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BookRecommended
Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution
Steven Levy
“a really formative book for me”
“Steven Levy's book Hackers was a really formative book for me as a teenager, I mean read it several times”— John Carmack
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Game Engine Black Book: Wolfenstein 3D
Fabien Sanglard
“you've recommended the book”
“you've recommended the book Game Engine Black Book Wolfenstein 3D for technical exploration of the game”— John Carmack
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Demeo
Resolution Games (inferred)
“really an awesome VR game”
“he wrote working on a game called Demeo which is really an awesome VR game it's like Dungeons and Dragons”— John Carmack
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Beat Saber
Beat Games (inferred)
“more fun than doing it just about any other way”
“if you go play an hour of Beat Saber or Supernatural or something that is legit solid exercise and it's more fun than doing it just about any other way”— John Carmack
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Supernatural
Within (inferred)
“more fun than doing it just about any other way”
“if you go play an hour of Beat Saber or Supernatural or something that is legit solid exercise and it's more fun than doing it just about any other way”— John Carmack
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The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
Bethesda Game Studios (inferred)
“it just takes you to another world”
“I'm a fan of role playing games the Elder Scroll series like Skyrim or even Daggerfall it just takes you to another world”— Lex Fridman
Also referenced (named, not recommended)
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Snow Crash
Neal Stephenson
“the term comes from Neil Stevenson's book Snow Crash which many of us had read back in the 90s it was one of those kind of formative books”— John Carmack
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Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice
Foley and van Dam (inferred)
“I had learned this from one of my Graphics Bible at the time a book called Foley van Dam”— John Carmack
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Masters of Doom
David Kushner (inferred)
“some other people just say felt that Masters of Doom portrayed played things up in a way that I shouldn't be too happy with”— John Carmack
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Minecraft
Mojang (inferred)
“Minecraft is an amazing case study in so many things where what's been able to be done with that is really enlightening”— John Carmack
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Fortnite
Epic Games (inferred)
“modern things that are on completely different order of magnitude like Minecraft and Fortnite that have 100 million plus users”— John Carmack
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Roblox
Roblox Corporation (inferred)
“right now Roblox is basically a game construction kit aimed at kids and that was a capability first play and it's achieving scale”— John Carmack
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Call of Duty
Activision (inferred)
“when Activision demonstrated that you could make Call of Duty every year and not only is it not bad people kind of love it”— John Carmack
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Duke Nukem 3D
3D Realms (inferred)
“Ken Silverman and his build engine which was used for Duke Nukem 3D and some of the other games for 3D Realms”— John Carmack
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Wizardry
Sir-Tech (inferred)
“there was one famous program called Wizardry it was like one of the great early role playing games that was written in Pascal”— John Carmack
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