American video game programmers.

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Kotaku

Kotaku is a video game website and blog that was originally launched in 2004 as part of the Gawker Media network.

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Las Cruces, New Mexico

Las Cruces ("the crosses") is the second-most populous city in the U.S. state of New Mexico and the seat of Doña Ana County.

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Lawsuit

A lawsuit is a proceeding by one or more parties (the plaintiff or claimant) against one or more parties (the defendant) in a civil court of law.

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Libertarian Party (United States)

The Libertarian Party (LP) is a political party in the United States that promotes civil liberties, non-interventionism, ''laissez-faire'' capitalism, and limiting the size and scope of government.

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Linux

Linux is both an open-source Unix-like kernel and a generic name for a family of open-source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991, by Linus Torvalds.

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Lunar Lander Challenge

The Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge (NG-LLC) was a competition funded by NASA's Centennial Challenges program.

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Mac OS X Server

Mac OS X Server is a series of discontinued Unix-like server operating systems developed by Apple Inc. based on macOS.

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Masters of Doom

Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture is a 2003 book by David Kushner about video game company id Software and its influence on popular culture, focusing on co-founders John Carmack and John Romero.

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Medal of Honor (1999 video game)

Medal of Honor is a 1999 first-person shooter video game, developed by DreamWorks Interactive and published by Electronic Arts for PlayStation.

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Michael Morhaime

Michael Morhaime (born November 3, 1967) is an American video game developer and entrepreneur. John Carmack and Michael Morhaime are Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences Hall of Fame inductees.

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Midway Games

Midway Games Inc., known previously as Midway Manufacturing and Bally Midway, and commonly known as simply Midway, was an American video game developer and publisher.

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MIT Technology Review

MIT Technology Review is a bimonthly magazine wholly owned by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and editorially independent of the university.

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Mountain King Studios

Mountain King Studios (formerly known as Cygnus Studios) is a computer game company located in Chicago, Illinois.

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NASA

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the U.S. federal government responsible for the civil space program, aeronautics research, and space research.

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National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences

The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS) is an American professional service organization founded in 1955 for "the advancement of the arts and sciences of television and the promotion of creative leadership for artistic, educational and technical achievements within the television industry".

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Nerve Software

Nerve Software, LLC was an American video game developer that was co-founded by ex-id Software employee Brandon James.

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Nintendo

is a Japanese multinational video game company headquartered in Kyoto.

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Open-source software

Open-source software (OSS) is computer software that is released under a license in which the copyright holder grants users the rights to use, study, change, and distribute the software and its source code to anyone and for any purpose.

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Orcs & Elves

Orcs & Elves is an adventure role-playing video game for the mobile phone and Nintendo DS.

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Origin Systems

Origin Systems, Inc. was an American video game developer based in Austin, Texas.

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Pac-Man

originally called Puck Man in Japan, is a 1980 maze video game developed and released by Namco for arcades.

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Permissive software license

A permissive software license, sometimes also called BSD-like or BSD-style license, is a free-software license which instead of copyleft protections, carries only minimal restrictions on how the software can be used, modified, and redistributed, usually including a warranty disclaimer.

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Phoronix Test Suite

Phoronix Test Suite (PTS) is a free and open-source benchmark software for Linux and other operating systems.

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Polygon (website)

Polygon is an American entertainment website by Vox Media covering video games, movies, television, and other popular culture.

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Prairie Village, Kansas

Prairie Village is a city in Johnson County, Kansas, United States, and located within the Kansas City Metropolitan Area.

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Programmer

A programmer, computer programmer or coder is an author of computer source code someone with skill in computer programming.

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Quake (series)

Quake is a series of first-person shooter video games, developed by id Software and, as of 2010, published by Bethesda Softworks.

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Quake (video game)

Quake is a first-person shooter game developed by id Software and published by GT Interactive.

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Quake 4

Quake 4 is a 2005 first-person shooter video game developed by Raven Software and published by Activision.

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Quake engine

The Quake engine is the game engine developed by id Software to power their 1996 video game Quake.

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Quake II

Quake II is a 1997 first-person shooter video game developed by id Software and published by Activision.

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Quake III Arena

Quake III Arena is a 1999 multiplayer-focused first-person shooter developed by id Software.

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QuakeCon

QuakeCon is a yearly convention held by ZeniMax Media to celebrate and promote the major franchises of id Software and other studios owned by ZeniMax.

