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Trailers, talks and interviews around John Carmack and the id Software engines.
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Trailer for the 2023 re-release, running on the engine Carmack designed in 1997 and released under the GPL in 2001.
Source : PlayStation
A five-hour conversation: Doom, Quake, virtual reality, rockets, his programming method and his artificial general intelligence project.
Source : Lex Fridman
The year of Doom 3 and id Tech 4: real-time dynamic lighting and cast shadows.
Source : rebelScience
Between Doom 3 and Rage: his first public thinking on virtual texturing.
Source : Charlie
The edition where id announced Quake Zero, the project that became Quake Live, from an idea of Carmack's.
Source : Charlie
Carmack announces that Quake Live will not accept user mods. A source cited in the Quake Live section.
Source : Charlie
He publicly acknowledges that the advertising model behind Quake Live has not made the project profitable.
Source : Charlie
The year of Rage and id Tech 5. He announces the GPL release of the Doom 3 source code.
Source : QuakeCon Official
His second-to-last keynote. Virtual reality already takes up a growing share of the talk.
Source : QuakeCon Official
His last QuakeCon keynote before leaving id Software that same year. He had given the talk almost every year since 1997.
Source : IGN
A technical talk on how light behaves physically and what that means for real-time rendering. Carmack lays out his method: start from first principles, then measure.
Source : Quaddicted