Organizers for the 2010 Game Developers Conference announced today that programming legend John Carmack will be honored at this year's Choice Awards with the Lifetime Achievement Award. Former Lifetime Achievement recipients Sid Meier, Shigeru Miyamoto, and Will Wright will present Carmack with the award on March 11, during the Choice Awards, which will be hosted by Disney's Warren Spector.
The Lifetime Achievement Award "recognizes the career and achievements of developers who have made an indelible impact on the craft of game development, as Carmack has done for his more than two decades of groundbreaking technical contributions, and his role establishing the first-person shooter genre with landmark titles like Doom and Quake."
Carmack is one of the true industry luminaries in the video game business. He co-founded id in 1991, helped pioneer real-time 3D graphics, and essentially invented the modern-day first-person shooter genre with the PC game Wolfenstein 3D in 1992. He and his id colleagues also pushed networked multiplayer gaming forward with the release of Doom in 1993.
"It's no exaggeration to say that John Carmack and id Software have had a monumental influence on all modern 3D games, but especially the first-person shooter genre," said Meggan Scavio, Event Director of GDC. "John is one of the key figures in the history of video games, and we're delighted to be giving him the Lifetime Achievement award this year."
