QuakeCon 2012 - John Carmack Keynote

[@ColinZeal01]

"I´m sick so my voice may give out" - goes on talking for 3,5 hours. King.

[@rrohitamalan]

lol

[@grigmaster9264]

this is a dude who doesn't dislikes to listen to himself , but indeed thats ordinary fact knowing that much about so many things :D

[@jarg7]

or liar

[@wasnotnecessary8305]

@@jarg7 gigachad

[@jimmybailey7198]

When you're a programmer AND an orator hahaha

[@Daracus]

"I want to apologize to all of you here especially is how badly we did on the PC space...." Many in this industry seem to defend poor choices with a bitter stubbornness, however you sir did the responsible thing and admitted your faults. Thank you Carmack.

[@icebough4191]

Daracus just wait 7 years and look at what Bethesda is doing now😂

[@cheesemccheese5780]

@@icebough4191 lol. Yeah.

[@fullauto86]

Yeah legendary move in game marketing and connection with community. He’s a straight up dude ya gotta love him.

[@daimyo2]

if John Carmack writes a book itll be 10000000000000 pages long

[@Sp1derFingers]

+daimyo2 I would read every page

[@daimyo2]

Sp1derFingers agreed. Would surely be worth it :D

[@rodri_gl]

i wish he wrote a computer graphics and physics book. but i guess we'll have to do with his legacy of code

[@iamlordstarbuilder5595]

Base 10 or base 2?

[@HelderP1337]

This guy is my life's inspiration and one of the main reasons I work in this hard but beautiful industry!

[@coldscooter]

11 years later, how did it work out?

[@HelderP1337]

@@coldscooter So far, so good! I'm scratching 40 and life sure is testing me now, both personally and professionally, but deffo can't complain. Back in 2014 I was part of a small incubation team, the game went on to turn into a big franchise, called Overwatch. Now, I'm still employed in the games industry (not at Blizzard anymore though) and nearly done with my indie game, called Europa. Out in about a month on Steam and Switch after more than 6 years working on it part-time, please look it up!

[@onimotoko]

John is so honest. He really is a gaming hero.

[@BornRuffian1]

Carmack reminds me of my favorite teachers. He's passionate about what he does, and it shows, and it makes listening to him soooo much easier.

[@SageManeja]

holy shit he doesnt stop seriously how does he not get tired

[@themodfather9382]

Genetic rarity.

[@newsmansuper2925]

so somwhere at the neurone receptor level, some of hist synapse gates are bulit a little diffrent that gives it a better gain than average so it seems normal, or an enzyme level if going just a bit fater so you dont get the build up of byproducts you don't need and keep regen the one you do need.

[@codenocode]

@@themodfather9382 you mean "built different"?

[@tomhaswell6283]

He just walks up that stage and talks about interesting stuff for 3 1/2 hours straight. He's so cool.

[@elcapitan6126]

indeed something we can all aspire to do. it's energising and motivating

[@thatlonzoguy]

John "on there" Carmack, the man, the myth, the legend. Joking aside, this man truly is a visionary and pioneer. I am thankful for all he has done for gaming

[@staseband]

He somehow manages to always be talking about something super interesting and relevant yet you have no idea how he got to that particular point lol

[@jollyneuron]

Or what he's actually talking about, for that matter. Yet he makes me feel like i understand it somehow. If I had to reproduce any last 3 sentences at any point in time i would completely blank out haha.

[@ESPIRITUS_A]

Yeah like, people who have quantum-computing levels of brainpower rarely have good communication skills (or context to be people-friendly), but here you go

[@JackWse]

Yeah I was thinking about that around the 20-minute mark, he's changed so many topics.. he allows time to rant and tangent, but he's good at it, he's so good at it he always comes back to a final point.. But he allows himself to space to get there in a way that I am jealous. Also I've not had any trouble following this at all.. I've had to go back a few times when I missed a relevant number or something about what he was talking about.. But like.. I've been listening to this for 2 and 1/2 hours at this point and it's just flowed exceptionally.. I've seen him do the 5-hour interview with like lex, but holy shit... I didn't realize you could do 3 and 1/2 hours by himself... This is like what my inner thoughts sound like except from somebody that is capable, and influential and stuff.

[@AstralFrost]

This is fascinating. And he is a skilled speaker to be able to speak nonstop for 3 hours 36 minutes. I love listening to him talk about these various technical subjects.

[@mitsuracer87]

Astral Frost thought this was a troll post, then I fast forwarded the video to the end and yep..he's still talking

[@dagrimmreepa]

I grew up with Wolf 3D, Doom and Quake. Literally. Those games were all I played from 6-12 years old, then I started branching off... I knew every single secret in Quake, Doom and Doom 2, and I didn't read them anywhere, it was only through repetitive play and trial and error. This man is the greatest gift to gaming. Gaming would not be where it's at today without him. I can listen to this man talk non stop, forever.

