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John Carmack

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John D. Carmack (born August 20, 1970) is an American computer programmer, engineer, and businessman. [1]

153 relations: Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences, Activision, Adaptive tile refresh, Adrian Carmack, Aerospace, Alamogordo, New Mexico, Apple II, Apple IIGS, Arcade game, Armadillo Aerospace, Atari, Inc. (Atari, SA subsidiary), Atheism, Bethesda Softworks, Binary space partitioning, Blizzard Entertainment, Blog, Build (game engine), Call of Duty, Catacomb (video game), Catacomb 3-D, Charitable organization, Chief technology officer, Commander Keen, Commander Keen in Aliens Ate My Babysitter, Commander Keen in Goodbye, Galaxy, Commander Keen in Invasion of the Vorticons, Commander Keen in Keen Dreams, Computer, Computer Gaming World, Daily Planet (TV series), Dangerous Dave in the Haunted Mansion, David Kushner, Dennis Fong, Discovery (Canada), Domino's Pizza, Don Daglow, Doom (1993 video game), Doom (2016 video game), Doom (film), Doom 3, Doom 3: BFG Edition, Doom 3: Resurrection of Evil, Doom 64, Doom II, Doom RPG, Electronic Arts, Emmy Award, Emulator, Enemy Territory: Quake Wars, Epic Games, ..., Eurogamer, Facebook, Federal Election Commission, Ferrari, Ferrari 328, Ferrari Testarossa, Final Doom, Finger protocol, FormGen, Game Developers Conference, GamePro, GameSpot, GNU General Public License, Half-Life (video game), Heath, Texas, Heretic (video game), Hexen: Beyond Heretic, Hovertank 3D, Id Software, Id Tech 4, Intellectual property, John Romero, Kansas City metropolitan area, Katherine Anna Kang, Ken Silverman, Las Cruces, New Mexico, Lawsuit, Linux, List of maze video games, MacOS Server, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Masters of Doom, Medal of Honor (1999 video game), Michael Morhaime, Midway Games, MIT Technology Review, National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, Nerve Software, Oculus Rift, Oculus VR, Open-source model, Open-source software, Orcs & Elves, Origin Systems, Pac-Man, Pizza, Prairie Village, Kansas, Quake (video game), Quake 4, Quake engine, Quake II, Quake III Arena, QuakeCon, Rage (video game), Ray casting, Raytown South High School, Raytown, Missouri, Red Annihilation, Republican Party (United States), Rescue Rover, Return to Castle Wolfenstein, Roeland Park, Kansas, Ron Paul, Shadow Knights, Shadow volume, ShadowCaster, Shareware, Shawnee Mission East High School, Shigeru Miyamoto, Shoot 'em up, Shooter game, Shreveport, Louisiana, Slashdot, Softdisk, Softdisk (disk magazine), Software patent, Space Invaders, Splash Damage, Steam Machine (hardware platform), Steve Jobs, Stormfront Studios, Technology & Engineering Emmy Award, The Escapist (magazine), Thermite, Thomas Sowell, Tim Sweeney (game developer), Time (magazine), TR35, Twitter, University of Missouri–Kansas City, Unreal Engine, USA Today, Utah GLX, Valve Corporation, Vaseline, Video game, Video game programmer, Walk of Game, Wolfenstein 3D, X Window System, ZeniMax Media, 3D computer graphics, 3D Realms. Expand index (103 more) »

Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences

The Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences (AIAS) is a non-profit organization of industry professionals, which organize the annual D.I.C.E. ("Design Innovate Communicate Entertain") Summit which includes the presentations of the D.I.C.E. Awards.

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Activision

Activision Publishing, Inc. is an American video game publisher.

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Adaptive tile refresh

Adaptive tile refresh is a computer graphics technique for side-scrolling video games.

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Adrian Carmack

Adrian Carmack (born May 5, 1969) is one of the four founders of id Software, along with Tom Hall, John Romero, and John Carmack (no relation).

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Aerospace

Aerospace is the human effort in science, engineering and business to fly in the atmosphere of Earth (aeronautics) and surrounding space (astronautics).

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Alamogordo, New Mexico

Alamogordo is the seat of Otero County, New Mexico, United States.

