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Nerve ___MASK8___ , LLC is an American video game developer that was co - founded by ex - id ___MASK8___ ___MASK48___ Brandon James . Many of the original employees at Nerve were previously employed by Rogue Entertainment , another U . S . based software company . Softdisk is a ___MASK8___ and Internet company based in Shreveport , Louisiana . Founded in 1981 , its original products were disk magazines ( which they termed " magazettes ", for " magazine on diskette "). They were affiliated and partly owned by paper magazine " Softalk " at their founding , but survived its demise . Dallas is a major city in the state of Texas and is the largest urban center of the fourth most populous metropolitan area in the United States . The city proper ranks ninth in the U . S . and third in Texas after Houston and San Antonio . The city ' s prominence arose from its historical importance as a center for the ___MASK29___ and cotton industries , and its position along numerous railroad lines . The bulk of the city is in Dallas County , of which it is the county seat ; however , sections of the city are located in Collin , Denton , Kaufman , and Rockwall counties . According to the 2010 United States Census , the city had a population of 1 , 197 , 816 . The United States Census Bureau ' s estimate for the city ' s population increased to 1 , 300 , 092 as of July 1 , 2015 . Adrian Carmack ( born May 5 , 1969 ) is one of the four founders of id ___MASK8___ , along with Tom Hall , John Romero , and John Carmack ( no relation ). He had worked there as an artist . He was a major stock owner of id ___MASK8___ until he left the company . Tom A . Hall ( born September 2 , 1964 ) is a game designer born in Wisconsin . He attended the University of Wisconsin  Madison , where he earned a B . S . in ___MASK12___ . Rogue Entertainment was a ___MASK33___ game developer based in Dallas , Texas , which was active in the late 1990s . It was founded by Rich Fleider , Steve Maines , and Jim Molinets in 1994 . Rogue Entertainment ' s office was in the same building as id ___MASK8___ , all of their games used game engines created by id ___MASK8___ , and two of their games were expansions for id ___MASK8___ ' s Quake series of games . Many former Rogue Entertainment employees moved to Nerve ___MASK8___ after Rogue Entertainment shut down . A ___MASK92___ developer is a ___MASK8___ developer that specializes in ___MASK92___ development  the process and related disciplines of creating video games . A game developer can range from one person who undertakes all tasks to a large business with ___MASK48___ responsibilities split between individual disciplines , such as programming , design , art , testing , etc . Most game development companies have ___MASK92___ ___MASK41___ financial and usually marketing support . Self - funded developers are known as independent or indie developers and usually make indie games . John D . Carmack ( born August 20 , 1970 ) is an American game programmer , ___MASK50___ and virtual reality engineer . He co - founded id ___MASK8___ . Carmack was the lead programmer of the id video games " Commander Keen ", " Wolfenstein 3D ", " Doom ", " Quake ", " Rage " and their sequels . Carmack is best known for his innovations in 3D graphics , such as his famous Carmack ' s Reverse algorithm for shadow volumes , and is also a rocketry enthusiast and the founder and lead engineer of Armadillo Aerospace . In August 2013 , Carmack took the position of CTO at Oculus VR , which in 2014 became a subsidiary of Facebook . Alfonso John Romero ( born October 28 , 1967 ) is an American director , designer , programmer , and developer in the ___MASK83___ . He is best known as a co - founder of id Software and designer for many of their games , including " Wolfenstein 3D ", " Dangerous Dave ", "", " 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 is credited with coining the FPS multiplayer term " deathmatch ". id ___MASK8___ LLC ( formerly id ___MASK8___ , Inc ., ; see Company name ) is an American video game developer headquartered in Dallas , Texas . The company was founded on February 1 , 1991 , by four members of the computer company Softdisk , programmers John Carmack and John Romero , game designer Tom Hall , and artist Adrian Carmack ( no relation to John Carmack ). Business manager Jay Wilbur was also involved .