[@CosimoGames]

listening to John Carmack talk keeps me going. A man doing what he loves doing. A Honest man. My Inspiration. My Hero.

[@VersionBest]

Love listening to him talk. Makes me feel smarter for some reason.

[@TileWonder]

I don't think you guys know how happy I was when I saw that instead of the regular 1-1 and a half hour keynote, that it's actually 3 and half hours! Tears of joy! I love listening to this man! :,)

[@masterchief258]

I felt bad walking out a little bit into the questions, but I had to drive back to North Dallas. I was towards the front and I was surprised each time I turned around and saw how many had left before he started taking questions.

[@808GT]

Talking about 120hz displays in VR 10 years ago. This man is lightyears ahead of his tech.

[@juanmilanese]

This was the most amazing keynote i've seen in my life. A real eye opener. VR tech seems like a real interesting road for things to go. Carmack is still the man.

[@eldiegoasecas]

I've only recently (weeks) listened to a speech by him and now i can't stop. In most cases he's talking about things i have absolutely no knowledge about but he makes it approachable and understandable. I'm a big fan of this man.

[@chrll]

At 27:49, he said about the BFG mounted flashlight: "We had a bunch of people come out and say "No, you are destroying the ambience of the original game", and there is something to that, to the sort of, you know, masochistic sense of running through the game like that. But the game is a lot more fun when you can see and appreciate what's in there."

[@thecprogrammer]

Still watching carmack in 2023 and I love it

[@ironbellystudios]

This man is the greatest geek alive. The breadth of his hobbies and knowledge are unbelievable.

[@kespec]

i can listen this guy forever

[@TheCollos1]

I love how Carmack is so passionate about what he does. Keep on doing what you do man

[@DomeCandyGames]

He's so honest and candid. He doesn't talk like he's trying to sell you something and yet, as soon as his prototype goes to production I want one.

[@com315]

Carmack is a legend because he is a programmer really can talk, more than create legendary games .

[@ghost32839]

hes the only person I can listen to for hours without getting bored or falling asleep on there

[@redboycaptures]

..."on there" i see what you did there mate

[@lgolem09l]

all the time through. He does make one 10 second pause to look at this iPad for more topics. He is standing for the first 90 minutes, and never takes one sip of water.

[@magickfantasy]

At 3:03:38 he describes the technique used 8 years later in Microsoft Flight Simulator. Cool stuff.

[@gomersimpson777ram]

Hmm

[@BringYourBallsCanada]

2023: John Carmack creates Union Aerospace Corporation 2145: Union Aerospace Corporation creates a portal to hell

[@diegopaper1]

to hell's gate

[@MixologistMilo]

BringYourBallsCanada SKYNET!!

[@HonsHon]

@@MixologistMilo The demons would make mince meat of skynet.

[@alexczrs]

Romero waiting on the icon

[@G_Sergeant]

We're getting close to the year of UAC foundation

[@olau82]

Great talk! Thanks for posting! I love how people in the audience ask a cautious question and Carmack delivers a great set of interesting thoughts on the spot. :)

[@iLikeTheUDK]

@zilkoify Yup, and that's pretty ironic, too - The whole advantage of the Commander Keen engine was that it allowed something that was previously exclusive to consoles to run on PCs. And now, 22 years later, he's reversing the process.

[@megamancards]

I'm a programmer and I wish I had a boss like this guy. He really understands the world of the coder - something that management so often lacks.

[@kingluke2]

Fascinating stuff! Really appreciate his engineer's honesty and clearheadedness.

[@BaconSenpai]

Sick and still manages to talk for 3.5 hours non stop, what a machine

[@HelderP1337]

at 3:04:55 wow, it actually looks like the room is half empty? Man I would get in like hours to have the honor to hear Carmack for 3 hours.

[@icebough4191]

Helder Pinto I know right?!

[@CharlesVanNoland]

@2:35:26 "The magic that runs the web is scary, scary stuff." - John Carmack, QuakeCon 2012

[@RosszCsillag]

Carmack drinking game: Drink whenever he says "on there" or some conjugation thereof.

[@mario64amazing]

i remember watching this live and we had a count of all the times he said "on there" we counted up to 300

[@andrejkiss]

We might wind up being drunk.

[@TheKingoftheriff]

He probably struggles with english because C++ is his native language.

[@Retrovibes]

This guy is a living legend in the gaming industry. Only ignorant fools that never heard of him would expect a very basic, dumbed down and Apple-like keynote from him.

