John Romero, co-founder of id Software and designer on many classic titles such as
Doom,
Quake and
Wolfenstein, has announced he will publish his memoirs on January 10, 2023. Titled
Doom Guy: Life in First Person, the book will cover Romero's career from his earliest days programming in his garage to co-founding id Software, and details from his personal life such as his falling out with id co-founder John Carmack. It will also detail his difficult childhood growing up with "an alcoholic father, a racist grandfather who did not approve of Romero’s parents’ mixed-race coupling, and a grandmother who once ran a brothel in Mexico," and how software development helped him escape that. "Code and games changed the trajectory of my life," said Romero in a recent Tweet about the book, also describing it as "a positive story of gratitude for a life in games."
Romero is currently working on
Sigil 2, a game made up of
Doom II modded levels. You can download the original
Sigil, made up of
Doom mods, from Romero's website
here.
You can pre-order
Doom Guy: Life in First Person on
Amazon.