: Not 100% sure, but is that the guy who wrote the engines for Doom and Quake?
: I'm pretty sure though I heard his name being mentioned with writing the
: Q3 and DOOM 3 engines. Someone back me up on this.
Carmack is the id of id - not like some sort of superid or something (wouldn't that be subid? or maybe metaid the way I phraded it), but as in the core personality of id Software. He's a god of a programmer and he and his company make very nice game engines. They seem to prefer licencing their engines out for other people to make actual GAMES out of them though, and only actually sell some sort of demo filler to demonstrate their engine capabilities.