Id Software

id Software is a game developer founded on February 1, 1991 based in Mesquite, Texas by four members of the computer company, programmers John Carmack and John Romero, game designer Tom Hall, and artist Adrian Carmack. They are the authors of Doom and Doom II, as well as numerous other well-known titles such as the Quake series of games, Wolfenstein 3D, and Commander Keen.

The company drastically changed its members through the years, including the original founders. On June 24, 2009, it was announced that id Software had been acquired by ZeniMax Media, owner of Bethesda Softworks.

Main frachises

 * Wolfenstein series
 * Doom series
 * Quake series
 * Quake series

Original emplooyes

 * Adrian Carmack
 * John Carmack
 * Kevin Cloud
 * Shawn C. Green
 * Dave D. Taylor
 * Tom Hall
 * Donna Jackson
 * American McGee
 * Sandy Petersen
 * Bobby Prince
 * John Romero
 * Jay Wilbur
 * Tim Willits

Trivia

 * The company was heavily involved in the creation of the first-person shooter genre. Wolfenstein 3D is often considered as one of the first FPS, Doom was a game that popularized the genre and PC gaming in general, and Quake is the first shooter to have online multiplayer, which is a widespread feature used in today's games of the same genre.


 * According to the book Masters of Doom, the group identified itself as "Ideas from the Deep" in the early days of Softdisk but that, in the end, the name 'id' came from the phrase "in demand". Later on, it's officially described by the company as "the primal section of the human psyche" which in Freudian psychology is responsible for instinctual and primitive impulses.