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Apple II

The Apple II (stylized as Apple.

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Apple IIGS

The Apple IIGS (styled as II), the fifth and most powerful model of the Apple II family, is a 16-bit personal computer produced by Apple Computer, Inc.

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Arcade game

An arcade game or coin-op is a coin-operated entertainment machine typically installed in public businesses such as restaurants, bars and amusement arcades.

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Armadillo Aerospace

Armadillo Aerospace was an aerospace startup company based in Mesquite, Texas.

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Atari, Inc. (Atari, SA subsidiary)

Atari, Inc. was founded in 1993 as GT Interactive Software Corp. In 1999, Infogrames Entertainment, SA acquired a controlling interest in GT Interactive, renaming it Infogrames, Inc. As part of Infogrames Entertainment's company-wide re-branding in May 2003, Infogrames, Inc.

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Atheism

Atheism is, in the broadest sense, the absence of belief in the existence of deities.

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Bethesda Softworks

Bethesda Softworks LLC is an American video game publisher based in Rockville, Maryland.

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Binary space partitioning

In computer science, binary space partitioning (BSP) is a method for recursively subdividing a space into convex sets by hyperplanes.

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Blizzard Entertainment

Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. is an American video game developer and publisher based in Irvine, California, and is a subsidiary of the American company Activision Blizzard.

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Blog

A blog (a truncation of the expression "weblog") is a discussion or informational website published on the World Wide Web consisting of discrete, often informal diary-style text entries ("posts").

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Build (game engine)

Build is a first-person shooter engine created by Ken Silverman for 3D Realms.

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Call of Duty

Call of Duty is a first-person shooter video game franchise.

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Catacomb (video game)

Catacomb is a 2-D top-down third-person shooter created by developed and published by Softdisk.

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Catacomb 3-D

Catacomb 3-D (also known as Catacomb 3-D: A New Dimension, Catacomb 3-D: The Descent, and Catacombs 3) is the third in the Catacomb series of video games (created by the founders of id Software), and the first of these games to feature 3D computer graphics.

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Charitable organization

A charitable organization or charity is a non-profit organization (NPO) whose primary objectives are philanthropy and social well-being (e.g. charitable, educational, religious, or other activities serving the public interest or common good).

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Chief technology officer

A Chief Technology Officer (CTO), sometimes known as a Chief Technical Officer, is an executive-level position in a company or other entity whose occupation is focused on scientific and technological issues within an organization.

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Commander Keen

Commander Keen is a series of side-scrolling platform video games developed primarily by id Software.

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Commander Keen in Aliens Ate My Babysitter

Commander Keen in Aliens Ate My Babysitter (stylized as Aliens Ate My Babysitter!) is a side-scrolling platform video game developed by id Software and published by FormGen in December 1991 for DOS.

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Commander Keen in Goodbye, Galaxy

Commander Keen in Goodbye, Galaxy (stylized as Goodbye, Galaxy!) is a two-part episodic side-scrolling platform video game developed by id Software and published by Apogee Software in 1991 for DOS.

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Commander Keen in Invasion of the Vorticons

Commander Keen in Invasion of the Vorticons is a three-part episodic side-scrolling platform video game developed by Ideas from the Deep (a precursor to id Software) and published by Apogee Software in 1990 for MS-DOS.

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Commander Keen in Keen Dreams

Commander Keen in Keen Dreams is a side-scrolling platform video game developed by id Software and published by Softdisk in 1991 for DOS.

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Computer

A computer is a device that can be instructed to carry out sequences of arithmetic or logical operations automatically via computer programming.

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Computer Gaming World

Computer Gaming World (CGW) was an American computer game magazine published between 1981 and 2006.

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Daily Planet (TV series)

Daily Planet is a television program on Discovery Channel Canada which features daily news, discussion and commentary on the scientific aspects of current events and discoveries.

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Dangerous Dave in the Haunted Mansion

Dangerous Dave in the Haunted Mansion (also known as Dangerous Dave 2 and under the Froggman title, Rooms of Doom) is a 1991 sequel of the computer game Dangerous Dave.

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David Kushner

David Kushner is a writer who has contributed to publications including Wired, The New York Times, Rolling Stone, SPIN, IEEE Spectrum and Salon.

