Another game related post. I try not to post too many of those, however it just so happens that this week those are the stories that came up for the site. This was actually the post I had coincidentally intended to put up yesterday before I heard about the death of Ralph Baer, but that was obviously much more important.

Anyway, you may notice the new wallpaper for the site. It looks like random code, however it is in fact the actual C programming code for the legendary 1993 PC game DOOM.

Programmed by John Carmack, who as far as I can tell is the only person to become famous for their coding skill, DOOM was the game that introduced gaming to a larger audience. It wasn’t the first to use the first-person approach to gaming, but it was easily the most effective (and he programmed Wolfenstein 3D as well). He is one of the foremost authorities on code and design, and he recently left id Software, where he had been since before DOOM was released, to work for Oculus in developing their virtual-reality headset Rift. It is his belief in the project that gives me the belief that there is something viable in it.