Gamasutra Interview with John Carmack : Othor Games

» Mon Aug 22, 2011 1:37 am

Nice, big interview with John Carmack which is Rage focused.

Interesting that he states one of the biggest mistakes he made this generation was saying consoles are as powerful as PCs five years back. I guess they were back then. He also says that even though PCs can be many times more powerful than the consoles, due to inefficiencies with graphics drivers, operating systems and other, extra layers of abstraction, it has been most difficult to hold 60FPS on the PC.

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/6461/carmack_on_rage.php

» Sun Aug 21, 2011 7:12 pm

Thanks for the link!

I especially liked this:

You're still very hands-on with all this stuff.

JC: If anything, since the ZeniMax acquisition, it's been great. I don't even have to pretend to be an executive anymore. I don't have to go to board meetings. I don't have to do anything! I can just sit in my office and work.

My core is defined as being an engineer. I take resources and a goal, and I try and put them to the best use to get us there. That's what I do. I don't want to be doing anything else.

He just likes to work and fiddle with stuff.

Go through thousands of lines of code and check stuff, and you know that if JC is at the helm of things, that's about as good as it can get.

» Sun Aug 21, 2011 6:34 pm

Some of it sounds awfully familiar (anolysis tools?), but you can never hear too much from John Carmack.