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Dennis Fong

Dennis "Thresh" Fong (born March 11, 1977) is an American businessman and retired professional player of the first-person shooter video games Quake and Doom.

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Discovery (Canada)

Discovery is a Canadian English language Category A cable and satellite specialty channel that is owned by CTV Specialty Television Inc.

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Domino's Pizza

Domino's Pizza, Inc., now branded simply as Domino's, is an American pizza restaurant chain founded in 1960.

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Don Daglow

Don Daglow (born circa 1953) is an American computer game and video game designer, programmer and producer.

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Doom (1993 video game)

Doom (typeset as DOOM in official documents and stylized as DooM in other media) is a 1993 first-person shooter (FPS) video game by id Software.

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Doom (2016 video game)

Doom is a first-person shooter video game developed by id Software and published by Bethesda Softworks.

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Doom (film)

Doom is a 2005 American science fiction action horror film directed by Andrzej Bartkowiak and written by David Callaham and Wesley Strick, loosely based on the video game series of the same name created by id Software.

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Doom 3

Doom 3 (stylized as DOOM3) is a survival horror first-person shooter video game developed by id Software and published by Activision.

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Doom 3: BFG Edition

Doom 3: BFG Edition is a re-release of Doom 3, which was released on October 16, 2012 in North America, October 18, 2012, in Australia and October 19, 2012 in Europe for the Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360.

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Doom 3: Resurrection of Evil

Doom 3: Resurrection of Evil is a first-person shooter video game developed by Nerve Software and published by Activision.

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Doom 64

Doom 64 is a first-person shooter video game for the Nintendo 64 that was developed and published by Midway Games on March 31, 1997.

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Doom II

Doom II: Hell on Earth is a first-person shooter video game, the second title of id Software's Doom franchise.

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Doom RPG

Doom RPG is a mobile phone game developed by id Software and Fountainhead Entertainment.

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Electronic Arts

Electronic Arts Inc. (EA) is an American video game company headquartered in Redwood City, California.

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Emmy Award

An Emmy Award, or simply Emmy, is an American award that recognizes excellence in the television industry, and is the equivalent of an Academy Award (for film), the Tony Award (for theater), and the Grammy Award (for music).

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Emulator

In computing, an emulator is hardware or software that enables one computer system (called the host) to behave like another computer system (called the guest).

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Enemy Territory: Quake Wars

Enemy Territory: Quake Wars is a first-person shooter video game developed by Splash Damage and published by Activision for Microsoft Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.

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Epic Games

Epic Games, Inc. (formerly Potomac Computer Systems and later Epic MegaGames, Inc.) is an American video game and software development corporation based in Cary, North Carolina.

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Eurogamer

Eurogamer is a website focused on video game journalism, reviews, and other features.

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Facebook

Facebook is an American online social media and social networking service company based in Menlo Park, California.

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Federal Election Commission

The Federal Election Commission (FEC) is an independent regulatory agency whose purpose is to enforce campaign finance law in United States federal elections.

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Ferrari

Ferrari N.V. is an Italian luxury sports car manufacturer based in Maranello.

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Ferrari 328

The Ferrari 328 GTB and GTS (Type F106) was the successor to the Ferrari 308 GTB and GTS.

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Ferrari Testarossa

The Ferrari Testarossa (Type F110) is a 12-cylinder mid-engine sports car manufactured by Ferrari, which went into production in 1984 as the successor to the Ferrari Berlinetta Boxer.

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Final Doom

Final Doom is a first-person shooter video game released in 1996.

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Finger protocol

In computer networking, the Name/Finger protocol and the Finger user information protocol are simple network protocols for the exchange of human-oriented status and user information.

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FormGen

FormGen Corporation was a business software, shareware and computer game company that was founded in 1987 by friends Randy MacLean and Robert Van Rycke in Bolton, a neighbourhood in Caledon, Ontario, Canada.

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Game Developers Conference

The Game Developers Conference (GDC) is the largest annual gathering of professional video game developers, focusing on learning, inspiration, and networking.

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GamePro

GamePro was an American multiplatform video game magazine media company that published online and print content covering the video game industry, video game hardware and video game software.