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Rage (video game)

Rage is a first-person shooter video game developed by id Software and published by Bethesda Softworks, released in October 2011 for Microsoft Windows, the PlayStation 3, and the Xbox 360, and in February 2012 for OS X. It was first shown as a tech demo at the 2007 Apple Worldwide Developers Conference and was announced at the QuakeCon.

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Random House

Random House is an imprint and publishing group of Penguin Random House.

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Ray casting

Ray casting is the methodological basis for 3D CAD/CAM solid modeling and image rendering.

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Raytown South High School

Raytown South Senior High School is a high school located in Raytown, Missouri.

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Raytown, Missouri

Raytown is a city in Jackson County, Missouri, United States, and is a suburb of Kansas City.

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Reality Labs

Reality Labs, formerly Oculus VR, is a business and research unit of Meta Platforms (formerly Facebook Inc.) that produces virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) hardware and software, including virtual reality headsets such as Quest, and online platforms such as Horizon Worlds.

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Red Annihilation

Red Annihilation was a Quake competitive eSport event held in May 1997 that was one of the first nationwide video game competitions held in the United States.

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Red Hat

Red Hat, Inc. (formerly Red Hat Software, Inc.) is an American software company that provides open source software products to enterprises and is a subsidiary of IBM.

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Rescue Rover

Rescue Rover is a puzzle video game that was developed by id Software and published by Softdisk in 1991.

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Return to Castle Wolfenstein

Return to Castle Wolfenstein is a first-person shooter video game published by Activision, released on November 20, 2001, for Microsoft Windows and subsequently for PlayStation 2, Xbox, Linux and Macintosh.

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Ron Paul

Ronald Ernest Paul (born August 20, 1935) is an American author, activist, physician and retired politician who served as the U.S. representative for Texas's 22nd congressional district from 1976 to 1977 and again from 1979 to 1985, as well as for Texas's 14th congressional district from 1997 to 2013. John Carmack and Ron Paul are Texas Libertarians.

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Ron Paul 2012 presidential campaign

From 2011 to 2012, Ron Paul, a U.S. representative from Texas, unsuccessfully ran for the 2012 Republican Party nomination for the president of the United States.

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Sams Publishing

Sams Publishing (originally Howard W. Sams & Co.) is an imprint for technical training manuals owned by the global education company Pearson plc.

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Shadow Knights

Shadow Knights - The Shogun of Death, also known as Budo - The Art of Ninja Combat, is a platform game created by id Software and published by Softdisk in 1991.

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Shadow volume

Shadow volume is a technique used in 3D computer graphics to add shadows to a rendered scene.

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ShadowCaster

ShadowCaster is a first-person role-playing video game developed by Raven Software.

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Shareware is a type of proprietary software that is initially shared by the owner for trial use at little or no cost.

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Shawnee Mission East High School

Shawnee Mission East High School is a public high school in Prairie Village, Kansas, United States, for grades 9 through 12.

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Shawnee Mission, Kansas

Shawnee Mission is a region of northern Johnson County, Kansas, part of the Kansas City metropolitan area in the United States.

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Shigeru Miyamoto

is a Japanese video game designer, producer and game director at Nintendo, where he serves as one of its representative directors as an executive since 2002. John Carmack and Shigeru Miyamoto are Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences Hall of Fame inductees, BAFTA fellows and game Developers Conference Lifetime Achievement Award recipients.

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Shoot 'em up

Shoot 'em ups (also known as shmups or STGs) are a sub-genre of action games.

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Shooter game

Shooter video games or shooters are a subgenre of action video games where the focus is on the defeat of the character's enemies using ranged weapons given to the player.

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Shreveport, Louisiana

Shreveport is a city in the U.S. state of Louisiana.

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Slashdot

Slashdot (sometimes abbreviated as /.) is a social news website that originally billed itself as "News for Nerds.

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Slordax: The Unknown Enemy

Slordax: The Unknown Enemy is a vertically scrolling shooter for MS-DOS, published by the software company Softdisk in 1991.

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Softdisk

Softdisk was a software and Internet company based in Shreveport, Louisiana.

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Softdisk (disk magazine)

Softdisk, originally Softdisk Magazette, was a disk magazine for the Apple II computer line, published from 1981 through 1995.

