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		screye on Sept 21, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Microsoft to acquire ZeniMax Media and Bethesda So... Carmack's pull as an individual among tech folks, is unrivaled in gaming. I can bet that many people would willingly taken pay cuts (or more-likely skipped on pay bumps) to work for a team led by Carmack. Almost all of the other pop-culture figures in game development such as Todd Howard, Kojima and the like are designers, producers or story writers. Carmack is the only one that is a proper coding guy. ______ Maybe Carmack comes back to lead Windows mixed reality ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ and PCVR ? True wishful thinking right here.

kridsdale1 on Sept 21, 2020 [–]

I think a few of Nintendo's star players are (and were) coders as well as designers going back to the assembly days.

PetitPrince on Sept 22, 2020 | [–]

Late Satoru Iwata famously coded Pokemon Stadium battle system without design document, only by looking at the gameboy source code. He later became Nintendo CEO.

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