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GameSpot

GameSpot is a video gaming website that provides news, reviews, previews, downloads, and other information on video games.

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GNU General Public License

The GNU General Public License (GNU GPL or GPL) is a widely used free software license, which guarantees end users the freedom to run, study, share and modify the software.

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Half-Life (video game)

Half-Life (stylized as HλLF-LIFE) is a science fiction first-person shooter video game developed by Valve and published by Sierra Studios for Microsoft Windows in 1998.

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Heath, Texas

Heath is a city in Rockwall and Kaufman Counties, Texas, United States.

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Heretic (video game)

Heretic is a dark fantasy first-person shooter video game released in 1994.

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Hexen: Beyond Heretic

Hexen: Beyond Heretic is a dark fantasy first-person shooter video game developed by Raven Software and published by id Software through GT Interactive Software on October 30, 1995.

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Hovertank 3D

Hovertank 3D, also known under a variety of other names (Hovertank, Hovertank 3-D or Hovertank One), is a vehicular combat game developed by id Software and published by Softdisk in April, 1991.

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Id Software

id Software LLC (see Company name) is an American video game developer headquartered in Dallas, Texas.

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Id Tech 4

id Tech 4, popularly known as the Doom 3 engine, is a game engine developed by id Software and first used in the video game Doom 3.

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Intellectual property

Intellectual property (IP) is a category of property that includes intangible creations of the human intellect, and primarily encompasses copyrights, patents, and trademarks.

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John Romero

Alfonso John Romero (born October 28, 1967) is an American director, designer, programmer, and developer in the video game industry.

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Kansas City metropolitan area

The Kansas City metropolitan area is a 15-county metropolitan area anchored by Kansas City, Missouri, that straddles the border between the U.S. states of Missouri and Kansas.

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Katherine Anna Kang

Katherine Anna Kang (born December 15, 1970) is an American businesswoman and film producer.

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Ken Silverman

Ken Silverman (born November 1, 1975) is an American game programmer, best known for writing the Build engine used in Duke Nukem 3D, Shadow Warrior, Blood, and more than a dozen other games in the mid- to late-1990s.

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Las Cruces, New Mexico

Las Cruces, also known as "The City of the Crosses", is the seat of Doña Ana County, New Mexico, United States.

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Lawsuit

A lawsuit (or suit in law) is "a vernacular term for a suit, action, or cause instituted or depending between two private persons in the courts of law." A lawsuit is any proceeding by a party or parties against another in a court of law.

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Linux

Linux is a family of free and open-source software operating systems built around the Linux kernel.

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List of maze video games

Maze game is a video game genre description first used by journalists during the 1980s to describe any game in which the entire playing field was a maze.

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MacOS Server

macOS Server, formerly Mac OS X Server and OS X Server, is a separately sold operating system add-on which provides additional server programs along with management and administration tools for macOS.

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.

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Masters of Doom

Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture is a 2003 book by David Kushner about id Software and its influence on popular culture, focusing chiefly on the video-game company's co-founders John D. Carmack and John Romero.

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Medal of Honor (1999 video game)

Medal of Honor is a 1999 first-person shooter video game, developed by DreamWorks Interactive and published by Electronic Arts for PlayStation.

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Michael Morhaime

Michael "Mike" Morhaime (born November 3, 1967) is president and a co-founder of Blizzard Entertainment (founded in 1991 as Silicon & Synapse), a video game developer located in Irvine, California, owned by Activision Blizzard.

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Midway Games

Midway Games Inc. (formerly Midway Manufacturing and commonly known as Midway) was an American video game developer and publisher.

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MIT Technology Review

MIT Technology Review is a magazine published by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences

The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS) was created in 1955 to advance the arts and sciences of television.

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Nerve Software

Nerve Software, LLC is an American video game developer that was co-founded by ex-id Software employee Brandon James.

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Oculus Rift

The Oculus Rift is a virtual reality headset developed and manufactured by Oculus VR, a division of Facebook Inc., released on March 28, 2016.

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Oculus VR

Oculus VR is an American technology company founded by Palmer Luckey, Brendan Iribe, Michael Antonov and Nate Mitchell in July 2012 in Irvine, California, now based in Menlo Park.

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Open-source model

The open-source model is a decentralized software-development model that encourages open collaboration.

