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The BFG ("Big Fucking Gun") [1] is a fictional weapon found in many video games, mostly in id Software-developed series' such as Doom and Quake.. The abbreviation BFG stands for "Big Fucking Gun" as described in Tom Hall's original Doom design document and in the user manual of Doom II: Hell on Earth.
TeamTNT developed in late 1994 and early 1995 from the highly active doom-editing mailing list. [3] [4] TeamTNT originally formed as a two-group entity: the Alpha group whose concerns centered primarily on level design and mod work employing pre-existing Doom II resources as developed by the original Id Software team, and the Beta group who would be focused more closely on partial and total ...
John D. Carmack II [1] (born August 21, [a] 1970) [1] is an American computer programmer and video game developer.He co-founded the video game company id Software and was the lead programmer of its 1990s games Commander Keen, Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, Quake, and their sequels.
id Software LLC (/ ɪ d /) is an American video game developer based in Richardson, Texas.It was founded on February 1, 1991, by four members of the computer company Softdisk: programmers John Carmack and John Romero, game designer Tom Hall, and artist Adrian Carmack.
He created ports of both games to IRIX, AIX, Solaris and Linux, and helped program the Atari Jaguar ports of Doom and Wolfenstein 3D. [3] He also considers himself to have been the "spackle coder" on Doom, for adding things such as the status bar, sound library integration, the automap, level transitions, cheat codes, and the network chat ...
Tom Hall (born September 2, 1964) is an American game designer best known for his work with id Software on titles such as Doom, Wolfenstein 3D and Commander Keen.He has also been the co-founder of Ion Storm, together with his friend and colleague John Romero.
Doom, a first-person shooter game by id Software, was released in December 1993 and is considered one of the most significant and influential video games in history. [1] [2] [3] Development began in November 1992, with programmers John Carmack and John Romero, artists Adrian Carmack and Kevin Cloud, and designer Tom Hall.
Adrian Carmack's primary role at the company was as an artist, including work on Commander Keen, Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, Hexen: Beyond Heretic, Quake, Quake II and Quake III Arena. [2] He is credited as the creator of Doom's grotesque, gory art style [1] as well as the term "gibs". [3] He was a 41% owner of ID until he left the company in 2005.