Īs reported in David Kushner's Masters of Doom, when Carmack was 14, he broke into a school to help a group of children steal Apple II computers. He cited Nintendo designer Shigeru Miyamoto as the game developer he most admired. The 1980 maze chase arcade game Pac-Man also left a strong impression on him. Ĭarmack was introduced to video games with the 1978 shoot 'em up game Space Invaders in the arcades during a summer vacation as a child. He attended Shawnee Mission East High School in Prairie Village, Kansas and Raytown South High School in nearby Raytown, Missouri.
He grew up in the Kansas City metropolitan area, where he became interested in computers at an early age. Biography Early life Ĭarmack was born in Shawnee Mission, Kansas, the son of local television news reporter Stan Carmack. In 2022, he left Oculus to work on his AGI startup, Keen Technologies. In 2019, he reduced his role to Consulting CTO so he could allocate more time toward artificial general intelligence (AGI). In 2013, he resigned from id Software to work full-time at Oculus VR as their CTO. Carmack made innovations in 3D computer graphics, such as his Carmack's Reverse algorithm for shadow volumes. 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. Carmack II (born August 21, 1970) is an American computer programmer and video game developer.
