Masters Of Doom

Date

2019/11/30

Description

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A story that follows the creators of the game Doom, Castle Wolfenstein 3D and Quake. It provides a behind the scenes look at what it took to create the games and birth a whole new genre of games as well as e-sports.

Takeaways

• Carmack would regularly make himself unavailble when working on problems that required long periods of focused concentration
• A recurring observation when looking at other people creating something entirely new
  • A team of obsessive fanatics
  • At least one person has accurate observations of external/global trends
  • Long hours
• Carmack would ruthlessly prune people from his life and business when he decided things were not working
• Carmack could not have created the games without the vision of Romero, and Remero could not have created the games without the technical abilities of Carmack