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Category: Id Software games

Category: Id Software games

Category: Id Software games

Id Software LLC is an American video game development company with its headquarters in Richardson, Texas.

The founders of Id Software met in the offices of Softdisk developing multiple games for Softdisk's monthly publishing.

When Romero saw the demo, entitled " Dangerous Dave in Copyright Infringement ", he realized that Carmack's breakthrough could have potential, the team that would later form Id Software immediately began moonlighting, going so far as to " borrow " company computers that were not being used over the weekends and at nights while they designed their own remake of Super Mario Bros. 3.

As a result, the Id Software team began the development of Commander Keen, a Mario-style side-scrolling game for the PC, once again " borrowing " company computers to work on it at odd hours at the lake house at which they lived in Shreveport, Louisiana.

On February 1, 1991, Id Software was founded.

The shareware distribution method was initially employed by Id Software through Apogee Software to sell their products, such as the Commander Keen, Wolfenstein and Doom games.

Only later ( about the time of the release of Doom II ) did Id Software release their games via more traditional shrink-wrapped boxes in stores ( through other game publishers ).

Id Software has moved from the " cube-shaped " Mesquite office, to a newly built location in Richardson, Texas.

On June 24, 2009, it was announced that Id Software had been acquired by ZeniMax Media.

The deal would eventually affect publishing deals Id Software had before the acquisition, namely Rage, which was being published through Electronic Arts.

Starting with their first shareware game series, Commander Keen, Id Software has licensed the core source code for the game, or what is more commonly known as the engine.

Brainstormed by John Romero, Id Software held a weekend session titled " The Id Summer Seminar " in the summer of 1991 with prospective buyers including Scott Miller, George Broussard, Ken Rogoway, Jim Norwood and Todd Replogle.

One of the nights, Id Software put together an impromptu game known as " Wac-Man " to demonstrate not only the technical prowess of the Keen engine, but also how it worked internally.

Id Software has developed their own game engine for each of their titles when moving to the next technological milestone, including Commander Keen, Wolfenstein 3D, Shadowcaster, DOOM, Quake, Quake II, and Quake III, as well as technology used in making Doom 3.

According to Eurogamer. net, " Id Software has been synonymous with PC game engines since the concept of a detached game engine was first popularised ".

In conjunction with his self-professed affinity for sharing source code, John Carmack has open-sourced most of the major Id Software engines under the GPL license.

Id Software publicly stated they would not support the Wii console ( possibly due to technical limitations ), although they have since indicated that they may release titles on that platform ( although it would be limited their games released during the 1990s ).

Since Id Software revealed their engine Id Tech 5, they call their engines " Id Tech ", followed by a version number.