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Adrian Carmack

1969 - Today

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Adrian Carmack (born May 5, 1969) is an American video game artist and one of four co-founders of id Software, along with Tom Hall, John Romero, and John Carmack (no relation). The founders met while working at Softdisk's Gamer's Edge division and started id in 1991. Adrian Carmack's primary role at the company was as an artist, including work on Commander Keen, Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, Hexen: Beyond Heretic, Quake, Quake II and Quake III Arena. He is credited as the creator of Doom's grotesque, gory art style as well as the term "gibs". Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Adrian Carmack is the 72nd most popular game designer. (up from 5,081st in 2019)

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Among game designers, Adrian Carmack ranks 72 out of 77. Before him are Tom Hall, Chris Sawyer, Michael Morhaime, American McGee, Toby Gard, and Chris Metzen. After him are Jonathan Blow, Rob Pardo, Minh Le, Bruce Straley, and Matt Harding.

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Among people born in 1969, Adrian Carmack ranks 981. Before him are Ryo Adachi, Yuji Okuma, Vadim Khamuttskikh, Erika Alexander, Jonathan LaPaglia, and Lü Lin. After him are Juan de Dios Ramírez, Mikio Manaka, Rubén Ruiz Díaz, Anthuan Maybank, Valentin Kononen, and Katsumi Suzuki.

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