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Carmack's pull as an individual among tech folks, is unrivaled in gaming. I can bet that many people would willingly taken pay cuts (or more-likely skipped on
by screye 6y ago
Carmack's pull as an individual among tech folks, is unrivaled in gaming.
I can bet that many people would willingly taken pay cuts (or more-likely skipped on pay bumps) to work for a team led by Carmack.
Almost all of the other pop-culture figures in game development such as Todd Howard, Kojima and the like are designers, producers or story writers.
Carmack is the only one that is a proper coding guy.
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Maybe Carmack comes back to lead Windows mixed reality ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ and PCVR ? True wishful thinking right here.
- kridsdale1 6y agoI think a few of Nintendo's star players are (and were) coders as well as designers going back to the assembly days.
- PetitPrince 6y agoLate Satoru Iwata famously coded Pokemon Stadium battle system without design document, only by looking at the gameboy source code. He later became Nintendo CEO.