What is John Carmack?
[[Image:John Carmack E3 2006.jpg|thumb|John Carmack at the 2006 [[E3]]]] '''John D. Carmack II''' (born August 20, 1970) is a well known [[video game]] creator. He was one of the creators of [[id Software]], a [[video game]] company, in 1991. Carmack was the main programmer of the [[first-person shooter]] games ''[[Wolfenstein 3D]]'', ''[[Doom]]'', ''[[Quake (video game)|Quake]]'', and their sequels. In 1999, Carmack appeared as number 10 in [[Time (magazine)|TIME]]'s list of the ''50 most influential people in [[technology]]''.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.time.com/time/digital/digital50/10.html |title=TIME Digital -- Digital 50 - JOHN CARMACK |access-date=2014-09-25 |archive-date=2000-05-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20000510222914/http://www.time.com/time/digital/digital50/10.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> Carmack married [[Katherine Anna Kang]] in January 2000. Their son, Christopher Ryan, was born on August 13, 2004. In March 2006, Carmack was added to the ''Walk of Game'', an event that names the most important people in [[video games]]. == References == <references /> * [[David Kushner|Kushner, David]] (2003). ''Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture'', New York: Random House. {{ISBN|0375505245}}. {{DEFAULTSORT:Carmack, John}} [[Category:1970 births]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:Businesspeople from Kansas|Carmack, John]] [[Category:American computer scientists|Carmack, John]] [[Category:Scientists from Kansas]] [[Category:American bloggers]] {{US-bio-stub}}