Compulsion Games Community Manager Katie Robinson Claims "I Hate Gamers" After Previously Claiming "White Male Gamers Were A Mis...
Compulsion Games Community Manager Katie Robinson recently claimed, "I hate gamers." A screenshot from South of Midnight (TBA), Compulsion Games As brought to public attention by X user ScreamerRSA and further highlighted by former World of Warcraft Team L...
Their entire industry was created by white male gamers. If white male gamers never existed, neither would video games.
John Carmack did more for gaming than anyone else by a loooooooong shot. White and male.
And autistic.
One of us! One of us!
I would argue that Roberta & Ken Williams did more with the founding of Sierra.
Roberta Williams invented the graphical adventure games and made the transition from a solo developer to a team lead.
Ken Williams invented the game publishing and retail industry. Before he drove around to LA stores dropping off a plastic bag with a printed page and a disk inside for local stores to sell on consignment, there wasn't any market to sell games.
Both Ken and Roberta were absolutely a team, and their market was 100% white men who owned PCs.
I don't know much of the history that far back. Carmack certainly made the most advancements in bringing 3D to gaming and to this day many things are based on his principles but expanded.
Carmack basically invented the FPS genre as we know it.
As much as I appreciate System Shock and the 3D Engine used by Looking Glass, ID Software's Doom took the world by storm and demonstrated that the ShareWare publishg model could make real money.
Carmack was the brains behind the raycasting Doom engine and Doom could not exist without him.
FPS took off partly because the development costs were lower, assuming that you already had an engine.