GAME DESIGNER

Adrian Carmack

1969 - Today

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Adrian Carmack (born May 5, 1969) is an American video game artist and one of four co-founders of id Software, along with Tom Hall, John Romero, and John Carmack (no relation). The founders met while working at Softdisk's Gamer's Edge division and started id in 1991. 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Adrian Carmack has received more than 475,627 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Adrian Carmack is the 72nd most popular game designer (down from 64th in 2019).

Memorability Metrics

  • 480k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 31.12

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.06

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.52

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among GAME DESIGNERS

Among game designers, Adrian Carmack ranks 72 out of 77. Before him are Jeff Kaplan, American McGee, Tim Cain, Johan Andersson, Jonathan Blow, and Toby Gard. After him are Rob Pardo, Matt Harding, Minh Le, Bruce Straley, and Mike Harrington.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1969, Adrian Carmack ranks 971. Before him are Jens Eriksen, Simon Grayson, Ippei Watanabe, Helen Kelesi, Sanath Jayasuriya, and Sheila Taormina. After him are Andrew Breitbart, Takuma Koga, Christian Moser, Takayoshi Amma, Sonia O'Sullivan, and Sadhana Sargam.

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