[@Fuchsia_tude]

Surprising to see only a few dozen people in the audience, at least by the Q&A session at the end.

[@ChocoRythme]

Thank you so much for posting this. I respect this man so much, I literally just watched his mouth move for hours and hung on to every word.

[@chrisf69uk]

Fantastic vid, I loved every minute of this. Carmack has an amazing mind, it's such a kick to hear what he's thinking about.

[@GAment_11]

I skipped an hour at a time.........and he's still sitting in the same chair. Like the pic never changed. This place is great!

[@nem81]

Thanks for this. The Keynote and the Finals are what i always try to watch from Quakecon.

[@Banano79]

John Carmack is on there

[@glinkot]

What a wide ranging and insightful session. Brilliant!

[@Aetherbyte]

This dude is the reason I even program games. He's legendary. Watching this video is the best 3.5 hours I've spent in a long time.

[@gracefool]

3:00:35 Start of Q&A 3:00:55 The future of megatextures and cloud gaming 3:04:40 Industry support for low-latency products 3:06:34 Non-polygonal geometry 3:09:25 Development process / agile 3:12:12 Multiple OS support, virtualization & sandboxing 3:17:47 Walking in VR 3:19:56 Augmented Reality 3:23:10 Graphics effects for VR headsets 3:26:42 Direct neural stimulation 3:29:14 Bandwidth cost 3:32:21 Photorealism

[@banguseater]

3:00:35 Start of Q&A 3:00:55 The future of megatextures and cloud gaming 3:04:40 Industry support for low-latency products 3:06:34 Non-polygonal geometry 3:09:25 Development process / agile 3:12:12 Multiple OS support, virtualization & sandboxing 3:17:47 Walking in VR 3:19:56 Augmented Reality 3:23:10 Graphics effects for VR headsets 3:26:42 Direct neural stimulation 3:29:14 Bandwidth cost 3:32:21 Photorealism sorry your old comment was somehow broken

[@gracefool]

@@banguseater Thanks!

[@gracefool]

@@banguseater Looks like I had to split my comment in three because it was too long, so there's another with the same problem (I can't see the first). I think just because they didn't create automatic links. It won't let me edit it either.

[@EfimencoVladimir85]

Oh! best VOD from quakecon! I waiting a long time this video. Carmac Winner!

[@PeterLawrenceYT]

Watched this all the way though and enjoyed every minute.

[@geodescent]

When he stops talking, the silence is deafening

[@aintneb]

All of Quake games are epic and fun!

[@raket94]

I hope he never stops doing these

[@earlgrey11]

Its interesting to hear the diverse development topics that John talks about, including 3D programming, cloud computing, network latency, mobile development, drivers, hardware, engineering problems, team management, programming methodologies, operating systems, virtual reality, industry trends etc. I always enjoy watching his speeches.

[@danielduckq]

he can just read me a bedtime story of quake development for me to sleep

[@GuitarNerd79]

Does John Carmack ever watch his own keynotes on there to learn that he says "on there" on there? Still, I can't stop watching this Supernerd.

[@Ra1d3r]

i just love listening to this guy

[@EspireMike]

Such a fascinating time capsule now. Right before he jumped on oculus as CTO. And now Google are pushing very hard for cloud gaming with Stadia. Such a great keynote.

[@jgvtc559]

How do you think itll stack up to xboxs cloud theyre designing

[@EspireMike]

@@jgvtc559 I'm not familiar with Xbox cloud, both Microsoft and Google have the potential to deliver a great service...If you're lucky enough to have fast internet!

[@MsJavaWolf]

And now Stadia is shutting down soon.

[@AnnuMakt]

Very excited to watch this

[@LiamCuthbert]

this legend gives me the motivation to learn game programming.

[@AsbjornOlling]

Fun to hear Carmack obviously being very into VR, *just* before he started working for Oculus. I wonder if it was announced already then

[@Mechanic618]

Fascinating!! Thank you for posting this.

[@vk08]

Been looking for this. thanks.

[@idontreallygetit]

One of my all-time favorite people/heroes. This guy is an absolute genius

[@gracefool]

This is the one gaming-related thing I will watch every year. Summary / bookmarks: 0:00 Rage, Doom 3 BFG Edition, gameplay, and developing more games vs. ambitious graphics pipeline changes 0:30:27 Software development & static analysis (following on from last year's keynote) 0:41:53 Platforms (consoles, mobile, Mac, Linux, open source, integrated graphics, TV boxes) 0:49:43 The future of cloud gaming (streaming) 0:50:38 Display latency & VR headsets (as above) ... (continued next comment)

[@Godl1ked]

anyone can talk for hours about what they're passionate and what they like, none the less, this guy is awesome

[@Offspringfan64]

Look at the video. You have John Carmack on there.

