John Romero and John Carmack are still buds and they're going to prove it by teaming up for a livestream celebrating Doom's 30th anniversary
December 10 will be the 30th anniversary of the groundbreaking FPS Doom, and to mark the big day two of the driving forces behind the game, John Carmack and John Romero, will be taking part in a livestreamed discussion moderated by videogame historian David Craddock about one of the most influential videogames of all time.
The bare bones of id Software's history are well known: A handful of ambitious guys working at a software company decide to strike out on their own, and through a combination of innovative technology, bold design, and the energy and drive of youth, create a game called Doom that shakes the world of PC gaming to its core. Fame and fortune follow, and over time it all slowly slips apart as the founders move on to other things amidst rumors of recriminations and resentment.
It's all very rock 'n' roll, which is appropriate given that Carmack and Romero are sometimes described as the game industry's Lennon and McCartney. But it's also apparently off base. In his recent autobiography Doom Guy: Life in First Person, Romero said he and Carmack were friends, and have remained so in the years since they went their separate ways.
From the book:
Much has been written about our working relationship and our eventual breakup. It’s written as if we were fifty-year-old Stanford MBAs who knew everything about business and not overworked, constantly crunching kids in our twenties with the whole world staring at us as we tried to do the best we could while creating a tech and a design that the world had never before seen. It’s written in polarizing terms, “animosity” being a favorite, with one of us pitted against the other because that just makes for a better story. The truth is that Carmack and I were friends, and we
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