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Event praises "monumental influence".

The GDC Awards folk have announced that John Carmack will receive their Lifetime Achievement Award on 11th March.

"It's no exaggeration to say that John Carmack and id Software have had a monumental influence on all modern 3D games, but especially the first-person shooter genre," said GDC event director Meggan Scavio.

"John is one of the key figures in the history of videogames, and we're delighted to be giving him the Lifetime Achievement award this year."

Previous winners include Shigeru Miyamoto and Will Wright, who will present Carmack with the award during the ceremony.

Earlier this year the GDC organisers announced that Gabe Newell will receive its Pioneer Award.

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LHH #1 2 years ago

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Yay! Got to give it John Carmack and his freakish programming skills. We wouldn't have Doom or Quake and in that respect, Unreal and the various engines since then (source engine etc)
There's a family tree pic somewhere on the web that kind of shows the influence of id's engines over the years.

Edited by 1 at 23/02/10 @ 08:45
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frankfurter209 #2 2 years ago

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Hard to argue with this one, Carmack's a straight-up genius.
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FooAtari #3 2 years ago

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Yeah he deserves it. Sadly iD don't seem to be quite the developer they once were but Carmack is one clever dude and definitely deserves the recognition for his achievements.
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wellzy4eva #4 2 years ago

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Good to hear that John Carmack got this and not a tool like Peter Molyneux
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JahB #5 2 years ago

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well deserved, congratz Mr. Carmack
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Murton #6 2 years ago

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Can't argue, even though Caramac makes a lot of bold claims sometimes he does deliver on most of them.

Wellzxy: Molyneux will get it eventually, that's the thing about lifetime achievement awards, you don't have to be good just there for a long time.
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the_mtfr #7 2 years ago

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Don't forget Ken Silverman... he was freakin' 16 when he made the Build engine for 3D Realms...
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Syrette #8 2 years ago

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Jesus wept, why bring Molyneux into it?
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Gurgeh #9 2 years ago

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@LHH

I think you mean this:

[link url=http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fil e:Quake_-_family_tree_2_Simplified.svg
]http://co mmons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Q...[/link]

but TBH that picture only tells part of the story (for example Counterstrike isn't there)
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wellzy4eva #10 2 years ago

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@foreverafternothing - I read the comment 'Event praises "monumental influence".', it reminded me of a Molyenux promo.
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