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Open-source software

Open-source software (OSS) is a type of computer software whose source code is released under a license in which the copyright holder grants users the rights to study, change, and distribute the software to anyone and for any purpose.

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Orcs & Elves

Orcs & Elves is a adventure role-playing video game for the mobile phone and Nintendo DS.

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Origin Systems

Origin Systems, Inc. (sometimes abbreviated as OSI) was an American video game developer based in Austin, Texas, which was active from 1983 to 2004.

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Pac-Man

, stylized as PAC-MAN, is an arcade game developed by Namco and first released in Japan as Puck Man in May 1980.

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Pizza

Pizza is a traditional Italian dish consisting of a yeasted flatbread typically topped with tomato sauce and cheese and baked in an oven.

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Prairie Village, Kansas

Prairie Village is a primarily residential town in Johnson County, Kansas, United States, and part of the Kansas City Metropolitan Area.

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Quake (video game)

Quake is a first-person shooter video game, developed by id Software and published by GT Interactive in 1996.

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Quake 4

Quake 4 is a military science fiction first-person shooter video game, the fourth title in the ''Quake'' series.

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Quake engine

The Quake engine is the game engine developed by id Software to power their 1996 video game Quake.

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Quake II

Quake II is a first-person shooter video game released in December 1997.

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Quake III Arena

Quake III Arena is a multiplayer-focused first-person shooter video game released in December 1999.

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QuakeCon

QuakeCon is a yearly convention held by ZeniMax Media to celebrate and promote the major franchises of id Software and other studios owned by ZeniMax.

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Rage (video game)

Rage (stylized as RAGE) is a first-person shooter video game developed by id Software, released in November 2010 for iOS and later October 2011 for Microsoft Windows, the PlayStation 3, and the Xbox 360.

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Ray casting

Ray casting is the use of ray–surface intersection tests to solve a variety of problems in computer graphics and computational geometry.

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Raytown South High School

Raytown South Senior High School is a high school located in Raytown, Missouri.

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Raytown, Missouri

Raytown is a city in Jackson County, Missouri, United States, and is a suburb of Kansas City.

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Red Annihilation

Red Annihilation was a Quake competitive eSport event held in May 1997 that was one of the first nationwide video game competition held in the United States.

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Republican Party (United States)

The Republican Party, also referred to as the GOP (abbreviation for Grand Old Party), is one of the two major political parties in the United States, the other being its historic rival, the Democratic Party.

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Rescue Rover

Rescue Rover is a puzzle video game that was developed by id Software and published by Softdisk in 1991.

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Return to Castle Wolfenstein

Return to Castle Wolfenstein is a first-person shooter video game published by Activision, released on November 19, 2001 for Microsoft Windows and subsequently for PlayStation 2, Xbox, Linux and Macintosh.

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Roeland Park, Kansas

Roeland Park is a city in Johnson County, Kansas, United States, and part of the Kansas City metropolitan area.

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Ron Paul

Ronald Ernest Paul (born August 20, 1935) is an American author, physician and retired politician who served as the U.S. Representative for Texas's 22nd congressional district from 1976 to 1977 and again from 1979 to 1985, and for Texas's 14th congressional district from 1997 to 2013.

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Shadow Knights

Shadow Knights - The Shogun of Death (Also known as "Budo - The Art of Ninja Combat") is a platform game created by id Software and published by Softdisk in.

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Shadow volume

Shadow volume is a technique used in 3D computer graphics to add shadows to a rendered scene.

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ShadowCaster

ShadowCaster is a first-person/role-playing video game from 1993 developed by Raven Software.

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Shareware

Shareware is a type of proprietary software which is initially provided free of charge to users, who are allowed and encouraged to make and share copies of the program.

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Shawnee Mission East High School

Shawnee Mission East High School is a public secondary school in Prairie Village, Kansas, US, for grades 9 through 12.

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Shigeru Miyamoto

() is a Japanese video game designer and producer for the video game company Nintendo, currently serving as one of its representative directors.

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Shoot 'em up

Shoot 'em up (also known as shmup or STGDavies, Jonti.. GameSpy. 30 July 2008.Carless, Simon.. Game Set Watch. 5 April 2011.) is a subgenre of the shooter genre of video games.

