Sandy Petersen 🪔
@SandyofCthulhu · Jun 24, 2026
How Quake ruined id Software.
There has been a lot of praise of Quake of late, with its 30th anniversary, and it's deserved. Quake is an amazing feat of art, programming, and design. I worked on it, and everything came together almost perfectly from all of us. We ended up with
Elon Musk
@elonmusk
But Quake was an incredible game. Great products are not made without pain and extreme dedication.
06:12 PM · June 24, 2026 · 146.5K views
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