Tim Sweeney

a game player with 20 teraflops of computing power in your device and say, oh, that's not very impressive. But it was amazing at the time.

a game player with 20 teraflops of computing power in your device and say, oh, that's not very impressive. But it was amazing at the time.

You feel that you're there. Yeah. Especially when you turn the lights down in your room and you turn the sound up on your speakers and it will scare you. And you'll feel like, you know, that fireball that's coming at you is going to kill you. That was an amazing time because we hadn't experienced that before. There was nothing like that.

You feel that you're there. Yeah. Especially when you turn the lights down in your room and you turn the sound up on your speakers and it will scare you. And you'll feel like, you know, that fireball that's coming at you is going to kill you. That was an amazing time because we hadn't experienced that before. There was nothing like that.

You feel that you're there. Yeah. Especially when you turn the lights down in your room and you turn the sound up on your speakers and it will scare you. And you'll feel like, you know, that fireball that's coming at you is going to kill you. That was an amazing time because we hadn't experienced that before. There was nothing like that.

You know, you'd watch a movie, a scary movie or whatever, you know, it was just, this thing that was happening. This was you. This was you in a 3D world.

You know, you'd watch a movie, a scary movie or whatever, you know, it was just, this thing that was happening. This was you. This was you in a 3D world.

You know, you'd watch a movie, a scary movie or whatever, you know, it was just, this thing that was happening. This was you. This was you in a 3D world.

Well, at first I was really depressed. Because the wizardry of Doom especially was so incredible that I gave up on programming for like six months. I was like, I don't know if I'll be able to compete with this. I have no idea what we're going to do. We just keep making 2D games and hope that the business goes on. But that was the nature of Carmack's wizardry. He had done things that were like...

Well, at first I was really depressed. Because the wizardry of Doom especially was so incredible that I gave up on programming for like six months. I was like, I don't know if I'll be able to compete with this. I have no idea what we're going to do. We just keep making 2D games and hope that the business goes on. But that was the nature of Carmack's wizardry. He had done things that were like...

Well, at first I was really depressed. Because the wizardry of Doom especially was so incredible that I gave up on programming for like six months. I was like, I don't know if I'll be able to compete with this. I have no idea what we're going to do. We just keep making 2D games and hope that the business goes on. But that was the nature of Carmack's wizardry. He had done things that were like...

not just one innovation leap ahead, but like a dozen simultaneously, interplaying in a way that you couldn't pick them apart into their component pieces. But a funny thing happened. Michael Abrash, a long-timer in computer graphics, wrote a book on the techniques for 3D graphics and texture mapping.

not just one innovation leap ahead, but like a dozen simultaneously, interplaying in a way that you couldn't pick them apart into their component pieces. But a funny thing happened. Michael Abrash, a long-timer in computer graphics, wrote a book on the techniques for 3D graphics and texture mapping.

not just one innovation leap ahead, but like a dozen simultaneously, interplaying in a way that you couldn't pick them apart into their component pieces. But a funny thing happened. Michael Abrash, a long-timer in computer graphics, wrote a book on the techniques for 3D graphics and texture mapping.

And he wrote some articles in one of the programming magazines of the day and explained it and showed assembly code to do texture mapping, drawing these 3D graphics on the screen. And it was actually really simple stuff. I was like, oh, I can do that. And so a bunch of us at Epic independently went off and started writing our own 3D graphics code to figure it out.

And he wrote some articles in one of the programming magazines of the day and explained it and showed assembly code to do texture mapping, drawing these 3D graphics on the screen. And it was actually really simple stuff. I was like, oh, I can do that. And so a bunch of us at Epic independently went off and started writing our own 3D graphics code to figure it out.

And he wrote some articles in one of the programming magazines of the day and explained it and showed assembly code to do texture mapping, drawing these 3D graphics on the screen. And it was actually really simple stuff. I was like, oh, I can do that. And so a bunch of us at Epic independently went off and started writing our own 3D graphics code to figure it out.

And we found at one point we had a number of people dabbling in this, doing different parts of it. And at that point we decide, okay, this is 3D graphics. and 3D gaming is going to completely change the world. We need to go all in on this. And so we took the best people from our best 2D game development teams and put them all together to make a 3D game.

And we found at one point we had a number of people dabbling in this, doing different parts of it. And at that point we decide, okay, this is 3D graphics. and 3D gaming is going to completely change the world. We need to go all in on this. And so we took the best people from our best 2D game development teams and put them all together to make a 3D game.

And we found at one point we had a number of people dabbling in this, doing different parts of it. And at that point we decide, okay, this is 3D graphics. and 3D gaming is going to completely change the world. We need to go all in on this. And so we took the best people from our best 2D game development teams and put them all together to make a 3D game.