John Romero

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 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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionInventor
Date of Birth28 October 1967
CountryUnited States of America
I completely love playing and designing games and always will. I am so into games that I listen to game music all day. That may sound strange, but you can guarantee I'm a hardcore gamer and would never let you down by designing a crappy title.
I'm a hardcore gamer and would never let you down by designing a crappy title.
You want stealth? Be a rogue in 'World of Warcraft'.
Daikatana will be the greatest game of all time
In marketing I've seen only one strategy that can't miss - and that is to market to your best customers first, your best prospects second and the rest of the world last.
You might not think that programmers are artists, but programming is an extremely creative profession. Its logic-based creativity.
If you walk into CompUSA or Babbage's and see the vast array of game titles on the shelf, chances are that 95% of those titles are not worth playing.