Apparently John Carmack thought highly of Ken's programming, too: "Carmack: Well there's a big difference between who I consider the most talented and who I wo

Apparently John Carmack thought highly of Ken's programming, too: "Carmack: Well there's a big difference between who I consider the most talented and who I would necessarily hire, because you have to hire people that fit right. If I had to pick who I think is just the most talented, it would probably be Ken Silverman, the guy that did the BUILD engine. He does engines and tools. He's great as an editor. He writes all the code for everything, and he's just extremely talented. I think it was 3D Realms' worst decisions not to coddle him, or whatever it took, to keep him on board. I think if he was still working directly for 3D Realms, they would have a Quake-type game shipped by now, just because he's extraordinarily good." http://advsys.net/ken/carmken.htm http://advsys.net/ken/carmken.htm —and he's now working on the voxel display project that was on HN yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25549717 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25549717