id Software
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id Software is a game developer founded on February 1, 1991 based in Mesquite, Texas by four members of the computer company Softdisk, 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.
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History
The company founders originally formed a group naming itself "Ideas From the Deep" while working for Softdisk. According to the book Masters of Doom, 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.[1]
The company was officially formed to become independent from Softdisk and worked with Apogee Software, then Activision, before finally being bought by ZeniMax.
Although they were originally publishing games in other genres (such as 2D platformers with the Commander Keen series), id Software was heavily involved in the creation of the first-person shooter genre. Their earliest effort in 3D date back to the Softdisk era, with titles such as Hovertank 3D and Catacomb 3-D. The first 3D game they made as an independent studio, Wolfenstein 3D, is often considered as one of the first FPS. Doom popularized the genre and PC gaming in general as well as pioneered online multiplayer. Quake was the first shooter to have a client-server architecture for multiplayer.
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As developers
As publishers
Original employees
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References
- ↑ "id Software: Business." (archived 🏛). Retrieved 10 February 2016.
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