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Software patent

A software patent is a patent on a piece of software, such as a computer program, libraries, user interface, or algorithm.

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Space Invaders

is a 1978 shoot 'em up arcade video game, developed and released by Taito in Japan and licensed to Midway Manufacturing for overseas distribution.

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Splash Damage

Splash Damage Ltd. is a British video game developer specialising in multiplayer first-person shooter video games.

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Stormfront Studios

Stormfront Studios, Inc. was an American video game developer based in San Rafael, California.

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Summer

Summer is the hottest and brightest of the four temperate seasons, occurring after spring and before autumn.

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SVGALib

SVGAlib is an open-source low-level graphics library which ran on Linux and FreeBSD and allowed programs to change video mode and display full-screen graphics, without the use of a windowing system.

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Technology and Engineering Emmy Awards

The Technology and Engineering Emmy Awards, or Technology and Engineering Emmys, are one of two sets of Emmy Awards that are presented for outstanding achievement in engineering development in the television industry.

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The Escapist (magazine)

The Escapist (formerly known as Escapist Magazine) is an American video game website and online magazine.

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The Joe Rogan Experience

The Joe Rogan Experience is a podcast hosted by American comedian, presenter, and UFC color commentator Joe Rogan.

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Thermite

Thermite is a pyrotechnic composition of metal powder and metal oxide.

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Tim Sweeney

Timothy Dean Sweeney (born 1970) is an American video game programmer and businessman. John Carmack and Tim Sweeney are Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences Hall of Fame inductees, American technology chief executives, American technology company founders, American video game designers, American video game programmers and game Developers Conference Lifetime Achievement Award recipients.

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Time (magazine)

Time (stylized in all caps as TIME) is an American news magazine based in New York City.

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Twitter

X, commonly referred to by its former name Twitter, is a social networking service.

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University of Missouri–Kansas City

The University of Missouri–Kansas City (UMKC or Kansas City) is a public research university in Kansas City, Missouri.

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Unreal Engine

Unreal Engine (UE) is a 3D computer graphics game engine developed by Epic Games, first showcased in the 1998 first-person shooter video game Unreal.

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USA Today

USA Today (often stylized in all caps) is an American daily middle-market newspaper and news broadcasting company.

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Utah GLX

Utah GLX was a project aimed at creating a fully free and open-source basic hardware-accelerated 3D renderer using the OpenGL rendering API on Linux kernel-based operating systems.

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Vaseline

VaselineAlso pronounced with the main stress on the last syllable.

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Video game

A video game or computer game is an electronic game that involves interaction with a user interface or input device (such as a joystick, controller, keyboard, or motion sensing device) to generate visual feedback from a display device, most commonly shown in a video format on a television set, computer monitor, flat-panel display or touchscreen on handheld devices, or a virtual reality headset.

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Video game developer

A video game developer is a software developer specializing in video game development – the process and related disciplines of creating video games.

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Video game programmer

A game programmer is a software engineer, programmer, or computer scientist who primarily develops codebases for video games or related software, such as game development tools.

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Video games and Linux

Linux-based operating systems can be used for playing video games.

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Walk of Game

The Walk of Game was an attraction in the United States honoring the icons and pioneers of the video game industry, created in 2005 and located inside the Sony Metreon, an entertainment shopping center in San Francisco, California.

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Wired (magazine)

Wired (stylized in all caps) is a monthly American magazine, published in print and online editions, that focuses on how emerging technologies affect culture, the economy, and politics.

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Wolfenstein 3D

Wolfenstein 3D is a first-person shooter video game developed by id Software and published by Apogee Software and FormGen.

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X Window System

The X Window System (X11, or simply X) is a windowing system for bitmap displays, common on Unix-like operating systems.

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YouTube

YouTube is an American online video sharing platform owned by Google.

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ZeniMax Media Inc. is an American video game holding company based in Rockville, Maryland.

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3D computer graphics

3D computer graphics, sometimes called CGI, 3-D-CGI or three-dimensional computer graphics, are graphics that use a three-dimensional representation of geometric data (often Cartesian) that is stored in the computer for the purposes of performing calculations and rendering digital images, usually 2D images but sometimes 3D images.

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3D Realms

3D Realms Entertainment ApS is a video game publisher based in Aalborg, Denmark.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Carmack

Also known as Carmack, John, John D Carmack, John D. Carmack, John D. Carmack II.

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