[@sdcs85]

You know, once I start watching this I won't be able to stop, until I've watched the whole, freaking keynote. Damn you, Carmack! ;)

[@danielrose223]

this guy has change my life, and many more i'm sure.

[@BoltRM]

Put in my pledge for the Rift and damned fired-up about the future of VR!! Been waiting over 20 yrs for this. I've worn a few high end head-mounted displays(HMD) over the years and it is just too freakin cool. Add some haptic(vibration/touch sense) devices to the mix and the HMD coming sometime in 2013 and we've got something! oh man....I am fired up. Thx to Palmer Luckey for designing & building the prototype! This is truly a fortuitous collaboration.

[@SpookyFan]

Great talk. Great speaker.

[@ctankep]

Same here -- The livestream was super choppy this morning. However I did manage to catch the last half hour and there was a -lot of great technical discussion re: optics and first principles of head mounted displays. Look forward to it ..

[@michaelpaoneofficial]

I'm still waiting on the new .plan

[@sal4]

Thanks you very much for the upload!

[@uneasyMeat]

John is such an awesome guy! He knows his stuff and doesn't bullshit.

[@SevenDeMagnus]

Cool 3 hours, all John Carmack:-)

[@Flemtality]

He is extremely skilled on there.

[@penna420]

no, it's not a three hour speech, it's THE BEST three hour speech of the year

[@studiopond]

Companies should take a look here on how to apologise for a bad release. Just be plain and clear and honest, no PR fluff or roadmaps or shifting blame.

[@Helmutlozzi]

Great input!!

[@RonnyBrendel]

Aside from all other awesome, I am particularly impressed that he speaks 3,5h continuously about meaningful things.

[@Falcrist]

Don't forget the majority of the Call of Duty series, which runs off of a modified Quake 3 engine called the IW engine. Aside from the direct descendants of the Quake engine, pretty big chunks of John's code are still in use today by almost all developers. It's both a testament to the quality of John's work back in the 90s, and to how interconnected the videogame industry still is.

[@visker81]

watched and listened to the whole thing, and not a second was wasted or even uninteresting

[@VashStarwind]

LOL Carmack talking about making a display device that shines a laser directly into your eyeball, sounds like a mad scientist hahah

[@josephmorales652]

John is in great shape

[@Nik__._.]

John Carmack is such an inspiration for young developers like me :). Im really looking forward to the oncoming projects.

[@Perjoss]

I don't understand anything about programming but I still enjoy listening to him speak.

[@NobleNobbler]

I get the feeling that, each time I hear Carmack speak, that he could be look at a wall or a conference hall of 500 and still have the same enthusiasm

[@DCFHazardRebornChannel]

I agree, money is something that is the basic factor in it all and I too get annoyed when companies take that path. Lets not kid ourselves, id did the same thing with rage and they admitted it, but I hope (and that's what it looks like from videos like this) that Carmack (who doesnt control the direction of id as much as how it advances) honestly seems to love what he is doing and works hard at it :) Thank you for understanding that I wasnt trying to change your mind. Was nice chatting with u ;)

[@theholk]

There are a lot of adults that don't have the bandwith to process the amazing flow of information he puts out. Imho you can actually really see how he actually struggles with compressing his multi-faceted world into a linear string aswell :P

[@TechGamesAU]

Carmack is a national treasure.

[@BDtetra]

this was amazingly interesting to watch

[@Rampager10]

@jasondesante I agree! Thanks QuakeCon guys for uploading this, John is amazing.

[@pierukallukka]

Much love to this legend!

[@AesculapiusPiranha]

Three and a half + hours talking nonstop while sick and damn near everything he says is worth hearing. That is something else.

[@Uelogy22]

Man, John should host an online streaming channel keynote - man he would hold an audience 10x the size of that convention centre!

[@elcapitan6126]

thumbnail is carmack channeling sideous

[@10100rsn]

I had the same opinion on UMA about that time of year and nobody I knew shared my views... I wish I had seen this sooner.

[@MrMadmax75th]

I forgot to add I am so grateful to Id for developing doom 3 I cannot tell you how many hours of enjoyment and pure fun that game brought me. That was the best single player game I have ever played ! Great speech thanks for everything Id .

[@cinderweasel]

even though I only understood 0.1% of what he said he is amazing! he looks genuinely in love with what he does so that makes the 3 and a half hours just flow by for him. it doesnt even look like he uses any kind of paper to read from or a teleprompter, thats how brilliant he is. and to think im having trouble doing a 10 min lecture...