About the creator

Career

Programmer, Director, Producer, Game designer

Born

21 August 1970

Place of birth

Shawnee Mission

Known games

8

John Carmack is an American programmer and technology executive who co-founded id Software and led its engine development during the company's formative years. He left id to become chief technology officer at Oculus, stepped away from Meta in 2022 and founded Keen Technologies to pursue artificial-general-intelligence research.