alphalist.CTO Podcast - For CTOs and Technical Leaders
#26 - John Romero // CEO Romero Games
20 May 2021
This Podcast episode is DOOMed 🔥🌋😈🧟🕯👿☠👹🦹 I had the chance to talk to John Romero, the inventor of DOOM, Wolfenstein and Commander Keen and founder of id Software about * Developing games in the early 90s and how they developed DOOM in a crazy small team * Developing games in 2021 and how it’s still possible to develop games with only a single person team * The crazy amounts of money they made with DOOM 🤑💶🤑 * The crazy amounts of energy drinks they consumed * Why not he would not start developing a game engine again Thanks a lot John! Was really fun talking to you.
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