Trying to get people to do something they didn’t want to do would not make a great game. Still, I imagined how Carmack would respond if his tech plans were shot down by Dave, Sandy, or American. At best, he would ignore them and walk away. After taking a whole year to get his programming vision together, Carmack was now entertaining talk about stopping any similar exploration of design using his engine. It was a painful moment for me. In that room, with everyone standing around, I realized that our shared vision was over. After five years of dedicating equal importance to his tech and my
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