QuakeCon 2011 Keynote

r_fletch_r

Carmack = Awesome.
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Quakecon Highlights from toms hardware

There is no plan or team in place for a future Quake title.
The id Tech 4 engine (Doom 3, Quake 4, Brink) will be come open source "later this year."

Quake Live is a "business failure" - it loses money for id Software - but they don't plan on shutting it down anytime soon.

Doom 4: Will probably run at 30 Hz for single player, and 60 Hz for MP. Most of the Rage dev team will migrate to Doom 4 once the game ships later this year.

Rage 2 is going to happen after Doom 4, assuming Rage 1 is a success.

Rage will not have dedicated servers, and there will be no Eyefinity support at launch.

id Software currently has no Mac or Linux strategy.

We'll be posting more news as the weekend progresses, and we should have some id Software interviews to post as well in the coming days. Stay tuned!

Ace-Angel

I want to have his babies...

xvampire

I feel like teenage girl screaming to edward cullen now

glynnsmith

I didn't understand most of what he said in the last 40 minutes.

But I listened anyway.

oXYnary

No dedicated servers? Goodbye Id.

leilei

Well, dedicated servers don't really work for a coop game. I wouldn't call it a conclusive shark jumping in RAGE's case...

though since the whole Zenimax/id thing, the linux/mac business has been a back seat though

oXYnary

leilei wrote: »

Well, dedicated servers don't really work for a coop game.

l4d

pior

Really liked the part when he mentions keeping a mistake log to keep track of his own error patterns. Extremely inspirational.

R3D

Really inspiring stuff!

Bal

Such an honest guy, always great to hear him rant. I'm looking more forward to Rage than I was a few months back, should be a fun shooter.

Ganemi wrote: »

What about mf'ing ET:QW and Prey, the most interesting of all of them? *giant sigh*

Well the Prey stuff isn't really theirs to give away really, and the base is the Doom3 engine anyways.
And from what I understand ET:QW is some mix of ID Tech 4 with some early mega texture stuff from ID Tech 5, so it's not so surprising that he won't release it so early, when Rage isn't even out yet.

thatanimator

glynnsmith wrote: »

I didn't understand most of what he said in the last 40 minutes.

But I listened anyway.

same,
can't get enough of his voice in my brain!!

leilei

I understood. It was mostly :

- theories of megatexture and compromises to get it going on consoles
- caching a megatexture
- his mic has a bug
- The idea of exploiting Intel's onboard for more direct memory access to memory for performance
- a proposal to return to PC-side engine experiments in updates, in relation to the old unsupported updates such as GLQuake from back in the day for being an experimental playground (GLQuake had introduced rudimentary mirrors, shadows and translucent water, BTW)
- Video card drivers being evil (acknowledging the GLQuake extension string buffer crash workaround)
- Bringing up the importance of a readable foundation in code to be warningless, then mentioning lines of Quake code still in modern games (Anything Source engine pretty much technically)
- Being old, but unsentimental about his past code
- Doom3 source coming after Prey 2 (though, Q3's source was released while the engine was still being licensed i.e. THE COD SERIES)
- The encouragement of other companies to open their sources and saying how good it was for them

eld

It's like a bad day suddenly turned good from listening to Carmack!

r_fletch_r

I get most of what he says at some basic level, its the stuff i dont get which is quite often the interesting stuff. Allways something new and interesting.

vargatom

He even makes a small joke about Euclidean (something like he should release a demo with infinite details) but noone in the audience seemed to get it...


What's also interesting is that the entire talk seems to be a totally continuous train of thought, and yet he still doesn't seem to unintentionally wonder off or skip stuff he wanted to talk about.

leslievdb

The way he can keep things interesting while going into some serious technical details is just amazing. That's a man who loves what he does and shares what he knows.
tnx for sharing

d1ver

Nice watch. Damn I owe this guy so much!

pior

I just realized that John Carmack gives me Carl Sagan shivers. Good stuff

Like Varg said, I really enjoy the train of thought nature of it. On top of that it's really nice to see that he genuinely thinks about what he is going to say before opening his mouth (eyes looking up). It seems like such an obvious thing but it is so refreshing compared to all the "PR driven" speeches and announcements we are always served on TV, online, and so on. Carmack should give a TED talk!

I really cannot wait to see what will come out of his content creation optimisation experimentations. I kinda hope he'd start working on a Zbrush/Mud killer ....

Mike_Carlyle

oXYnary wrote: »

No dedicated servers? Goodbye Id.

@oXYnary

At the 20 years of id panel the next day, they ( carmack, willits, cloud and hollenshead ) went on to say they plan to continue to do "multiplayer" correct and that there would be dedicated servers with id games.

There was lots of applause...