GAME DESIGNER

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 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Adrian Carmack is the 80th most popular game designer (down from 72nd in 2024). (up from 5,081st in 2019)

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Among GAME DESIGNERS

Among game designers, Adrian Carmack ranks 80 out of 77. Before him are Michael Morhaime, Chris Avellone, American McGee, Toby Gard, Chris Metzen, and Kensuke Tanabe. After him are Jonathan Blow, Cory Barlog, Rob Pardo, Jane Jensen, Minh Le, and Jeff Minter.

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Among people born in 1969, Adrian Carmack ranks 1,139. Before him are Hussain Ghuloum, Marco Kurz, Jean-Michel Ferri, Lü Lin, Paolo Milanoli, and Huang Hua. After him are Juan de Dios Ramírez, Mikio Manaka, Rubén Ruiz Díaz, Anthuan Maybank, Elena Gorolová, and David Strickland.

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