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Shooter game

Shooter games are a subgenre of action game, which often test the player's speed and reaction time.

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Shreveport, Louisiana

Shreveport is the third-largest city in the state of Louisiana and the 122nd-largest city in the United States.

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Slashdot

Slashdot (sometimes abbreviated as /.) is a social news website that originally billed itself as "News for Nerds.

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Softdisk

Softdisk was a software and Internet company based in Shreveport, Louisiana.

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Softdisk (disk magazine)

Softdisk, originally Softdisk Magazette, was a disk magazine for the Apple II computer line, published from 1981 through 1995.

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Software patent

A software patent is a patent on a piece of software, such as a computer program, libraries, user interface, or algorithm.

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Space Invaders

is an arcade game created by Tomohiro Nishikado and released in 1978.

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Splash Damage

Splash Damage Ltd. is a British video game developer that specializes in multiplayer first-person shooter video games.

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Steam Machine (hardware platform)

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Steve Jobs

Steven Paul Jobs (February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011) was an American entrepreneur and business magnate.

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Stormfront Studios

Stormfront Studios, Inc. was an American video game developer based in San Rafael, California.

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Technology & Engineering Emmy Award

A Technology and Engineering Emmy Award is given by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS) for outstanding achievement in technical or engineering development.

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The Escapist (magazine)

The Escapist (typeset as the escapist) is an online magazine covering mostly video games as well as movies, comics, TV, and more.

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Thermite

Thermite is a pyrotechnic composition of metal powder, which serves as fuel, and metal oxide.

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Thomas Sowell

Thomas Sowell (born June 30, 1930) is an American economist and social theorist who is currently Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University.

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Tim Sweeney (game developer)

Timothy D. "Tim" Sweeney (born December 1970) is an American computer game programmer and the founder of Epic Games, being best known for his work on ZZT and the Unreal Engine.

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Time (magazine)

Time is an American weekly news magazine and news website published in New York City.

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TR35

The TR35 is an annual list published by MIT Technology Review magazine, naming the world's top 35 innovators under the age of 35.

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Twitter

Twitter is an online news and social networking service on which users post and interact with messages known as "tweets".

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University of Missouri–Kansas City

The University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC) is a public research university serving the greater Kansas City metropolitan area.

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Unreal Engine

The Unreal Engine is a game engine developed by Epic Games, first showcased in the 1998 first-person shooter game Unreal.

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USA Today

USA Today is an internationally distributed American daily, middle-market newspaper that serves as the flagship publication of its owner, the Gannett Company.

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Utah GLX

Utah GLX was a project aimed at creating a fully free and open-source basic hardware-accelerated 3D rendering using the OpenGL rendering API on Linux kernel-based operating systems.

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Valve Corporation

Valve Corporation is an American video game developer and digital distribution company headquartered in Bellevue, Washington.

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Vaseline

Vaseline Also pronounced with the main stress on the last syllable.

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Video game

A video game is an electronic game that involves interaction with a user interface to generate visual feedback on a video device such as a TV screen or computer monitor.

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Video game programmer

A game programmer is a software engineer, programmer, or computer scientist who primarily develops codebases for video games or related software, such as game development tools.

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Walk of Game

The Walk of Game was an attraction in the United States honoring the icons and pioneers of the video game industry, created in 2005 and located inside the Sony Metreon, an entertainment shopping center in San Francisco, California.

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Wolfenstein 3D

Wolfenstein 3D is a first-person shooter video game developed by id Software and published by Apogee Software and FormGen.

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X Window System

The X Window System (X11, or shortened to simply X) is a windowing system for bitmap displays, common on UNIX-like computer operating systems.

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ZeniMax Media

ZeniMax Media Inc. is an American video game holding company based in Rockville, Maryland.

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3D computer graphics

3D computer graphics or three-dimensional computer graphics, (in contrast to 2D computer graphics) are graphics that use a three-dimensional representation of geometric data (often Cartesian) that is stored in the computer for the purposes of performing calculations and rendering 2D images.

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3D Realms

Apogee Software, Ltd., since 1996 doing business as 3D Realms, is an American video game developer and publisher based in Garland, Texas.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Carmack

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