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id Software
id Software LLC 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.
id Software made important technological developments in video game technologies for the PC (running MS-DOS and Windows), including work done for the Wolfenstein, Doom, and Quake franchises. id's work was particularly important in 3D computer graphics technology and in game engines that are used throughout the video game industry. The company was involved in the creation of the first-person shooter (FPS) genre: Wolfenstein 3D is often considered to be the first true FPS; Doom is a game that popularized the genre and PC gaming in general; and Quake was id's first true 3D FPS.
On June 24, 2009, ZeniMax Media acquired the company. In 2015, they opened a second studio in Frankfurt, Germany.
Ana Isabel Jimenez Sanchez - 28.09.2021 - 23:15
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John Romero
Alfonso John Romero is an American director, designer, programmer, and developer in the video game industry. He is best known as a co-founder of id Software and designer for many of their games, including Wolfenstein 3D, Dangerous Dave, Hexen, Doom, Doom II and Quake. His game designs and development tools, along with new programming techniques created and implemented by id Software's lead programmer John D. Carmack, led to a mass popularization of the first-person shooter, or FPS, in the 1990s. He is credited with coining the FPS multiplayer term "deathmatch".
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Ana Isabel Jimenez Sanchez - 28.09.2021 - 23:21
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Adrian Carmack
Adrian Carmack is one of the four founders of id Software, which are Tom Hall, John Romero and John Carmack. He was one of those with the most shares in id Software until he left the company, where he worked as a graphic artist since its creation. Adrian Carmack left id Software in 2005.
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Ana Isabel Jimenez Sanchez - 28.09.2021 - 23:26
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Tom Hall
Tom Hall is an American game designer best known for his work with id Software on titles such as Doom and Commander Keen. He attended the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he earned a B.S. in Computer Science.
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Ana Isabel Jimenez Sanchez - 28.09.2021 - 23:31
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Peter Molyneux
Peter Molyneux is a videogame designer and programmer, responsible for popular "god simulation games" such as Dungeon Keeper, Populous and Black & White, among others. He is also responsible for "business" strategy games like Theme Park, Theme Hospital, The Movies, and role-playing games like the Fable series.
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Ana Isabel Jimenez Sanchez - 29.09.2021 - 00:05
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Danny Elfman
Daniel Robert "Danny" Elfman is an American composer, musician, singer-songwriter and record producer. He is best known for writing music for the films of director Tim Burton and Sam Raimi, debuting in 1985 as a soundtrack composer with his film Pee-Wee's Great Adventure and maintaining an extensive collaboration with Burton to this day; He also composed the soundtrack for the original Spider-Man trilogy, directed by Sam Raimi, composed of Spider-Man, Spider-Man 2 and Spider-Man 3. In addition, he is known for being the leader of the retired American group Oingo Boingo and for creating the famous theme for the animated television series The Simpsons which, among many other works, have earned him great prestige throughout his eclectic musical career.
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Ana Isabel Jimenez Sanchez - 29.09.2021 - 00:10
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Lionhead Studios
Lionhead Studios was a UK-based game development company led by industry veteran Peter Molyneux. It was founded on August 1, 1996 and acquired by Microsoft Game Studios in April 2006. Lionhead began as an offshoot of the Bullfrog company, which was also founded by Molyneux. The idea for the company name came from the name of Mark Healy's hamster, who died not long after it was founded. Lionhead's first game was Black & White, a god simulation game with components of artificial intelligence, strategy, and beat 'em up games that was distributed by Electronic Arts in 2001. Black & White was followed by an expansion called Black & White: Creature. Isle. Around this time, Lionhead released the popular game Fable, from its satellite company Big Blue Box. In 2005, Lionhead released The Movies and Black & White 2. On April 6, 2006, it was announced that Lionhead Studios would be acquired by Microsoft to expand its catalog of Xbox 360 games.
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Ana Isabel Jimenez Sanchez - 29.09.2021 - 00:13
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Russel Shaw
Russell Shaw is a BAFTA nominated British composer and sound designer. He is known for his work in many video games, particularly those designed by Peter Molyneux.
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Ana Isabel Jimenez Sanchez - 29.09.2021 - 00:19
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James Jerome Gibson
James Jerome Gibson, was born on 27 January in 1904, McConnelsville, Ohio, U.S. James J. Gibson was an american psychologist whose theories of visual perception were influential among some schools of psyhology and philosophy in the late 20th century.
After receiving a Ph.D. in psychology at Princetone University in 1928, Gibson joined the faculty of Smith College. He married Eleanor J. Gibson —who would become a prominent psychologist in her own right—in 1932. During World War II he served in the Army Air Forces (1942–46), where he did research on visual aircraft identification and on increasing the effectiveness of training films, among other topics. After the war he returned to Smith College before moving to Cornell University in 1949. He retired in 1972.
Alisa Nikolaevna Ammosova - 29.09.2021 - 01:06
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Stephen Coleman
Stephen Coleman is Professor of Political communication at the University of Leeds. He was born in 1957. He is the author or editor of ten books and over a hundred articles on politics and communication. He is an advocate of direct representation via the Internet. He has been described as a "leading commentator" on online democracy. He has led independent evaluations of the UK televised election debates since 2010.
Career summary includes:
- New York University, Lecturer in Politics, London campus (1984-1994)/
- Hansard Society, Director of Research (1995-2002)
- London School of Economics, Lecturer in Media (1997-2002)
- Oxford Internet Institute, Visiting Professor in E-Democracy (2002-2006)
- University of Leeds, Professor of Political Communication (2006–present).
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Alisa Nikolaevna Ammosova - 29.09.2021 - 01:56
