Technical development

1. Technical Development
BY BRIENNA HICK

2. Game Programmer
A video game programmer is a software engineer
who creates the code that makes a video game run.
Due to the complexity of today's video games, most
programmers specialize in one area of game
programming, such as audio or graphics.

3. John Romero
Alfonso John Romero is a director, designer, programmer, and
developer in the video game industry. 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".

4. Lead Game Programmer
The Lead Programmer leads the programming team
responsible for creating all the computer code which
runs and controls a game. Programmers have various
roles and specialisms including AI (artificial
intelligence), game engine development, user
interface, tools development and physics.