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John Carmack on mutable variables

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498 points azhenley | 2 comments | 31 Oct 25 02:34 UTC | HN request time: 0.465s | source
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lopatin ◴[31 Oct 25 03:07 UTC] No.45767913[source]▶
How fast this got to the top, you would think John Carmack just invented nuclear fusion.
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bmitc ◴[31 Oct 25 13:42 UTC] No.45771892[source]▶
People worship this guy, but other than being a good C++ graphics programmer, it isn't clear what he's actually done.
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rvba ◴[31 Oct 25 16:40 UTC] No.45773991[source]▶
Doom which was countless fun for people up to this day who make mods? (E.g. the great Myhouse.wad that was perhaps FPS of the year... 2023)

Quake, which was a good game, but arguably a better engine that lead to things like Half-Life 1?

Other games?

Shared the code to Doom and Quake?

I guess you dont understand how big of a game Doom was. The first episode holds suprisngly well up to this day, even after hundreds of doom-clones as they used to call FPS games.

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bmitc ◴[31 Oct 25 17:45 UTC] No.45774670[source]▶
But he didn't design the Doom game. He designed its graphics engine.
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zenlot ◴[31 Oct 25 20:19 UTC] No.45776250[source]▶
You understand how games work, do you? Please tell me you do. Else, what kind of argument is it?
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1. tredre3 ◴[31 Oct 25 20:53 UTC] No.45776570[source]▶
The engine enables people with actual creativity to realize their vision. I believe Carmack was part of that creative process, but the condescending tone of your comment really isn't appropriate because in most games the engine is just a means to an end (nobody sane idolizes games because they're using unreal underneath, for example)..
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2. zenlot ◴[01 Nov 25 07:30 UTC] No.45779853[source]▶
Just decided to talk shit on Friday? What you believe doesn't matter. Facts matter, and your knowledge of facts are far away from truth.