TITLE
Q&A: Doom’s Creator Looks Back on 20 Years of Demonic Mayhem
AUTHOR
Chris Kohler
PUBLICATION
Wired
YEAR
2013
ARTICLE TYPE
Interview
FROM THE ARTICLE
At the stroke of midnight on December 10, 1993, an executive at id Software uploaded a file to an FTP site on the University of Washington’s network. The filename was doom1_0.zip. Thus did one of the great revolutions in the world of gaming begin—not with a spectacular launch party and a multimillion-dollar ad campaign, but with a 2MB file transfer.[…]
To commemorate the 20th anniversary of his most momentous game release, WIRED spoke with [John] Carmack about the creation of Doom, the game development world in 1993, and his thoughts on the future of the series.
COMPANIES MENTIONED
id Software
GAMES MENTIONED
Doom (1993)
PEOPLE MENTIONED
John Carmack