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John Carmack Retiring?

Posted by michael on from the porch-rocking-chair-and-lemonade dept.

Skab writes "CNN money is building a case for hypothesizing that John Carmack's next project may be the programmer's last."

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  1. Sad by X3J11 · · Score: 5, Funny

    For a computer nerd like myself, this is just as sad as hearing that my favourite band won't be making music any more. That's pretty pathetic, isn't it. :)

    1. Re:Sad by xenocide2 · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Judging by the games, I'd say its closer to Stratovarious not making instruments anymore. No direct impact, but you might not play games based on carmack technology anymore =)

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  2. * Rolls Eyes * by DeckerEgo · · Score: 5, Funny

    People have been saying this for about... oh... three years now. The only one who knows is John - and he'll quit when he gets tired of it. That's all.

    Developers at Id have all been asked this question at one point in time, and all have said "yeah, he probably has one or two more engines in him." All have pretty much indicated that he has a "holy grail" engine he has constantly been working towards since he wrote his first side-scroller. Once he gets that done, he'll probably go launch himself into space and work on the teleporter on Phobos himself.

  3. Epitaph by Rubberpants.net · · Score: 5, Funny

    As a fellow pasty-white awkward nerd, I salute you John. You made geek cool.

  4. Next game announced... by Taulin · · Score: 5, Funny

    Since he will start working on DNF, I guess he will never actually be retiring.

  5. Lord, we call this news?! by DeltaSigma · · Score: 5, Informative
    GameSpy: Are you going to retire after DOOM 3?
    John Carmack: No. I've got at least one more rendering engine to write. The development of rendering engines is driven by two major factors. One of these is, of course, the question, "When you finish a game, is it time to write a new engine?" The answer is based on what is happening in the hardware space...
    Aug. 16, 2003 - Source

    John Carmack is an accessible public figure. If you want to know, ask him. There's no need for speculation.