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John Carmack Biography
John Carmack is one of the famous Game Designer, who was born on the memorable day of August 20 in the year 1970. Hailing from the vibrant city of Kansas, John Carmack is a proud citizen of United States.
Notable for founding the Id Software company, Carmack created a number of popular video games, including Rage, Doom, Commander Keen, and Wolfenstein 3D.
Over the years, not only have skills been honed, but a significant impact has also been made in the professional field. Whether it's through work, public appearances, or contributions to the community, John Carmack continues to be an inspiration for many.
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Education
University of Missouri–Kansas City; Raytown South High School; Shawnee Mission East High School
Family
His marriage to fellow video game designer Katherine Anna Kang resulted in two children.
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He and fellow Kansas native Matt Burch both had successful careers as software programmers.
Career
In his early teens, he was arrested for his role in an Apple computer heist at a school in his hometown. Later, after briefly studying at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, he began working for a Louisiana-based computer technology company called Softdisk.
Trivia
He launched a visionary, Texas-based company called Armadillo Aerospace that initially aimed to operate commercial spaceflights.
Net Worth & Salary
John Carmack net worth is $50 Million.
John Carmack Timeline
1978
Carmack was introduced to video games with the 1978 shoot 'em up game Space Invaders in the arcades during a summer vacation as a child.
1980
The 1980 maze chase arcade game Pac-Man also left a strong impression on him.
1990
He co-founded the video game company id Software and was the lead programmer of its 1990s games Commander Keen, Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, Quake, and their sequels.
1994
Carmack was so successful at id that by mid-1994 he had purchased two Ferraris: a 328 and a Ferrari Testarossa.
1995
Carmack released the source code for Wolfenstein 3D in 1995 and the Doom source code in 1997, first under a custom license and then under the GNU General Public License (GPL) in 1999.
1997
When the source code to Quake was leaked and circulated among the Quake community underground in 1997 after licensee Crack dot Com was hacked, a programmer unaffiliated with id Software named Greg Alexander used it to port Quake to Linux using SVGALib.
1999
id Software has since publicly released the source code to Quake in 1999, Quake 2 in 2001, Quake 3 in 2005 and lastly Doom 3 in 2011 (and later the BFG Edition in 2012).
2000
Around 2000, Carmack became interested in rocketry, a hobby of his youth.
2004
Carmack and Kang had a son Christopher Ryan in August 2004.
2006
Carmack has a blog last updated in 2006 (previously a .plan), an active Twitter account, and also occasionally posts comments to Slashdot.
2007
In 2007, when Carmack was on vacation with his wife, he ended up playing some games on his cellphone, and decided he was going to make a "good" mobile game.
2008
In October 2008, Armadillo Aerospace competed in a NASA contest known as the Lunar Lander Challenge, winning first place in the Level 1 competition along with $350,000 (~$438,779 in 2021).
2009
In September 2009, they completed Level 2 and were awarded $500,000 (~$622,869 in 2021).
2012
Carmack supported the 2012 presidential campaign of Libertarian Ron Paul, and is an atheist.
2013
In 2013, he resigned from id Software to work full-time at Oculus VR as their CTO.
2014
The source code for Hovertank 3D and Catacomb 3D (as well as Carmack's earlier Catacomb) was released in June 2014 by Flat Rock Software with Carmack's blessing.
2017
In February 2017, Carmack sued ZeniMax, claiming the company had refused to pay him the remaining $22.5 million (~$24.7 million in 2021) owed to him from their purchase of id Software.
2018
In October 2018, Carmack stated that he and ZeniMax had reached an agreement and that "Zenimax has fully satisfied their obligations to me", ending the suit.
2019
In 2019, he reduced his role to Consulting CTO so he could allocate more time toward artificial general intelligence (AGI).
2022
In 2022, he left Oculus to work on his AGI startup, Keen Technologies.
