Great minds: John Carmack
18 October 2009, 17:28
A few years ago I downloaded John Carmack’s keynote at QuakeCon 2006. For those who don’t know, John Carmack is the co-founder of Id software, a company who revolutionized PC gaming industry with titles such as Wolfenstein, Doom and Quake.
When I downloaded it I had the intention of doing a public viewing of it at University. I was student representative at the time and I wanted to start an activity where we would view talks and then discuss about it. Of course, as with many ideas and project I have, I’ve never got around to do it.
Anyways, I was browsing my hard drive trying to free some space the other day and I stumbled on the talk and watched it. It’s good! Really good!
John speaks for more than one hour non-stop fluidly jumping on various topics such as:
- parallelism
- multi-platform development
- game development
- software engineering
- management
- less powerful game environments (cellphones, Nintendo DS)
- Id’s open sourcing views
- and even more…
I really enjoyed it and, even if its getting old, would recommend to anyone interested in software in general.
I’ve lost the original download link but here’s one I’ve just found: QuakeCon 06: John Carmack Keynote Address
— Olivier Bilodeau
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